Monday, July 7, 2008

ride and learn



On the way home from the airport, I rode in one
of those cabs with a TV (good for taking 
your mind off the cabbie's nutso driving) and I
learned that you can polo on elephants. Who knew?
Have Charles and the boys heard about this?

4 comments:

  1. Cabs going mod with TV screens? Who'd a thunk it? Actually, Alexa, I've never considered that one before, and as you say it does take your mind off the cabby's stellar driving skills. I could count on one, okay maybe two hands and one foot, the number of times I've taken a cab in ma vie. Three times when my car was towed from the University campus for parking in the wrong spot [go figure...and no it wasn't the wheelchair spot], but that was several years ago. Is the $7.30 in the lower rh corner your cost at that paricular part of the ride, or is that related to a TV viewing charge? BTW...it's amazing you got the clarity you did from a moving TV screen. Bravo!

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  2. coltrane -- I like your new photo, btw.
    $7.30 is the fare, which by the time we arrived in front of my building amounted to $25. So if you want to know how far I was from the airport at that point -- well, obviously I was $7.30 away.

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  3. Wow. I've actually seen real polo, live, before. I was getting my BA in Santa Barbara, and in nearby Montecito (moue) was a polo club. On Sunday afternoons, they had practice matches that they allowed the hoi polloi to watch for free from the bleachers. Great for picnics. But I digress... I think elephants would simultaneously slow down the action and make it more dangerous! And mister, I hope you have one long polo stick there...

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  4. I've only seen one Polo Match in my life, but with elephants? Yikes!

    TV's in cabs, very cool!

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