Adventures in San Francisco

Category: Humour

In the year 2000 when I was working for a Swiss company called - Nexus Telecom - a sales colleague and I went to San Francisco and decided to visit a contact at The Bank of America.

We had been walking for a while and we were getting tired. We were also getting a bit frustrated because we couldn't figure out from the oddball street numbering system where The Bank of America was. It was also very hot.

I said to my colleague “Maybe we should hail a cab”. Twenty seconds later he sees a car with the tell-tale Taxi cab sign on the roof go by, and he shouts “There's one!”.

As my colleague was a few years older than me and a bit heavyset, I figured I could run faster, so I charged after the Taxi as it was slowing down for a traffic light. I pulled open the passenger door and said to the driver “Are you available?” to which he responded angrily “For what?” to which I replied, with the worst timing possible (as I am slowly realizing that not all is well here) “to go down ...” (and here the devil makes me pause 3 seconds as I turn my head to look at my colleague) ...”the road” I continued.

Then I said meekly, “This is not a Taxi cab is it?”. Again, angrily he says “ No! ”.

At this time I see that my soon to be dead (in a manner of speaking) colleague is doubled over on the sidewalk with his hands on his knees. His face is purple with laughter. He can't breathe he’s laughing so hard.


Postscript

As you can guess, I didn't get shot by the driver, nor I did I kill my colleague.