Taxi Truths

Okay, so I haven't written in a while, but that's mainly due to incredible amounts of studying I've been doing. Last night however, was a rest from that. Me and a bunch of friends from my resdience went out partying for the Mexican's last night. We went out to this club called the Globe. I'd never been there before, so it was a shocking suprise when we had to wait for half an hour outside. My toes had almost frozen, and shivering beyond belief. Despite our best efforst to get in (we overheard this one girl was having a birthday, so we went to the front and said we were with them too) they didn't work.

Finally, we got in, frozen and bitter. We made our way to the dancefloor. In my opinion this is the best way to warm up! It was a very mixed group. The Swedes, the Canadians, the French, the Costa Ricans, the Mexican, the Germans, and the Chinese. After many drinks and some great songs, four of us decided we needed to get home at the decent hour of 2am.

We were desperately searching for a taxi, but an evil couple theived one from us. I hate people like that....or maybe I was just jealous. Let's be realistic, I tried to get into the club before tons of people! Anyhow, we starting talking to our cabbie, and I can't remember how it came up, but someone asked him if anything bad, really bad, has happened to a cab driver in Edmonton. He said no.......not for the last six months at least. For the six months before then, 3 cab drivers were murdered. Murdered. How scary is that?

I'm starting to realize just how ghetto Edmonton is. People are being killed all the time. In Calgary, the murder toll up to date this year is 23. 23, that's say, 2 a month. Here, it's at least, AT LEAST, 2 a week. Why is that? The two cities aren't that different in size. They are commonly called the white collar city and the blue collar city. Does job and class really have everything to do with it? I'd like to hope not.

If nothing else, I sympathize a lot more with cab drivers.