Cab Ride 7

'Where ya headed?'

'5th Avenue. Cinnderellas.'

'The bun bar? Jeez, you're my fourth today.'

'That so?'

'Heck, yeah. Some weird chick in dungarees, then a business guy, then some wasters from one of those grunge bands, yanno, like Nirvana. I'm a people watcher, see.'

'That so?'

'Oh yeah. Ain't nothin' escapes my beady eye, and when I'm done drivin', I write it all out, like a novel. Some day I'm gonna be a famous author.'

'That—'

'Problem is, do I set it in space, in the past, or the dinosaur age? Or ...