On 3/29/21 4:06 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:10:30 -0500, Jim Joyce
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 02:55:31 -0400, micky wrote:

Another personal comment. I accepted at least one applicable myth when
I was in college, and when I took a break and drove a cab for a year, I
would see this drivers at a cab stand, outside a downtown hotel, or a
longgg cab line at the airport, while I was cruising and finding fares.
And I wondered why they didn't do what I did. Did they like to relax in
sitting in their cabs. One I finally noticed that for most of these
guys, driving a cab was their second job. They can't work as hard as I
did, when it was my only job.
Speaking of driving a cab, isn't one of the first things you learn is how
to get to any of the local airports? I once took a cab from lower Manhattan
(NYC) to JFK airport and when I looked up we were cruising slowly through a
residential neighborhood somewhere in Queens. The driver was thoroughly
lost and asked to use my smartphone to get directions.
Hey, what's wrong with Queens? Donald Trump was from Queens.

I drove in Chicago, and to get a hack license, in addition to the
drivers license, you had to pass a test on where the airports were,
where the concert halls and stadiums were, where the train stations
(several of them) were, where the big hotels were, where the biggest
tourist sites were. I knew most that stuff anyhow becuase I'd lived in
Chicago for almost 4 years, had a car for one or two, and I like to know
that stuff whether I'm a cabdriver or not.

But someone new to town would have to do some learnin'.


Chicago has a few areas of racist black people who really hate white people.

Traveling those areas will get you killed...especially if your car breaks down.

Even Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a taxpayer-funded armed security service protecting her.