Sub-titled "How I Stopped Worrying About What To Do With The Rest Of My Life & Started Driving a Yellow Cab", Melissa Plaut’s Hack is an easy and charming memoir on the life of a New York City cab driver. With wit and understatement, Plaut relates her tale of deciding "as an adventure" to try driving a cab for a living for while, filling out the forms, taking the test, obtaining her hack license and driving for a medium sized taxi firm in New York City. From dealing with agressive and obnoxious drivers to competing with other hacks for fares, Plaut does a good job of capturing the romance of life behind the wheel. She also manages quite matter-of-factly to out herself as a lesbian and reminds her friend, on a late night taxi ride home from The Hole, that taxi drivers always listen in on conversations, so the cab is Not a great place to dish an entire evening’s worth of people. All in all a pleasant and informative read. Recommended.
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