environment canada says it is going to rain for the next 5 days.
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in a town of 6 or more taxi companies and seemingly hundreds of taxi cabs, i waited for a cab for 45 minutes, in the rain. okay, i am being melodramatic. i was on a tiny porch of a closed community center, so technically i was not in the rain. but try to explain this to a 4 year old.

then we ran to the nearest crossroads to try to stop a car. and then a cab came. not ours, though. we took it. we were in Apex, 1 h walking from home.

the driver was from Ethiopia. here for 2 years. not a single day passes without him thinking of getting out. the money is good, but the expenses are high.