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The Cut
Tuesday 4:35am: I am out hacking the streets of San Francisco early, again. Something woke me up. A mental vortex emanating from my previous cab shift. A thought popped into my head during half sleep...
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The Phoenix of San Francisco
It’s 4:15am, and Alex has been a good boy. Yes, your driver’s been going into work earlier, and staying out later, milking Citizen Cab 26’s 3:45 medallion for all that she is worth. Well, sorta. It’s...
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The Navel of a Hack
It’s 4:15am, and my new “usual” start time. I got through any drama back in the office quickly, and with my head down. Sleep was fleeting last night and I’m not in the mood. Already out on the streets...
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Juanita & the Carmageddon
Thursday Well, Alex has been a good boy. He’s been consistently rolling into the Citizen’s Cab lot around 4:15am, and bringing it back just before 26’s 3:45pm pumpkin time. And it seems the shoe fits....
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#DeleteUber
It’s Monday here in Citizen’s Cab world, my first day back on the job after a crazy weekend that saw the entire world protesting Herr Presidente’s Muslim ban at many a major airport. Taxi drivers in...
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Hollywood Lost
It’s noon, there are helicopters overhead, and traffic jams backing up Mission Street all the way to Division. It seems to be all about the left lanes feeding onto Van Ness, which I HAD planned to...
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Arleta Queen of Appalatchya
Well, I’ve been gearing up for this for two or three years now, watching the taxi business as it’s taken a turn onto some dead end road in low gear, sputtering towards death by a thousand empty back...
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The Rodent Zone
Thursday High noon: I’m rolling Citizen’s Cab 1015 west up Market, approaching San Francisco’s Westfield Mall – flush at this hour with international tourists and suburbanites of means. Hey. What is...
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Sheldon Katz for San Francisco Mayor!
Non sequitur intro: San Francisco, 8th & Market, a hand rises in the air. A Citizen’s Cab rolling west, 1015, hits his flashers, and pulls to a stop up in the lane alongside. Out scrambling jumps...
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Chop Suey Was Invented in San Francisco
Or, maybe not. It sounds intriguing though. The story goes that it was a Gold Rush era thing. You see, Chinatown is proximate to The Bay downtown. And so, the docks of yore. Once upon a time (okay,...
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The Mayor is Dead, Long Live Madame Mayor!
Tuesday The news of the morning is that San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is dead at 65. Dropped in an aisle last night while shopping at his neighborhood Safeway. A pretty big surprise seeing that headline...
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Fiacre, Patron Saint of Cabs
It’s been a slow week for cabbing. Real slow. And really something of a head job. By random strokes of luck, each morning I’ll crack my (gas, gate, tips, bribes) nut by 10am – the litmus test for...
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No Horns Were Honked
“There are no laws in this town, anymore. There is only what you can get away with.” – Alex SacK That’s what I tell my passengers when invariably making that illegal U on Market in front of the...
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