One can’t help but wonder certain things…

1. Who are these taxi cab drivers on the phone with all the time? I’d say conservatively 70% of the taxi cab rides I take the drivers are on the phone for the whole ride. Now I’m not exactly a ‘phone person’, I’m lucky if I spend an hour on the phone a day …Hell I’ll be honest, I usually barely pass 300 minutes a month on my phone. That’s about 10 minutes a day. While I’m sure that’s a bit of an extreme, It amazes me how much time these guys spend on the phone.

The real question is… who the hell are they talking to? Who’s free to talk at hours like 3am and 3pm? …I wonder if there’s this whole cabbie social network, and they’re just all on the phone with each other gossiping about all the crazy fares they encounter.

2. Why are the shift changes at 5am and 5pm? You’d think 3pm and 3pm would make a lot more sense. Also where the hell is this mythical cab depot? Cabs are almost unobtainable from like 3:30 pm on; you’d think it’d make more financial sense to put the terminal in Manhattan or really damn close to it.

3. How do those cabs that have all the latest sports scores and news headlines on the LED panels atop them get all that up to the minute data? I feel like those kinda cabs have been around for a while now. I just got my first cellular data plan a few months ago. You’d think that if they’re getting any kinda data feed at all (however they do it), they’d send them GPS/traffic info.

4. Why aren’t there any female taxicab drivers? I mean… has anyone ever seen even one?