More than 50,000 yellow taxi drivers navigate New York
City’s streets each year, carrying residents, workers, and tourists from
one destination to another. Each car will log up to 70,000 miles a year
on the job [PDF]. Needless to say, the city’s taxi drivers have seen it all and then some.
To get a better idea of what their job entails, mental_floss asked 40-year veteran driver and author Eugene Salomon (Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver) to give us a glimpse of life on the other side of the partition. Here’s what he had to say about the tips, the tipsy, and why he sometimes has to call your mom.
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