They just didn’t take their time. The local radio the driver was tuned in to had already played a dozen ballads but the cab had barely inched forward. The traffic was moving at a glacial pace and I was stuck in the middle of it all. While I struggled to keep my eye away from the running meter, I looked outside my window, delightfully lost in the music, as my fingers tapped to the slow beat of the Basil Valdez classic, the sedating melody of which was sometimes interrupted by the unorthodox percussion coming from the outside — the gentle humming of the engine in the background and the brassy honks from the other vehicles on the road that seem to build up to a crescendo. This is … [Read more...]
