How air conditioning works in a stinky driver’s taxi: Unless the air conditioning is set at a sub-zero freezing temperature where bacteria hibernate, what air conditioning effectively does is recycle and evenly distribute the air under the taxi driver’s stinky armpits in the front and back of the taxi. Being human, you most probably rely on aerobic respiration for living, in which case, the stinky, poisoned oxygen that is transported throughout your body kills you. A dirty and painful death.
August 29th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
It is equally death-worthy when said atmosphere is dense with cheap cigarette smoke, due to firmly rolled-up windows, and your tender contact-lensed eyes weep to expel the toxins.
I wonder if your atmosphere and my atmosphere will someday be combined in a poisonous yellow car looking for work on the overcrowded streets of our city….
Despite the dasardly journey to see you, I had a lovely time today. xo
August 29th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
…who cares that vision took
a back seat when smell
drove instead, laughing and
stickikng its arm out the
window making rude gestures
at the other senses?
terry pratchettt
August 29th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Poor sensitive, Chloe!
Actually, it’s not just taxi drivers. Every so often I discover which of my fellow passengers on the C-Train thinks he doesn’t need deoderant. It’s not a very fun gme, and I’d really like to stop palying.
August 29th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
If you consider this bad, how about being in a bus full of such horible smeels? Ι hope you could take a long bath and get rid of his stinky poisoned oxygen remains on your hair and body
August 29th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
I hope they don’t charge extra for “Stinky Cabs”.
-Walter
August 29th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
what a lovely mental image i now have. lol thanks!! xx
August 29th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to take a cab again…ugh
Whatcha reading?
August 29th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
joanna
me too! and i haven’t posted about it because i wrote this one in the taxi and then my sister came. I don’t want you to think my most vivd impression of the day was the stinky driver!
sophie
is it possible to quote something so beautiful after what i wrote?! that’s because you are wonderful.
Crag
some people just don’t believe in deodorant. Convert people!It’s just glands, you know! Or else we are all going to burn in the hell of our sweat.
vista
a whole bus! noooooo. i’d rather walk.
Walter
no, but you do tend to run out of the taxi asap and don’t expect any change back.
Gina
see? that’s what friends are for.
wcdixon
you mean the photograph?
at the time i was reading Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase
August 29th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
yes, in the photo…thank you - was it taken recently (and thus reading the book recently)? Or in wilder and more uninhibited days?
August 29th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
sexy
August 29th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
yes it was a couple of weeks back, in Kythira.
August 29th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
And I was thinking of ‘Sputnik Sweetheart’ (re: uninhibited) - sorry, wasting comment space here…lol
August 29th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
and what were you reading there?
xx
August 29th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Hello sweets!! I got your postcard! I will scan and post it this week.
So, shall we do some BIG disturbance to my universe and give it a make-over?
love lots,
missy xx
August 29th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
From now on, carry a little dangly car air freshener, that attaches from the rearview mirror (do you have these in Greece?) with you and hand it to him when you pay your fare.
If you don’t have them, let me know. I can send you some Canadian pine scented ones
P.S. While you were driving in said taxi, you were thinking “I’m going to blog about you, Mister smelly armpits….”
again.
August 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Hilarious!
Did you take the pic?
August 29th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
I guess I should read comments before posting . . . when will I ever learn?
August 29th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
LOL- god I’ve so been there…
August 29th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Don’t you wish our noses had an auto-plug feature to allow for instant blocking when an incoming stench is sensed?? I’ll start the patent… xoS
August 30th, 2006 at 2:00 am
Hmmm, interesting mental image you have given me there, Chloe !! Oh, by the way, thank you so much for the postcard … it arrived today. I really must get all the cards I have been receiving scanned and put them on my blog … I’ve been a very lazy girl !!
Have a wonderful day.
Take care, Meow
August 30th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Yep, as several have already commented, this rule applies to all forms of public transport. Actually, it also applies to private transport, and I have heard of people, unable to take a shower (for example, during a very stressful day at work), who have then effectively committed suicide by driving themselves home without opening the windows of their car.
August 30th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long while. May I suggest that you carry a scented handkerchief or a small vial of Cologne so that you made dab your top lip up with something pleasant to smell.