On a rainy Friday night on the way to watch the musical Singing in the Rain,
in the cab you start chatting about how bad the weather is. When you first got
in the cab you noticed that the driver looked familiar. But then again since
you usually take a cab when you go to the theater, he could have driven you on
one of those outings.
Drive and stop. Drive and stop. Finally you put down your cell phone
and ask the driver if he thinks it´ll be long before we get to the theater.
Although you have been there before, you try hard to recall the distance but to
no avail.
Enough talking about the traffic and the rain and how crazy people
drive on this day and in this kind of weather, so, you ask a few questions
because he does look so familiar and you want to find out where you know him
from without coming flat out and saying it. Questions like where his stop is, if
he lives in the area, how long he has been a taxi driver and so on.
It just so happens that before he was a taxi driver back in 1982 he
was a bus collector (in Brazil it is not the driver who receives the money, it
is another person.)
Bingo! You know where you have seen him before. Then you asked if he
worked the 325 line and wide eyed he says yes and asks how you knew that. Then
you tell him that you used to take that line to go to work every morning for a
whole year in 1982. Suddenly he says that he thought I looked familiar. He adds
that he only worked that line that year. He is perhaps more amazed than you
are.
36 years later and life makes your paths cross again. What is life´s
intention in doing this?
Written December 7, 2017 Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion
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