Taxicab confessions, gas and idiots
We approached Discount Cab driver Dennis Curcio while he was filling up his tank at Jett’s Wildcat, 501 N. Park Ave.
Wildcat: All right, you’re on the spot. If you could fill up your car with any liquid besides gas, what would it be?
Dennis Curcio: Ethanol.
W: Is it cheaper?
C: It’s supposedly cheaper but it isn’t. It’s in use right now.
W: So you wouldn’t fill it up with orange juice or lemonade or anything?
C: No, vodka.
W: Oh that would be good. Do you think your car would get drunk?
C: Probably take it in the wrong direction.
W: That’s a new meaning for drunk driving. Even if you’re sober, you could go off a cliff or something. Okay, tell me honestly, do you like the smell of gas stations?
C: No.
W: ‘Cause I do. Everyone says that they don’t, I just kinda you know. Oh man. Do you ever go to the gas station and after you’re leaving, you’re like, “”I got gas,”” and then you laugh to yourself?
C: Say what?
W: Do you ever go to the gas station and after you leave, you’re like, “”Haha, I got gas,”” and then you laugh?
C: Nope.
W: Oh, I do that a lot. You know, like the pun thing. Like, gas…
C: I understand, but no. If I went to a Mexican restaurant, then yeah.
W: Yeah, sometimes I go to a Mexican restaurant and after I leave, I’m like, “”Haha, I got tacos.””
C: Got a lot of gas.
W: Have you ever been tempted to fill up your car with the engine running just to see what happens?
C: Yeah, I do it.
W: What happens?
C: Nothing.
W: Have you ever seen someone smoke a cigarette and then set it down?
C: I’ve seen a lot of people do that.
W: Has it started a fire?
C: No, ’cause I leave. I don’t know what happens.
W: I wonder how many people die per year just because of gas station explosions.
C: I don’t know because people don’t have too much sense today.
W: I read a fact today that said more people die from donkeys than airplane crashes.
C: Really.
W: I don’t understand how donkeys can kill people, but maybe if they were on the wrong kind of gas, I don’t know.
– Andi Berlin
