I was responding to a call from a small brick
flat in a quiet part of town. I assumed I was being sent to pick up
some party-goers,or
someone who had just had a fight with a lover,or a
worker heading to an early shift at some factory for the industrial
part of town.
When I arrived at 2:30
a.m., the building was
dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under such
circumstances, many drivers just
honk(按喇叭) once or twice,wait a minute,then drive
away. But I had seen too many weak people who depended on taxis as
their only means of transportation.
Unless a situation smelled of
danger,I always went to the door.
This passenger might be someone who
needs my
assistance,I reasoned to myself. So I walked to the door and
knocked. “Just a minute,” answered a frail,elderly voice. I could
hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long
pause,the door opened. A small
woman in her 80s stood before me. She was
wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat ,like
somebody out of a 1940s movie. By her side was a small nylon
suitcase.
The apartment looked as if no one
had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with
sheets. There were no clocks on the
walls, no equipment on
the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos
and glassware.
“Would you carry my bag out to the
car?” she said. I took the
suitcase to the cab,then returned to assist
the woman. She took my arm,and we walked slowly toward the
cab.
She kept thanking me for my
kindness. “It's nothing,” I told her. “I just try to treat my
passengers the way I would want my mother treated.”
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Paragraph 1:
Having
given me an address, a hospice , she asked. “Could you drive
through downtown?”
Paragraph 2: we drove in silence to the address
she had given me , and it…
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answer:
Paragraph 1:
Having
given me an address, a hospice , she asked. “Could you drive
through downtown?” Asked why we didn’t take
the shortest way, the small
woman told me it was the last chance for
her to visit the city. We drove through the neighborhood where she
and her husband had lived. Besides, she asked me to slow in front
of a particular building or
corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing. At
last, she said she was tired and wanted to go to the
hospice.
Paragraph 2:
we
drove in silence to the address she had given me , and it
was a
low building,
where
the old lady would live the rest of her life. Two nurses who must
have been expecting her came out to the cab as
soon as we pulled up. I opened the trunk and
took the
suitcase to the door and the woman was
already seated in a wheelchair. When she asked how much she owed
me, without thinking, I said nothing and bent to give her a bug .
It was my
assistance that helped one of weak
people realize her wish.
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