To The Bone

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Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers

A pair of conversations with a pair of drivers leads to more than a pair of insights

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Mar 26, 2024
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A person scrolling on their phone in a cab.
Don’t be this person.

Always talk to cabbies. Always. Even if they’re rideshare drivers. Maybe especially if they’re rideshare drivers.

I’ve always done this, long before rideshare or smart phones existed, long before I was a newspaper reporter — and that goes way back to the 1980s. It just always seemed polite, and, if the drivers want to talk (sometime…

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