Serving Celebrities: The Complete Collection by Ryan Bill

Author:Ryan, Bill [Ryan, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WheelMan Press
Published: 2013-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

From my left was a shout. A New York City police officer was trotting towards me, carrying (I’m not making this up) a cup of coffee and a doughnut, in each hand. The cop ran from a corner deli shouting “Hey, hey, cabbie, can’t you see my car there?” The car, like I said, was parked perpendicular to the cross walk on Lexington, on the middle of the street, empty, without any lights on. The cop was in his fifties and breathing heavily when he finally made it to my driver’s window. “Are you blind?” He scolded. “You almost hit them.” “Yeah,” I thought, but at the moment I still couldn’t make words yet.

The cop placed his cup of coffee (in one of the blue and white Greek diner cups) on the hood my car and carefully put his half-eaten doughnut down beside the coffee. Then stood in front of me, yelling at my stupidity and how I could’ve killed someone. Like I didn’t realize it already, the imagined sounds of metal crumbling, brakes squealing, glass is shattering, and the crash probably killing me. I realize in some circles I would have been a hero but I was glad that I was sitting there in my checker as one of New York’s finest berated me for not heeding his inconspicuously parked car. Eventually, the cop pulled himself together and let me go with a warning. For the rest of the night every single intersection I came upon, I could see the flashing red and blue lights out of the corner of my eye.

Reagan would avoid another assassination attempt a short time later, I wish I could say the world was better for it but I’m still glad I didn’t barrel into his motorcade. But I would be back out on these garbage-strewn streets, picking up fares and listening to my inner-soulful saxophone play in my head, as I drove my cab around the sleeping city.

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