My version of "The Road"

Feb 18, 2008 19:58

Today has been a rough travel day. At 5:45am I hopped in a taxi to SeaTac, and by 7:00pm central time, I was climbing into another cab in Mobile, Alabama ( Read more... )

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mcmayhem February 19 2008, 18:25:38 UTC
Another true cab-driver story from the South: Megan's brother lived in Charlotte for a year. A cab driver once told him about grits were made by boiling down the corn cob and then scraping off all the gritty stuff attached to the cob.

"Ah, so that's why they're called grits," her brother said.

"I don't follow," the cab driver said.

They're wise without the intention of being so, I suppose.

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bigulgy February 20 2008, 05:52:54 UTC
The lesson: if they say no 3 times, try asking 4 times.

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