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Hack 49 Safe and healthy 04 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Read the information about Melissa Plaut, a New York taxi driver. 1 How did Melissa become a taxi driver? 2 Where can you read about her experiences as a driver? b 1 Why do you think Melissa liked the Canadian man? 2 How did the Canadian man know Melissa’s phone number? 3 Why do you think the Canadian man was looking stressed when Melissa saw him? 4 Why did the Canadian man laugh? 5 How did Melissa feel at the end of the story? Why, do you think? You’re going to read a true story from Melissa’s blog. Look at these words and expressions from the story and guess what happened. Read the story to check your ideas. REadING 20 21 a 22 Melissa Plaut is one of only 400 women among New York’s 40,000 taxi drivers. “I started driving a cab after losing my boring office job,” says Melissa. “I didn’t want to work in an office again, so I decided to get my cab license.” She started a blog about her experiences as a taxi driver, newyorkhack. blogspot.com, which quickly became popular. She’s also written a book called Hack . In New York, hack is slang for taxi, or taxi driver. Hack a Canadian man the airport a wallet credit card phoned shopping fifty dollars laughed What do you think are the good and bad points about being a taxi driver? Talk together. Read the story again. Answer the questions in groups. 23 http://www.newyorkhack.blogspot.com During rush hour, a Canadian man and his teenage son got in the cab and asked me to take them to La Guardia airport. They were going back to Canada. We had a nice conversation together and when they got out, they gave me a good tip. When my next passenger got in, he handed me a wallet and said he had found it on the back seat. I immediately knew it belonged to the Canadian man. It contained a driver’s license and a credit card, nothing much else. Now, I liked the Canadian guy, so I found the 800 number on the back of the credit card and phoned the company. I explained what had happened and gave them my number. After about half an hour, the Canadian guy called and asked me to go back to the airport and return the wallet. So I turned off my cab light and I started for the airport. Five or six people tried to stop me as I was driving through the city, but I didn’t stop. I was doing a good thing! Forty minutes later, I arrived at La Guardia. The guy was standing outside the terminal building and looking pretty stressed. I gave back the wallet and told him that I only had done a little shopping with his credit card! Just a joke. He was so happy, he just laughed. “You’re my favorite New Yorker ever,” he said. Then he handed me fifty dollars and ran back into the airport. The whole thing – plus the fifty dollars! – really made my night. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv