Posted by trip on October 24, 2001 at 17:19:49:
The Cab Ride
A successful businessman flew to Vegas for the weekend to gamble. He lost
the shirt off his back, and had nothing left but a quarter and the second
half of his round-trip ticket. If he could just get to the airport he could
get himself home. So he went out to the front of the casino where there was
a cab waiting. He got in and explained his situation to the cabby. He
promised to send the driver money from home, he offered him his credit card
numbers, his driver's license number, his address, etc., but to no avail.
The cabby said, "If you don't have fifteen dollars, get the hell out of my
cab!"
So the businessman was forced to hitch hike to the airport and was barely in
time to catch his flight.
One year later the businessman, having worked long and hard to regain his
financial success, returned to Vegas, and this time he won big. Feeling
pretty good about himself, he went out to the front of the casino to get a
cab ride back to the airport.
Well who should he see out there, at the very end of a long line of cabs,
but his old buddy who had refused to give him a ride when he was down on his
luck. The businessman thought for a moment about how he could make the
guy pay for his lack of charity, and he hit on a plan.
The businessman got in the first cab in the line, "How much for a ride to
the airport," he asked? "Fifteen bucks," came the reply. "And how much for
you to give me sexual favors on the way?"
"What?! Get the hell out of my cab!"
The businessman got into the back of each cab in the long line and asked the
same questions, with the same result.
When he got to his old friend at the back of the fifth line, he got in and
asked, "How much for a ride to the airport?"
The cabby replied, "Fifteen bucks."
The businessman said, "Okay" and off they went.
As they slowly drove past the long line of cabs, the business man gave a big
smile and thumbs up sign to each driver.