November 7, 2007 - Oooh, la L.A.!!! |
I recently had the extreme pleasure of taking a just for fun trip to Los Angeles and could not have had a better time. It seemed like the planets were all in alignment to show me a good time. The short flight out there was wonderful. We have direct flights from where I live in Florida to L.A., which makes it super nice. In-flight movie was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. My flight arrived early to California and I wasn't sure what to do since I could not check in to the hotel until 3:00pm. It was barely 10:00am local time. But I called the hotel and asked if I could come and check my bag in because I had somewhere to be at noon. I was put on hold for a moment, and when the clerk came back on, she told me to catch the hotel shuttle from the airport and come on over. They would give me the room early. Woohoo!!! The hotel was wonderful and the staff was amazingly nice. I had time to dump my bag in the room, change clothes and get the concierge's help with calling a cab. I needed to get to a club about ten miles away for an album launch party by noon.
The cab shows up in almost no time at all! I was so high on having fun, I blurted out to the cabbie that I had never been in a cab before. He nearly broke his neck turning to look at me and asked, "In your whole life?!" I laughed and assured him, this was my first ride in a cab ever. He laughed back at me and just said "Wow! I will have to make this a good trip for you. Do you like music?" When I said I did, he put in a CD by a group called The String Cheese Incident. His son is in the band and they are wonderful! After we exited the freeway to find La Brea Avenue completely gridlocked, he shut off the meter and said it wasn't fair for him to continue charging me when the route was so congested. It was not usually like that, he said, and that being on vacation, maybe I needed the money more than he did. He would not let me tip him for the ride, either. I tried, then graciously thanked him. What a super cool guy he was, but completely indicative of how my whole trip was to be.
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November 7, 2007 - WooHOo! |
| Posted by Ginafish |
Your first ride in a cab? Evah?? Wow! My little hometown of what use to be 15,000 had a cab. Once I rode the cab to college because I couldn't get my car started. $2. He! But to balance that out, I've ridden in a cab in New York. Ouch! We should have used our best Southern drawl to let him know we were visitors. Probably wouldn't have worked as well as your accent did though. :-D
Great start to your LA Story! |
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November 13, 2007 - Tell us more!! |
| Posted by KitKat |
Great story and I can't wait to read more. The only time I've ever been in a cab was on a vacation in London! I was by myself, just like you! A little scary at first, but fun and exciting.
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