A man hails a taxi and gets into a yellow cab.
To the airport please, he says.
The trip is going fine until the passenger taps the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question.
Frightened, the driver screams, loses control of the car, nearly hits a bus, drives up on a footpath and stops centimetres away from a shop window.
Everything goes quiet for a minute before the passenger breaks the silence.
Im so sorry, he says. I didnt realise a tiny tap like that would scare you so much.
The driver shakes his head.
Its not your fault, he says. Today is my first day as a taxi driver. Ive been driving a funeral van for the past 35 years.
Possum; AKA:- Ali El-Aziz Mohamed Gundawiathan
Sent from my imperial66 typewriter using carrier pigeon, message sticks and smoke signals.
Blues man.
