Another Cabbie. Another Incredible Story


by Maccabee Fri Sep 29, 2006

A Yellow Cab driven by a tiny African man named Bale pulled up to the curb and the Air Port Taxi authorities pointed me to his taxi. I threw my stuff in the back seat and we headed out to the hotel. I was in Canada this week. It’s a long ride to town and I had once again climbed into the cab of a man who had lived to see his country change from a calm pastoral British protectorate to a boiling horrible dictatorship.

His didn’t happen in six years. His happened in four months.

“Where you from?”

“Uganda.”

“How long have you been here?”

In a thick accent he answered, “about 24 years.” “What brought you here?”   Read the rest

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  1. #1 by Caveat Emptor - September 30th, 2006 at 05:30

    It looks like the Democracy movement in Bahgdad is going swimingly. And they said it couldn’t happen here.

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