stereotyping? whatever. all you guys ***** about taxi drivers, who work 10x as hard as any non-messenger on this forum.
they deal with that stress for a living. I did it full time for a year-- in a small city far, far removed from NYC-- and that was hard enough. stop acting like victims! (hell, you already act like you deserve a gold star for riding fixed...as if you're the only one who's ever pulled it off.) I give taxi drivers mad props for doing a job that others (read: you middle class trustifarians "slumming" your way through a hundred thousand cans of faux-bad lager) wouldn't touch with a ten-foot-pole....partly because of the risk of accidents and accompanying lawsuits. and that's with minimal knowledge of English and a family to support. BAH.