The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget

I rarely make a blog entry with text as long as this, but this story is worth reading and watching!

There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living.

It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss, constant movement and the thrill of a dice roll every time a new passenger got into the cab.
What I didn’t count on when I took the job was that it was also a ministry.
Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a rolling confessional. Passengers would climb in, sit behind me in total anonymity and tell me of their lives.
We were like strangers on a train, the passengers and I, hurtling through the night, revealing intimacies we would never have dreamed of sharing during the brighter light of day. I encountered people whose lives amazed me, ennobled me, made me laugh and made me weep.
And none of those lives touched me more than that of a woman I picked up late on a warm August night.

I was responding to a call from a small brick fourplex in a quiet part of town. I assumed I was being sent to pick up some partiers, or someone who had just had a fight with a lover, or someone going off to an early shift at some factory for the industrial part of town.
When I arrived at the address, the building was dark except for a single light in a ground-floor window.

Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a short minute, then drive away. Too many bad possibilities awaited a driver who went up to a darkened building at 2:30 in the morning.
But I had seen too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the cab as their only means of transportation.
Unless a situation had a real whiff of danger, I always went to the door to find the passenger. It might, I reasoned, be someone who needs my assistance. Would I not want a driver to do the same if my mother or father had called for a cab?
So I walked to the door and knocked.
“Just a minute,” answered a frail and elderly voice. I could hear the sound of something being dragged across the floor.


After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman somewhere in her 80s stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like you might see in a costume shop or a Goodwill store or in a 1940s movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The sound had been her dragging it across the floor.

The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.
“Would you carry my bag out to the car?” she said. “I’d like a few moments alone. Then, if you could come back and help me? I’m not very strong.”
I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman. She took my arm, and we walked slowly toward the curb. She kept thanking me for my kindness.
“It’s nothing,” I told her. “I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.”
“Oh, you’re such a good boy,” she said. Her praise and appreciation were almost embarrassing.
When we got in the cab, she gave me an address, then asked, “Could you drive through downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered.
“Oh, I don’t mind,” she said. “I’m in no hurry. I’m on my way to a hospice.”
I looked in the rearview mirror. Her eyes were glistening.
“I don’t have any family left,” she continued. “The doctor says I should go there. He says I don’t have very long.”

I quietly reached over and shut off the meter. “What route would you like me to go?” I asked.
For the next two hours we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they had first been married. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she would have me slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico. Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. Without waiting for me, they opened the door and began assisting the woman. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her; perhaps she had phoned them right before we left.

I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase up to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
“How much do I owe you?” she asked, reaching into her purse.
“Nothing,” I said.
“You have to make a living,” she answered.
“There are other passengers,” I responded.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held on to me tightly.
“You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,” she said. “Thank you.”
There was nothing more to say.
I squeezed her hand once, then walked out into the dim morning light. Behind me, I could hear the door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

I did not pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly, lost in thought. For the remainder of that day, I could hardly talk.

What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away? What if I had been in a foul mood and had refused to engage the woman in conversation?
How many other moments like that had I missed or failed to grasp?

We are so conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unawares.

When that woman hugged me and said that I had brought her a moment of joy, it was possible to believe that I had been placed on earth for the sole purpose of providing her with that last ride.
I do not think that I have ever done anything in my life that was any more important.

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Here is the movie by time marker (rather long):

00:01:03        Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
00:03:21        The Dark Knight Rises
00:05:14        Life of Pi
00:06:21        The Amazing Spiderman
00:07:22        ParaNorman
00:08:23        The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
00:10:00        Beasts of the Southern Wild
00:11:02        Rec 3: Genesis
00:12:12        Skyfall
00:14:03        Red Dawn
00:15:12        The Grey
00:16:23        The Bourne Legacy
00:18:00        The Apparition
00:18:21        The Dark Knight Rises
00:19:14        Total Recall
00:21:15        Wrath of the Titans
00:22:12        The Loneliest Planet
00:23:10        The Impossible
00:24:08        Red Dawn
00:25:18        Battleship
00:26:18        Underworld: Awakening
00:27:14        The Hobbit
00:28:12        Brave
00:29:10        The Hunger Games
00:30:08        The Avengers
00:31:00        The Amazing Spiderman
00:31:11        Underworld: Awakening
00:31:20        Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
00:32:17        Cloud Atlas
00:33:09        Snow White and the Huntsman
00:34:05        John Carter
00:35:07        The Avengers
00:35:20        Red Tails
00:36:16        Alex Cross
00:37:12        Lockout
00:38:07        Flight
00:38:20        Chernobyl Diaries
00:39:07        The Divide
00:39:23        The Watch
00:41:12        Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
00:45:02        Robot and Frank
00:46:15        Ted
00:48:00        The Oranges
00:48:21        Crazy Eyes
00:50:14        The Details
00:52:10        The Guilt Trip
00:53:15        Footnote
00:54:07        Man on a Ledge
00:56:07        Detachment
00:57:04        Fun Size
00:57:23        Ruby Sparks
00:58:16        In Our Nature
00:59:05        The Perks of Being a Wallflower / Ruby Sparks
01:00:04        Trouble with the Curve
01:00:23        21 Jump Street
01:02:18        The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
01:03:07        Being Flynn
01:03:23        Farewell My Queen
01:04:19        Think Like A Man
01:05:11        Piranha 3DD
01:06:12        Zero Dark Thirty
01:07:04        Starlet
01:07:23        That’s My Boy
01:08:16        Men In Black III
01:09:14        Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
01:10:11        The Sessions
01:11:03        Cosmopolis
01:11:23        The Oranges
01:12:10        Chronicle
01:13:01        Pitch Perfect
01:14:11        The Five-Year Engagement
01:15:06        The Man with the Iron Fists
01:15:21        A Liar’s Autobiography
01:16:11        The Avengers
01:17:01        Wrath of the Titans
01:17:15        Looper
01:18:00        The Woman in Black
01:18:12        Step Up Revolution
01:19:12        Wreck-it Ralph
01:20:02        John Carter
01:20:15        Rise of the Guardians
01:21:10        The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
01:22:15        Safe House
01:23:11        Ruby Sparks
01:24:06        The Words
01:24:11        Ruby Sparks
01:25:04        Hitchcock
01:26:10        To Rome With Love
01:27:05        Butter
01:27:19        Savages
01:28:08        Damsels in Distress
01:28:23        Sparkle
01:29:13        Jack Reacher
01:30:01        Ruby Sparks
01:30:20        The Hunter
01:31:05        Bernie
01:33:00        Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
01:33:23        Chernobyl Diaries
01:34:14        Django Unchained
01:35:21        The Expendables 2
01:36:08        The Lorax
01:36:20        Looper
01:37:09        Ice Age: Continental Drift
01:38:12        Cloud Atlas
01:39:09        Cabin in the Woods
01:40:05        Life of Pi
01:41:15        The Hunter
01:43:03        The Grey
01:44:22        Nobody Walks
01:45:21        Prometheus
01:46:18        Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
01:47:11        Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
01:48:03        The Divide
01:48:19        Looper
01:49:14        Kumare
01:50:02        The Man with the Iron Fists
01:51:22        Killing Them Softly
01:52:12        The Three Stooges
01:52:22        The Avengers
01:53:15        Premium Rush
01:54:00        Hit and Run
01:54:07        Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
01:54:16        Savages
01:55:06        The Raid: Redemption
01:55:21        The Bourne Legacy
01:56:04        Lawless
01:56:09        Contraband
01:56:16        Sound of My Voice
01:56:23        The Watch
01:57:09        Darling Companion
01:58:00        Prometheus
01:59:04        Hitchcock
01:59:10        This Is 40
02:00:00        Father of Lights
02:00:11        The Master
02:01:04        Hyde Park on Hudson
02:01:08        Lawless
02:01:15        Sinister
02:02:02        Frankenweenie
02:02:15        3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom
02:02:23        Hotel Transylvania
02:03:09        Where Do We Go Now?
02:03:20        Dark Shadows
02:04:11        People Like Us
02:05:04        Jack Reacher
02:05:14        Ek Tha Tiger
02:05:22        Big Miracle
02:06:08        Iron Sky
02:06:20        For A Good Time, Call…
02:07:13        Lockout
02:08:08        Detention
02:09:03        Chronicle
02:14:00        Lawless
02:17:00        The Avengers
02:17:21        Alex Cross
02:18:10        Seven Psychopaths
02:18:21        Casa de mi Padre
02:19:07        Safe
02:19:15        Savages
02:20:00        The Bourne Legacy
02:20:16        Django Unchained
02:21:03        Meeting Evil
02:21:18        This Is Not A Film
02:22:02        Act of Valor
02:22:20        Hold Your Breath
02:23:04        Goon
02:23:14        Snow White and the Huntsman
02:24:08        Gone
02:24:20        The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
02:25:07        The Samaritan
02:25:17        Sleepless Night
02:26:11        Jack Reacher
02:27:05        Flight
02:28:07        End of Watch
02:28:20        Dredd 3D
02:29:14        Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
02:30:04        Lincoln
02:31:08        Contraband
02:31:15        Total Recall
02:32:08        Wreck-it Ralph
02:32:20        Argo
02:33:11        The Grey
02:34:08        The Lady
02:34:17        John Carter
02:35:09        Beneath the Darkness
02:35:21        Bel Ami
02:36:15        Cabin in the Woods
02:36:22        Silent Night
02:37:07        Paranormal Activity 4
02:37:13        Ultrasonic
02:37:23        Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
02:38:13        The Cold Light of Day
02:39:02        V/H/S
02:39:18        Dark Tide
02:40:05        Headhunters
02:40:14        Contraband
02:41:02        Deadfall
02:41:14        Universal Soldier
02:42:00        Killer Joe
02:42:22        The Big Picture
02:43:17        Here Comes the Boom
02:45:00        Keyhole
02:45:15        Resident Evil: Retribution
02:46:18        The Amazing Spiderman
02:48:00        Zero Dark Thirty
02:48:21        Gambit
02:49:19        Bernie
02:50:11        Laurence Anyways
02:51:13        Django Unchained
02:52:22        Promised Land
02:54:07        That’s My Boy
02:55:01        Celeste and Jesse Forever
02:57:16        Monsieur Lazhar
02:58:13        21 Jump Street
02:59:18        10 Years
03:00:13        Anne Karenina
03:01:04        The Raven
03:02:18        Red Hook Summer
03:03:13        Moonrise Kingdom
03:04:03        Premium Rush
03:04:20        Mirror Mirror
03:05:11        The Amazing Spiderman
03:07:07        The First Time
03:07:20        Barfi!
03:08:16        Silver Linings Playbook
03:09:10        Fun Size
03:10:09        The Man With the Iron Fists
03:11:13        So Undercover
03:12:05        One for the Money
03:12:19        Save the Date
03:14:12        Safety Not Guaranteed
03:15:07        Compliance
03:16:02        Haywire
03:16:21        Safety Not Guaranteed
03:18:08        Ek Tha Tiger
03:18:22        A Royal Affair
03:19:08        Magic Mike
03:19:20        Stolen
03:21:02        The Queen of Versailles
03:21:22        Barfi!
03:22:19        The Inbetweeners
03:23:16        Bachelorette
03:24:10        Only the Young
03:25:01        Shut Up and Play the Hits
03:25:17        In Our Nature
03:26:17        Gambit
03:27:13        Hope Springs
03:28:06        Ambassador
03:28:21        Project X
03:29:07        Joyful Noise
03:30:01        Looper
03:30:23        Trishna
03:32:09        The Deep Blue Sea
03:33:03        Smashed
03:33:18        The Lucky One
03:34:10        Not Fade Away
03:35:01        Pitch Perfect
03:35:19        Friends With Kids
03:36:14        Arbitrage
03:37:08        Madea’s Witness Protection
03:38:00        Freelancers
03:38:15        Hello I Must Be Going
03:39:07        Damsels in Distress
03:39:19        Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
03:40:03        What to Expect When You’re Expecting
03:42:00        Seven Psychopaths
03:47:17        The Magic of Belle Isle
03:48:19        Liberal Arts
03:49:18        Hello I Must Be Going
03:50:20        The Woman in the Fifth
03:51:13        Lola Versus
03:52:15        2 Days in New York
03:53:14        Dragon
03:53:23        We Have a Pope
03:54:11        Jesus Henry Christ
03:54:22        The Pirates! Band of Misfits
03:55:12        Silver Linings Playbook
03:56:06        A Thousand Words
03:56:21        Premium Rush
03:57:13        American Reunion
03:58:02        Bachelorette
03:58:16        Polisse
03:59:14        The Dictator
04:00:18        10 Years
04:01:16        Jack and Diane
04:02:08        Wanderlust
04:05:21        The Campaign
04:06:16        The Dictator
04:07:12        Barfi!
04:08:10        Searching for Sugarman
04:09:05        Nature Calls
04:09:21        Lay the Favorite
04:10:20        Union Square
04:12:04        Roadie
04:13:03        Free Samples
04:14:03        Hyde Park on Hudson
04:15:01        Little White Lies
04:16:01        Excuse Me for Living
04:16:17        Collaborator
04:17:12        Chimpanzee
04:18:13        In Another Country
04:19:13        Sightseers
04:20:14        Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
04:21:06        Good Deeds
04:22:07        Price Check
04:24:05        Chasing Mavericks
04:24:23        Act of Valor
04:26:11        Life of Pi
04:28:11        Detachment
04:32:05        Middle of Nowhere
04:33:16        The Devil Inside
04:35:03        Barbara
04:37:00        Cloud Atlas
04:38:22        John Carter
04:40:02        Silent House
04:41:03        House at the End of the Street
04:41:19        Virginia
04:43:03        360
04:45:09        Sound of My Voice
04:46:22        Wuthering Heights
04:48:15        Return
04:49:04        Nobody Walks
04:49:22        Trishna
04:50:14        360
04:51:12        Citizen Gangster
04:52:20        Lawless
04:53:16        Keep the Lights On
04:54:13        Detention
04:55:08        Sinister
04:56:06        Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
04:57:09        Little Birds
04:58:04        This Must Be the Place
04:59:09        The Vow
05:00:01        Unconditional
05:01:03        Pusher
05:02:07        The Perks of Being a Wallflower
05:02:19        Jack and Diane
05:03:12        Amour
05:04:22        Holy Motors
05:06:00        W.E.
05:06:22        Cloud Atlas
05:07:23        Katy Perry: Part of Me
05:08:19        Neil Young Journeys
05:09:13        Pieta
05:10:14        A Late Quartet
05:11:12        Norwegian Wood
05:13:05        Chasing Ice
05:13:21        Rust and Bone
05:14:17        Playing for Keeps
05:15:15        Beyond the Black Rainbow
05:16:08        The Dark Knight RIses
05:16:20        In Darkness
05:18:00        Chicken with Plums
05:18:22        The Paperboé
05:19:11        The Kid With a Bike
05:20:03        Being Flynn
05:20:17        The Apparition
05:21:11        Bully
05:23:01        Les Misérables
05:23:19        The Tall Man
05:24:16        Won’t Back Down
05:25:06        For Ellen
05:25:21        The Imposter
05:26:15        On The Road
05:27:11        Pusher
05:28:06        Hermano
05:29:03        Any Day Now
05:30:04        Heleno
05:31:00        Ambassador
05:31:17        Chernobyl Diaries
05:32:07        West of Memphis
05:33:06        Les Misérables
05:34:05        The Lady
05:34:22        The Avengers
05:36:07        Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
05:37:00        Killer Joe
05:37:13        Ginger and Rosa
05:38:02        The Impossible
05:39:16        Taken 2
05:40:12        Marley
05:41:05        Solomon Kane
05:42:00        Django Unchained
05:43:19        Cloud Atlas
05:45:12        Starlet
05:46:14        The Hunger Games
05:47:02        Unconditional
05:48:05        Snow White and the Huntsman
05:49:14        Your Sister’s Sister
05:50:19        The Master
05:52:05        Take This Waltz
05:53:18        Ruby Sparks
05:54:14        The Invisible War
05:55:21        Oslo, August 31st
05:57:04        Here
05:59:14        Citizen Gangster
06:02:23        Alex Cross
06:04:20        Cloud Atlas
06:06:11        Men In Black 3
06:07:10        The Waiting Room
06:08:03        Alex Cross
06:09:06        The Dark Knight Rises
06:10:07        Samsara
06:11:07        This Means War
06:12:02        Dredd 3D
06:12:18        War of the Buttons
06:13:10        First Position
06:14:05        Jiro Dreams of Sushi
06:15:00        Sleepwalk With Me
06:16:05        Skyfall
06:17:03        Act of Valor
06:17:17        Beyond the Black Rainbow
06:18:10        John Carter
06:18:23        Mirror Mirror
06:19:14        Dark Shadows
06:20:06        I Wish
06:21:02        Safety Not Guaranteed
06:21:18        The Obama Effect
06:22:10        The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
06:22:22        Ginger and Rosa
06:23:13        Five Broken Cameras
06:24:06        Not Fade Away
06:25:01        Undefeated
06:25:21        Samsara
06:26:22        Taken 2
06:28:02        Ice Age: Continental Drift
06:28:13        The Lorax
06:29:23        Prometheus
06:31:14        John Carter
06:33:05        Valley of Saints
06:33:22        The Possession
06:34:16        Jeff, Who Lives At Home
06:35:03        The Intouchables
06:35:15        Step Up Revolution
06:36:13        Rock of Ages
06:37:02        The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
06:37:13        Chasing Mavericks
06:38:12        Where Do We Go Now?
06:39:00        Parental Guidance
06:39:12        Waiting for Lightning
06:40:01        Thunderstruck
06:40:21        Nativity 2
06:41:11        The Tall Man
06:42:02        Snow White and the Huntsman
06:43:08        Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
06:43:19        The Avengers
06:44:09        The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
06:44:23        The Hobbit
06:45:17        North Sea Texas
06:46:11        Grassroots
06:47:01        Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
06:47:15        The Odd Life of Timothy Green
06:48:04        Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
06:49:00        Craigslist Joe
06:50:00        Beasts of the Southern Wild
06:51:00        Looper

Who Woulda Thought Mr. Rogers Was Cool?

Growing up, we all watched Mr. Rogers (if you were from my generation that is) and we all heard the Mr. Rogers jokes and Saturday Night Live skits...Looking back, I now have a great appreciation for the man and this video captures that really well - well played Fred Rogers Sir - Well played (oh, and thanks - now I need to go hang up my sweater!).

Source: youtube.com via Ken on Pinterest

Change For A Dollar - Very Inspiring Video!

Happy Holidays from WiseSize (Ken & Marilyn)! In the spirit of giving, we thought this little video captures it all. Sometimes it's the little things that make a world of difference to someone (actually, it's usually not sometimes but most of the time).

A Passing of A Loved One and Friend

Normally we do not write about things of a personal nature for a couple reasons:
1. There are so many wonderful things, ideas and experiences more noteworthy, in our opinion.
2. We really want this blog to be about positive ideas.

The reason this writing is a deviation from that is more about how it happened more than what happened.
Last night, we lost our friend, family member and loved one, Darby (or Stoopid as he was sometimes called in fun).

 

Marilyn and I of course thought Darby (or Stoopid depending on our mood and what he had done) was a great dog, friend and family member, as did his best friend Bob (the cat) and we all knew he was getting old (14 years which is rare for a Jack Russell purebred).

 

Here is Bob & Darby:

What made this special was how Darby (or Stoopid) decided to say goodbye!

For the most part, the day was like any other, we worked, until such a time where we decided it was time to stop and relax for an hour or so before bed.

The animals were acting as they always did (watching us work, under our feet, meowing demands and trying to sneak upstairs without us know ((they don't know that sound travels)):

Then, Darby jumps up on the couch and spends a lot of time traveling from Marilyn's lap to mine, stopping for a few minutes at each one to be petted and talked to. It was then we felt something was not right....he seemed slow and his eyes were not as bright. We both knew right away something was wrong, then it hit us and wow did that hurt....he was dying.  We spent the next two hours holding him, petting him and telling him what a good dog he was (which we always did but this time, wow, did those words and gestures really mean ring of so much truth). 

When Darby knew it was time, he walked to the back porch and laid down where there was a small cool breeze and Bob, his buddy. He laid down on his special blanket and went: where all good dogs go to Heaven.

What makes this special isn't that we lost a dog, or a pet or....what makes this special is our friend waited until we returned from a vacation, waited until all of his family members were there, gave us each the opportunity to say goodbye and then walked out to the back porch to go silently sleep, knowing he was loved and mostly, had given love.

Thank you Darby - We Love You - Ken, Marilyn & Bob

The WiseSize Top 5 Web Videos for 2010

Since the Academy Awards are here, we thought we would review and share what we thought the top web videos for 2010 would get the best vote in our book. Lots of choices this year! I'll share a link to the top 50 at the end of this, but for now here are what Marilyn and I thought were a couple of the best:


# 1. The new sport - walking on water:



# 2. The Weather Man (maybe if Nicholas Cage had done this he would have won an award)


#3 The football trick play - this play should be in our our playbooks!


#4 Loving cat tries to save it's friends life - awwwww....this one will make you cry. The power of love!


#5 40 ton whale lands on yacht - nuff said!


A couple of honorable mentions:

The old spice man - Marilyn loves this one (hmmmm I wonder why)guess I should get some OS:^)


Embrace Life - Please wear your seat belt


Well, that's a wrap for the WiseSize picks of the web's best videos fro 2010. Let's see what crazy, awesome, creative, heart-breaking videos 2011 has in store for us! Below is a link to 50 of the best of 2010, if a video should be included in our top list, please send a link and a comment and we will add it to this 2010 video hall of fame.


Here is a list of some of the best 50 videos of 2010:
http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2010/12/27/top-50-videos-of-2010-best-of-the-best/

All the Best in 2011 - Ken & Marilyn - WiseSize