And I was in a 1970s station wagon, orange and white checkered taxi, and I come in from Amman, Jordan, it's about 14 hours.
Whenever I take a taxi home from the city center to Etiler, I pass along the otobahn through an Alphaville landscape of Trump Towers, kiddy-neon malls and Carrefour Express supermarkets.
Police spotted the stolen taxi going south on I-95 around 8:15 a.m.
The taxi medallion people, whom I discussed here won.
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Once I French-kissed a male friend of mine in Shanghai right before I got into a taxi.
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Instead of loading into an armored car, I secured a local taxi to drive into the city.
"I learnt a bit about what went on that day when I was in the taxi from the taxi driver, " he said.
The taxi driver was nearly hysterical, convinced I would be eaten by a tiger.
Maybe if I had got in a taxi with her she would be still here.
The next afternoon two of the children showed up at my hotel to give me some papers I had left behind in taxi.
"Rather charming, " I thought as I stomped around looking for a taxi.
Sensing some misdeed afoot, I strode away looking for another taxi.
He gave me refuge until the trio scarpered (probably to join in the festivities) and I was able to order another taxi to take me back to my hotel.
Having watched several accidents already--including a rear-ender involving my 9-year-old son and a kid driving a bright yellow sled with "Taxi" written on the side--I grasped the physics of the situation.
Four years after 9-11, I was in an almost fatal taxi crash, sitting in the back of a taxi, as the driver purposefully careened through red lights in the middle of New York City.
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Living in Saudi in a wheelchair and not being able to drive can be annoying but, I must have trained all the taxi drivers how to dimantle my wheelchair and sit it on the back seat in record time, and how helpful they are!
No matter: Many hours later, I limped into Roses, hopped into a taxi to take me the last twisting miles to the restaurant, and arrived panting on the restaurant's doorstep only 90 minutes past the reservation time.
It's dark by the time my taxi pulls up at the shopping district of Riyadh, where I join the rest of my team.
"Never listen to a taxi driver, sir, " he said, before suggesting that I would be unlikely to do it again, wouldn't I, and delivering a slap to his wrist with a meaningful glance.
And yet I often wait for half an hour at peak times cursing taxi cab service in San Francisco.
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"I even stay until after midnight for my friends who are taxi and limousine drivers, because they have to feed their families, too, " he said.
''I'm satisfied that we have essentially spoken to every taxi and delivery driver who was working in the area on that Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Mr. SAIF JASSIM (Taxi Driver, Iraq): (Through translator) All the petrol I'm getting is for our generator at home.
Yet now that the Shuttle has been scuttled and a proposed Ares I Constellation rocket program has been canceled, other than hitching Russian taxi rides, our astronauts currently have no way to get there and back.
Why should I pay you for the privilege of driving a cab in your city, the taxi driver asks, when my competitor is free from such obligations?
"I hate football with every bone in my body, " said Blessed, an Accra taxi driver, who vowed never to catch the Nations Cup bug.
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