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Well, the Holiday Inn was completely booked and now I\u2019m worried that some patient in need of a blood transfusion is going to die before I get there, so I spill the beans to her and she says that\u2019s fine, let\u2019s deliver the blood first. When we get to St. John\u2019s they literally have the elevator door held open to rush the blood up to where it\u2019s needed. Good thing I hadn\u2019t tried a second hotel first.<\/p>\n
Well by now we\u2019re talking quite a bit \u2013 she\u2019s a school teacher from Australia taking an around-the-world trip, first a boat to Seattle and now cross-country to New York – and I\u2019m giving her the low down on places to stay saying St. Paul isn\u2019t all that bad. By the time we get to the downtown Radisson, and I\u2019ve told her about the Carousel Restaurant on the top floor with a view, she says \u201cWhat time do you get off duty, will you join me for a drink?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m off in an hour,\u201d I tell her \u2013 which is technically true because back in those days you just kept 45% of what was on the meter and you could pick however many hours you wanted to work.<\/p>\n
I quickly turned the cab in and couldn\u2019t wait to get back to my new friend. Once I hear all her details and she mine (it\u2019s really all just clothes in her suitcases \u2013 enough for 80 days), I offered she could stay at my place to save money and then tomorrow I would help her pack one suitcase to ship back to Australia by Yellow Freight to lighten her load and be quicker to the cab stand. She stayed a week. We had a wonderful time. Showed her all the great places in St. Paul. Hardly had time to drive my cab for all our cavorting. Got postcards from around the world for the next 80 days.<\/p>\n
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No virus found in this message. In the cab she quickly tells me she had already been accosted twice by strangers, just off the bus, and wanted nothing more to do with St. Paul: \u201cPlease take me to the nearest \u2013 safe \u2013 hotel,\u201d she commands. … Continue reading
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