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Of course I am - one colleague of mine told me about the cabbie whose cab he jumped into and said "take me to gran via, and hurry"! "Where's that", the cabbie asked? Now "gran via" is in the center of madrid, it's the old central commerical street, and nowadays contains all the cinemas and theatres, and it leads to the square in front of the town hall that is geographically the center of madrid, and of spain, being marked on the pavement with the "kilometer zero" sign. You simply can't not know where it is.

"How long have you been in madrid", my colelague asked. "One day", the cabbie replied.

Cab licences are limited in number to a fixed quanbreasty, and pbutted on from father to son, or bought and sold, so the people who own the licence make a fortune and sit back while they hire somebody from out in the countryside to drive the cab for them, at peanut wages.

Then there was the cabbie who took three hours to deliver my mother to my flat from the airport, about twenty minutes away normally. He rang three times from payboxes to ask for directions (that was before mobile phones, I guess). Eventually I went to meet him, at a place that he did know. No, he couldn't read a map. My directions over the telephone were kind of predicated on him being able to look up street names in the index of the city A-Z. It was clear that he either couldn't spell or couldn't read, or both. Or couldn't see.

Nice chap, I'm sure!

I took a minicab from london to reading recently, while I was doing some lecturing there. The cab driver was competent enough, but it turned out he was actually a psychiatrist, specialising in relaxation therapy - you know, aromas, music, and such. He worked as a minicab driver to make ends meet while getting his "practice" going.

Or maybe he was the patient of the psychiatrist. It was not very clear to me.

Oh, I drift your catch, all right. I'm just not bothered. When something is funny, I laugh. When it's silly, I say so.

Peter