2008/03/12 Tel Aviv
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Never without

Gun

Since the army doesn’t provide me with transportation I’m dependent on a taxi driver to travel from base to base.
Today the taxi driver drove me from Tel Aviv to the Golan Heights and back. Tomorrow we will be going to Eilat.
He seems to be extremely happy with me as customer. His wife is from the Philippines, his third one, he carries always a gun and he loves saying things as: “Life is like a movie.” He doesn’t ask any questions -- that is the good thing about him.
Maybe it is because of his gun. “I go nowhere without her,” he told me proudly today.


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Eilat? I 've read somewhere that the bordello's over there are pretty disgusting... :P
said Joep Smaling 12/03/2008 23:52 • x
What kind of movie does your driver mean by saying Life is like a movie: B-movie, horror movie...?
said Richard van Tol 13/03/2008 00:20 • x
Has he ever used his gun? Or is that inappropriate to ask?
said Dom Kolibris 13/03/2008 02:14 (Updated 02:16) • x
Yes in those precarious life conditions, one needs a lot of reassurance from objects of all kind: weapons, magical amulets, etcetera…

By the way, how was the tank exercise?
said Jan Thys 13/03/2008 08:00 • x
Lots of taxi drivers carry a gun, not only in Israel. In Holland also, but they won't tell you.
said Helen Priso 13/03/2008 16:06 • x
Thanks for the article in De Morgen, hope to read more from you.
said Jan Thys 13/03/2008 18:30 • x
Dom K
I asked him today, he said no.
said Arnon Grunberg 13/03/2008 19:21 • x
Jan T
Cold. Very cold.
said Arnon Grunberg 13/03/2008 19:21 • x
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