Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie –“Terminated: The Bernie Lomax Chronicles”

There’s a girl throwing up on the floor in the back of my taxi, but the guy with her assures me that it’s no big deal because she doesn’t have anything else left in her stomach. “It’s just a little water,” he tells me. I’ve never kicked a person out of my cab and I’ve never made a customer clean up their own vomit, but I’m pretty sure that if he’s wrong I will unfortunately only be able to choose one of these options. Luckily, (for them as well as me) the ride to their hotel is uneventful. Once outside, the guy puts the high-heeled shoes that he’s been carrying on top of the car in order to free his hands to help the girl get out. And when I ...