“Dude, it takes forever to get a cab out here on Friday and Saturday nights.”
August 27th, 2008
“Son of a bitch, you’re running up the meter!”27 comments
August 20th, 2008
"Hey bro, remember me? You wrote that story about me in the paper."3 comments
August 13th, 2008
“It’s the Californians, man, the Californians are the worst.”15 comments
August 6th, 2008
The middle-aged man I picked up at Vendetta is in a hyperactively verbose lather ...0 comments
July 23rd, 2008
When I step into the obese old woman's apartment5 comments
July 16th, 2008
The obese old woman at Fred Meyer has a bad hip and a wheelchair...8 comments
July 9th, 2008
“...I need to take a shower first and wash all of this blood off.”6 comments
July 2nd, 2008
“So I’ve got these two women in the back of my cab who just refuse to get out...”8 comments
June 25th, 2008
“My friend’s getting divorced, and he’s really drunk,” says the bartender...8 comments
June 18th, 2008
There’s nothing like a good Friday night, and I’m referring to the money.3 comments
[January 9th, 2008]
“Dude, it takes forever to get a cab out here on Friday and Saturday nights.”
I picked the guy up at a bar in Northeast Portland that, by a quirk of the company’s arbitrary zone boundaries, happens to be a mere three blocks away from a zone where you can get a cab three or four times more quickly.
“It’s just because I’m small-time out here, man,” he continues. “I know how it works, believe me, I know. Nobody gives a damn about the working man, you’ve gotta have money to get a cab, I bet that downtown you can get a cab just as fast as lightning!”
“Actually, that’s not really—“
“I know how it works,” he cuts me off. “Me, I’m just some guy who works for a living, but Pat Benatar gets a cab whenever she wants.”
“Well, you know, I think Pat Benatar doesn’t—“
“Oh yeah, Pat Benatar doesn’t wait long for a cab. Pat Benatar calls a cab and they put it out and you guys all run to get her!”
“I can tell you how—”
“Yeah, you guys all just want to get Pat Benatar, I know how it works—”
“Listen!” I snap. “If you’d just shut up about Pat fucking Benatar for 45 seconds, I could tell you how to get a cab faster! It’s just that your zone—”
“I’m not really interested in all that technical stuff,” he drones on. “But Pat Benatar....”
I crank the stereo.
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