Just get us there

“‘We don’t want rapists or sexual deviants driving cabs,’ an official of the City of Boston Cab Association was once quoted as declaring. However, most Bostonians would gladly travel to their destinations with a sexual deviant if only said driver could be counted upon to know the way.’’

— Nathan Cobb, in “Taxing Toward a Fun City,’’ from CITYSIDE/COUNTRYSIDE, by Mr. Cobb and John N. Cole (1980)