DO IT ON YOUR OWN TERMS!
It was exciting, sometimes dangerous but fulfilling.
These two women did it on their own terms.
They knew what they wanted to do, and did it.
‘You can never tell what type of person is getting into your car’ says Iris Javed
who has been driving a taxi in New York City for over twenty-two years, ‘and once they’re in your car you have to
deal with it’.
Iris, who drove an 18-wheel truck before scaling down to a taxi, has had her fair share of drunk and troublesome passengers –
and even one who got into her car completely naked.
Karin Holmström has been driving a taxi in Stockholm for twenty years.
She says driving is only a tiny part of the job – ‘you more or less
have to be a mother, a priest and a psychologist’.
She’s doled out relationship advice and consoled the lonely
and although she welcomes all kinds of passengers, Karin has
one hard and fast rule about fast food – ‘they will never
eat hamburgers and hotdogs in my car. I’m not a restaurant!’