Urban/turban NYC cab drivers cartoon - Roy Delgado

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Last time I was in NYC a couple months or so ago, I took a cab from Penn Station to Sardi's to have a good stiff drink before lunching with Sam Gross.  I grabbed the first cab, the cabbie was wearing a turban . . . nothing wrong with that . . . I had to repeat where I was going five times, finally, finally, real s-l-o-w, I gave him the address and I finally made it . . . what is so amazing is that only in America can you come, do not speak the language, get a job as a cab driver in one of the biggest cities in the world, where you don't know one street from another. . I mean, how in the hell do they do it ? and make money !  without speaking the language and being in a strange city ? !  I gave him a good tip . . it's my kind of guy . . . on top of that, they send money home, regularly, OR, OR they send money to a an organization that sends the money to someone with nefarious plans against trhis country, I took an educated guess and hope he sent it to his poor folks back in Islamabad.

I love this country, no one has an excuse to go hungry.  Too many opportunities. It doesn't take a PhD.  Anyone can make it here if they REALLY want it bad enough.

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" Hope is the power

of being cheerful in circumstances

that we know to be desperate. "

G.K. Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

ENGLISH WRITER, POET AND CRITIC

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" We should never let our fears

hold us back from

pursuing hopes. "

John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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" We must accept finite disappointment,

but we must never lose infinite hope. "

Martin Luther King, 1929 - 1968

AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AND MINISTER

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