Last Wednesday a passenger in a taxi heading for Stafford station leaned
over to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The
driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches
from a large plate glass window. For a few moments everything was silent in the cab.
Then the shaking driver said "Are you OK? I'm so sorry, but you scared the
daylights out of me."
The badly shaken passenger apologized to the driver and said, "I didn't
realize that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle someone so badly."
The driver replied, "No, no, I'm the one who is sorry, it's entirely my
fault. Today is my very first day driving a cab; I've been driving a hearse for 25 years."
