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I wrote a story for kuro5hin.org (RIP) about the passenger who called me from jail, because he remembered my phone number. Who Are Your Lifelines? - https://ww
by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I wrote a story for kuro5hin.org (RIP) about the passenger who called me from jail, because he remembered my phone number.
Who Are Your Lifelines? - https://www.taxiwars.org/p/who-are-your-lifelines.html https://www.taxiwars.org/p/who-are-your-lifelines.html (2015)
That passenger recently reappeared on me. He's still "imaginary", and is still working on getting a plastic ID card. Part of his predicament has to do with [redacted]. Supposedly. In 2016, this passenger's sister told me some of the details about how her brother got trapped in his little emotional rut, when he was about 18 years old. I still have the postcard he sent me from jail, circa 2016. He greatly appreciated my efforts to keep him alive while on the jail's starvation diet.
I exercise my mental phonebook regularly on account of this passenger.
- Sakos 4y agoThanks for the interesting read and the update. I really empathize with the struggle between wanting to help but not wanting to take on too much responsibility (and risk) for somebody you don't even know. I've had bizarre experiences like regretting trying to help a bipolar woman who'd had way too much to drink or being stuck between a hooker, her temporarily detained pimp and their meth-addict buddy. I still try to help when I can, but I think I've definitely become more cautious and hesitant.