The Cabby as Borscht Belt Sociologist

By Nicholas Stix


I was riding tonight with a cabby I've been with before. He was talking about problems car services have, that make them less lucrative than you might think. For one thing, it's hard getting guys who will come in every day, to work 12 hour shifts. I suggested that while in many parts of the country, you might find lots of native Americans willing to work that hard, in New York, the native-born are a bit, shall we say, work shy. He agreed, adding,

“Like I always say, in the Rockaways, there are four jobs: policeman, fireman, sanitation man, and workmen's comp.”