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I’m mildly over the moon–my company just announced that we would *not* in fact be having pay cuts or furloughs. This is specifically for the branches that fall under our category, and I couldn’t be happier. They’re not even reducing our paid time off accrual. Cool beans!
SF cab drivers are perhaps one of the most interesting groups of people you’ll ever meet. Personally, I love them, as I am keen on taking long walks around the City soused as can be, and barhopping with abandon, and they are always readily available to take my inebriated ass home. True, there are some who just quietly and kindly deposit you at your desired intersection. But others are this sort of quirky, curmudgeonly, liberal, loquacious lot that always like to put in their two cents about politics, pop culture, philosophy, or this and that, and I’ve had many an interesting chat with one.
One guy mentioned how the Borg in “Star Trek” are actually a model species, because they take the best parts of every species they encounter and integrate it into their own. It is, of course, the fact that they do so by tyrannical force that makes them bad, though.
Another guy brought up “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck in comparison to current times, which was summer reading for my junior year AP English, and which I hadn’t through of in years.
One guy picked me up the same day that psycho Christian assassinated that abortion doctor, and we discussed how antithetical it is to believe in a higher power and yet be willing to resort to murder in the supposed name of your beliefs.
Who knew that you could get not just a ride home, but a nice chat, too, for your money.
