Conversations With My Taxi Driver, 5/ 9/06

[d_aulnoy]

"Did ... you just see a man in a tuxedo go by on an electric scooter?" [ this is, by the way, the glorified skateboard with the handle, and not the moped]

"Yep."

"That last bartender mixed awful drinks. Just checking, is all ...."

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[laughinggoddess.livejournal.com]

excellent.

are you still free for a drink this evening? i get out of rehearsal around 9. if not perhaps next week?

my email - laughinggoddess@gmail.com

[(Anonymous)]

Surely some of the NYC doormen also do valet parking? Most of the types I've seen riding motorized razors between door and lot were pretty scruffy, but I wouldn't have thought well-dressed ones were \that/ uncommon....

/CHip

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Between lot and door, I wouldn't have wondered. This guy was on a main avenue commuting home, which, cool, but a bit of cognative dissonance for a girl traveling home around midnight ....

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. I can still imagine \reasons/ (e.g., a musician with a more practical bent than the Sydney symphony players who held up a concert to complain about losing parking privileges in front of the Opera House) but on a main drag it would be a sight.

/CHip