We ran into a real character of a cab driver on the way to class yesterday. Here are some highlights from our conversation:
1) He has two kids, who live with their mother, Antonia, an Italian-American, in Brooklyn. Antonia had "short hair, like man". Antonia used to be a lesbian, but wanted kids. He said he told her, "you want kids, I give you kids". And he did.
2) At the time, Antonia had an African-American girlfriend named "Cookie". Said cabbie, "I f****ed them both".
3) He worked as a cabbie in NYC, but on the side he ran a cigarette smuggling operation. How much money can you make from smuggling cigarettes into NYC? He cleared $4,000/week and drove a Beemer.
This is why people visiting him from Jordan would ask, "he's only been in America for four years - how this motherf***er get this stuff"?
4) It sounded like his cigarette smuggling operation got shut down by the authorities.
5) He once lost $40K gambling at Mohegan Sun.
6) While living in NYC, he didn't dress like he does in Jordan. Instead, he dressed all blinged out, including gold chains, etc. Said cabbie, "I look like n****r".
7) He wants to go back to the US, but not to NYC. Instead, he wants to go to the Southern US, where "women believe anything you say".
Hil~~~a~~rious.
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