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Piece Description
In New York City, a taxi driver named Andrew Vollo has been interviewing other cabbies. Here, Vollo talks with long-time driver Hyman Bloom about his work that began over thirty years ago.
Broadcast History
NPR's Morning Edition 9/12/08
Transcript
HB: My first shift I must have made forty dollars after ten hours. I said 'What am I doing in this business?' But, you talk to people, you get out. You are not stuck behind an office desk, and it's an easy job. One street goes uptown, one goes downtown. Even streets go East. Odd streets go West. You don't have to be brilliant. And my wife says I'm a simpleton, so it's perfect for me.
And you get people in the cab, they want to talk. I have routines I pull on them. They laugh. And when I have mixed couples, I don't know why it is, the women want to here all the filthy jokes. But otherwise, they'll tell me problems. 'He has a son... what do I do?' I tell them, if I could answer those problems, I wouldn't be driving a cab, which is true.
AV: If you could do something differently in your life, what would you do?
HB: I think I would do the same thing. Got a wife I love. Wife that loves...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Time now for another conversation from StoryCorps.
People across the country are interviewing each other for this project.
In New York City, a taxi driver named Andrew Vollo [Vol-Low] has been interviewing
other cabbies.
Here, Vollo talks with long-time driver Hyman <
... about his work ... that began over thirty years ago.
[TAPE]
[STORYCORPS MUSIC]
OUTRO:Andrew Vollo and Hyman Bloom at StoryCorps in New York City.
Their conversation will be archived with ALL StoryCorps interviews at
the Library of Congress.
Find more interviews with New York cabbies ... at STORYCORPS dot NET.
Additional Credits
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, State Farm, NPR
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