Comments on: Driving Miss Desi

By: cobra

cobra — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:05:15 +0000

the best drivers in massachusetts are the desi drivers in cambridge…they’re nice, drive safely and quickly, and do not disturb you. so whoever thinks that the indian/pakistani drivers in boston are crazy needs to get their definition of crazy checked… opinion of cobra cobra cobra cobra

By: Ennis

Ennis — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:47:51 +0000

Driving Miss Daisy is a movie about a woman who hires a driver when she can no longer drive safely. [Roughly]

By: tilo

tilo — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:40:43 +0000

waht’s with the title?

By: indie princess

indie princess — Mon, 01 May 2006 05:35:34 +0000

Re: “…i love the NYC drivers…they’re always very friendly to me..and they’re better drivers than my own mum. so i can deal with it!…”

I love em too. Last time I took a taxi, the driver gave me half of his breakfast sandwich, made Pakistani-style. It was nice and spicy and I was really hungry.

By: hello

hello — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:44:27 +0000

Its safer to play with a loaded gun while high on LSD then it is to ride in a taxi in India according to a study done by Harvard.

Okay, I made that up, but its got to be somewhat true.

By: Sonia

Sonia — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:47:46 +0000

Yo, i haven’t read any comments at all, and somebody probably already mentioned this, but… New York Hack is a blog on blogger.com that details the life of a female cab driver, she’s really interesting and actually recently got a book deal. (Insert your plaigiarism joke here.) I’d hyperlink y’all directly to the blog, but I’m not cool enough. Anyway, y’all should look it up. The author of the blog writes pretty well, and a lot of her stories are really interesting. She actually just mentioned this taxi report herself. aight, peace oh by the way, i love sepia mutiny

By: Pattie Kaur

Pattie Kaur — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:50:59 +0000

i love the NYC drivers…they’re always very friendly to me..and they’re better drivers than my own mum. so i can deal with it!

By: Janeofalltrades

Janeofalltrades — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:28:23 +0000

Most Dangerous jobs in America according to the US Labor Dept 1. Truck driver 2. Farm worker 3. Sales supervisor/proprietor 4. Construction worker 5. Police detective 6. Airplane pilot 7. Security guard 8. Taxicab driver 9. Timber cutter 10. Cashier Firefighter ranked 14.

By the way you are thinking of livery cabs, that is the most dangerous job in NYC. Yellow cabbies are safer. Livery cabbies generally tend to be from South America versus the yellow cab world where people are South Asian.

By: Chris Prabhu

Chris Prabhu — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:28:05 +0000

This is like saying ‘Ambassador is the best car for indian roads, ’cause the roads are so bad!’ The point to note is because of these crzay taxi drivers, who smell, and are never polite, normal citizens who obey traffic laws get into accidents.

By: Ennis

Ennis — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:11:07 +0000

Yeah I'm aware that cabbies have it rough in NYC but like any other occupation it comes with it's hazards. It's the hazards of being in the service business. You will always have bad people to deal with.

I'm stepping out and can't find the quote, but the hazards were quite a bit worse than the average service sector employee - I thought it was a more dangerous profession than being a cop.