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October 05, 2006
Street smarts
Despite my rugged good looks and take-no-prisoners attitude, I'm more of a "book smart" kind of guy.
Even I got uneasy when, while waiting at a stoplight on Ventura Boulevard around 8:30 p.m., someone started tapping on my passenger-side window.
It was an old lady. I was willing to open the window a crack.
"Can you take me to Reseda Boulevard?" she said.
"No," I replied.
For God's sake, lady, for all you know I could be some kind of crazed maniac who gets his kicks forcing old people to fight, and then posts the whole thing on YouTube.
And how do I know you're not going to stab me, or at the very least talk about your grandkids the whole way there?
So I didn't do my good deed for the day, and maybe I failed some kind of divine test. On the bright side, I still have both my kidneys.
Sometime this week, take your grandparents aside and introduce them to a wonderful thing called a taxi cab - or else the next time you see them may be on YouTube.
Posted by Greg Sidor at October 5, 2006 04:45 AM
Comments
Dude, the same thing happened to me, except it was a smelly, semi-homeless guy.
I did give him a ride. Yes, I had to antiseptically clean my seat.
Probably not a good idea, but it ain't any worse than a career in "journalism," and we all know where that leads.
Posted by: Steven Rosenberg at October 5, 2006 09:57 AM