News Jun 9, 2011 at 4:00 am

In the Shadows

Riding Along in the Fab Cab

Sarah Mirk
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So... um.... There's a cabdriver? And this is news? I don't understand how this got to be an article. Was there seriously nothing better to write 300 words about?
Graham on June 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM Report this
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love you Erica!!! thats our girl sherri2780
on June 9, 2011 at 7:55 AM Report this
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@ Graham

Did you seriously count all the words in this article? Homophobic AND neurotic... YOU WIN!
DamosA on June 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM Report this
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@DamosA: Yep, I'm a well known homophobe. Why, just yesterday I was at the junior high bullying some little questioning boys.
Graham on June 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM Report this
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it's only homophobic if you look them in the eyes.
the beav on June 9, 2011 at 5:03 PM Report this
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Erica's one of a kind. She's also one of the kindest people I know, not to say one of the most interesting. OK, I'm biased, she's a personal friend.

Some people make the world a better, saner, if more unusual, place, just by being themselves. She's one of Portland's residents that typifies the city, by being unique.

I visited Portland to take part in an International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - quite a trip across the Pacific. I guess I fell in love a bit with the place, the US city with the European cultural diversity, and a personality all its own. Erica, The Fabulous, (and a darned skilful driver) is Portland personified.
on June 9, 2011 at 7:16 PM Report this
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Two months? Two little months? I've been dispatched to calls older than two months. Let's see if you have the same attitude after a year with Radio. Or seven years driving cab in Portland. After you get spit on, puked on, cursed as a devil, and driven 12 hours for less than $30 for the night, then tell us how magical it all is. Until then you are a piker and a tourist.

Hope you come back and tell us all about it a year from now. Cheers
Bea Foroni on June 9, 2011 at 8:21 PM Report this
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Too bad you couldn't have brought a black cab over with you. They rock.
Welcome to the states. Hope you get yer monies saved up soon.
frankieb on June 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM Report this
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Oh yeah... you gotta have "The Knowledge" to be a cabbie over there, right
frankieb on June 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM Report this
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I have to agree with the other poster: what was the point of this piece? Wow, a trans cabbie. Who cares? And the use of "faaabulous|? c'mon now.
on June 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM Report this
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I agree, I think Erica is absolutely wonderful! Gracious and kind with a delicious sense of humor. You are my hero : )
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