Geat posts! And while some parts of Carols taxi saga sounded eerily familiar (giving the taxi driver inadvertedly too much money), others sounded like straight form some strange, alcohol fueled road movie
Sigh...this is a reminder of my own drunken cab expeditions. I spend a lot of money for cabs while I was drinking. Strange enough, even when I could barely stand up I always managed to find a cab- thankfully I was always wise enough to abstain from driving. Often I would just pass out in the backseat to be woken up by the driver arrived at destination.
The most disturbing experience that I was once so intoxicated that I didn't recognize my own neighborhood and was thinking that the driver was going to the wrong place. Not good times, and thankfully I'm done with this.
So thank you a lot for reminding me what it was like and that I never want to go back to this.