Once while driving cab in Seattle, Sam Schulmann, the owner of the Seattle SuperSonics at the time, walked out of the Westin Hotel and got in my cab.

It was a short trip up to the Sonics office but I had time to advise him to draft Jo Jo White instead of Lucius Allen, who was renowned primarily for having played with Lew Alcindor, aka Karreem Jabbar, at UCLA. He thanked me for the advice, said they had guys looking it over. They took Allen, 3rd pick overall -- he washed out after a couple of years -- Jo Jo White was a starter and integral part of the Boston Celtics for about 10 years, and we could have got him.

Oh yeah, I brought this up because my very next fare, sitting in the same spot in the back seat, was the roughest, sorryist looking wino I'd seen in a month or two, complete with fresh wounds on his face. He did have cab fare, however.

Point being, they's high and low ever-where.

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