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So last week I had to go back to New York. These trips are usually great because I love the city so much, but this time was a little different. This was the first time this year that I was able to go there and not have to take my bass with me (especially with my black flight case that someone inevitably asks “Hey, is that a gun?”… a question that seems to trigger unrest amonst the couple hundred passengers around me and a question that I’m sure will one day award me a trip to the Homeland Security office before I can make it to the oversized luggage check in). This was also the first time this year that I’ve simply just had to go to meeting, which meant time to enjoy myself and not have to rush back home for a gig or something. I honestly was having a great time until…

…until BlackFist and I got into a little argument with a cab driver. You gotta believe me, I totally had the upper hand in the situation, but the cabbie won in the end. I was trying to end the situation peacefully by just hopping out the cab, but uh, I forgot something important… MY CELL PHONE. I realized it seconds after I hopped out and the cabbie was about half a mile out of the drop off area at LaGuardia. Sucks for me right?? Anyone that knows me knows that my cell helps me to make a living and loosing it crushed my life. Trying not to be defeated, BlackFist and I ran down to the taxi stand one level below just hoping to see this driver… what the heck was I thinking. Man it’s like 80’s outside at 11:00 in the morning and we were going through about 100 cabs that look alike trying to spot a driver that neither one of us hardly remembered. It was just a total lost. I called the Taxi and Limousine Commission and they told me that trying to find it was like trying to find a Gold Fish in the Hudson River… well, maybe I added that last part, but they did say it was pointless. So the moral of the story is, Don’t Argue with cab drivers and always get the Cab Number!!

By the way… I need everybody to send me your phone numbers again. I’m pretty much starting all over again. And I hope none of your pictures end up on the internet!!! Ha Ha Ha… just kidding! No seriously, I’m just playing.