On driving a certain profession

If you work weekend afternoons as a rideshare driver long enough, I guarantee that you will have the following experience.

An attractive woman in no stage of prepartion to meet the world will enter your car. There will be surface pleasantries, but nothing in the way of real conversation, or for any real length of time. 

They will have a signficant bag of hard to determine stuff. 

You won't ask about the bag.

And you will take them in broad daylight to an empty strip club.

You are in this moment invisible, have always been invisible, will always be invisible. And a much younger part of yourself, deep inside the older husk, will react as if they are children at the zoo. Lookit this! Can you believe it? It's like we're in an art movie!

The older you, of course, will just drop this fellow member of the working class in front of their job site. They will appreciate you not staring, and also seem a little antsy over how you are not staring. They'll tip, but not to excess. And you'll get back to your day with a blase quickness, because any ride you give more than once just doesn't phase you very much...

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