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10. For breakfast you have second hand smoke.
9. You must hear "time after time" and/or "girls just want
to have fun" on the radio.
8. There are at least 2 cell phones and a CB radio active at all times.
7. Driver doesn't have change for anything bigger than a 10.
6. Driver picks up at least 2 more passengers en route to your destination.
5. Driver complains about everyone else's poor driving while simultaneously
lighting a cigarette, making a call and cutting accross 3 lanes without
signaling.
4. You make some comment indicating you are Canadian in order to avoid
getting the special "rich American" price.
3. Every top of the hour you mistake the introduction to the news with
a test of your Emergency Broadcast System.
2. There's no need for seatbelts, the oversized hanging Hamsa will protect
you.
1. At the end of the ride the driver tells you "Have a good day,
Praise Allah."
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Readers Comments: SUBMIT
from Sherri
Neustien
heres some more ways you know that you're
an american in an israeli taxi
first thing in the morning:
1. Your breath still smells like your breakfast falafel,
can never get enough
falafel!!( for the first few months at least)
2. The driver asks in his best English if he can come in for some coffee
or
tea before you two get going
3. "Tasim et ha'moneh" really means, "Hey Mr. Nahag, can
you show me that
neat trick where you press that hidden button by your seat that makes
the
meter run at warp-speed?!!"
4. He drops you off at some deserted camel stop assuring you, "boobah",
that
this is "betach" Hebrew U., but just "the back way"
or a "shortcut!"
5. When he shouts out the window to give directions to another driver
its
always just one word, "yashar, yashar, yashar........"
from Ephriam
Shapiro:
You leave the taxi smelling from an odoriferous mix of
cigarettes, coconut spray, and cheap cologne.
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