Taxi Chat

It has been my habit to chat with the taxi driver.  Most of them drive for long hours without having a real conversation and These people love to talk so they welcome conversations with passengers.  On this particular occasion, the taxi driver said that at this time of day he would usually be relaxing with other taxi drivers.  And they would talk about lottery.  I said, I don’t believe in such luck.  He turned wistful and said, You’ll never know.  It’s better to hope to win than not at all….

I said, If you win the lottery you will become super rich and many people will come after you Including thieves and robbers.  He smiled and said, That’s correct but it’s ok.  Then I asked, Do you own a house?  He said, No, we’re just renting.  I said, With your money you can have your own house.  He said, That’s right.  But then you have to hire security to keep robbers away, I continued.  He said, Yeah, I will hire security.  I asked, Do you have kids?  He said, Yes I have 2.  And where are they studying?  He said, At Abellana National school.  I said, That’s a public school, and people will know that you are rich.  That’s not a safe place for your kids anymore.  That means you have to transfer them to a private school.  He laughed but he was seriously thinking about what I said.  Then I continued, You have to hire security around your kids too, kidnappers will be hanging around you know….He laughed again, then turned to me and said, I think you are right, and I think I don’t want to win the lottery anymore.  I never thought being rich is going to be that risky!

With this comment we burst out laughing like two crazy people inside the taxi.  He said, you entirely changed the way I think about lottery, and that he will tell his friends about our conversation, and that he will not buy tickets anymore because he doesn’t want a complicated life full of thieves and kidnappers around his kids!  We had a hilariously laughing time the whole time, and when I alighted from the taxi, he said, Man, I will never forget this conversation we had.  I nodded and said, Neither do I.