Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie – “Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue”
I just picked up a couple in front of Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall and the vibe that they are giving off is really strange. I would guess that they’ve probably been at Drai’s because they’re dressed up and the girl looks really tired. Aside from the initial directions they haven’t said a word to each other (or me) since they got in the cab, but it doesn’t seem like they’ve been fighting or anything. I usually find it rather strange when it happens, but people frequently act as if they’re in some sort of automated conveyance – I might as well be a robot for all the notice I’m given. Though, I must admit, sometimes I prefer it. I let them sit in silence.
The guy seems preoccupied and blankly stares off into the distance. I’m almost to their hotel when his revelation breaks the silence. “I think that was a guy.”
The girl, jolted out of her reverie and no longer in standby mode, responds with a mostly confused “What??”
“The one in blue,” he elaborates, but she still doesn’t seem to get it. The guy holds on to the pause like a child might clutch their blanket. That blanket is unceremoniously snatched away. “…that I was dancing with.” These words are pregnant with concern about what the girl will think and – for a brief second – his admission quiets the cab.
(He really doesn’t seem to care that a stranger knows about his transgression against heterosexuality. I mean, he’ll probably never see me again and it’s not like I’ll tell the story on the internet or anything, right?)
Meanwhile, the girl – now obviously annoyed that she wasted some of her precious remaining energy on this exchange – ends the conversation with “I told you that on the dancefloor.”
The moral of this story might be: good friends will watch out for you and if you don’t listen to them you deserve the embarrassing things that happen to you.
Edit: Would you like to hear the two songs referenced in the title of this post performed as one? If so, listen to Robert Scott play Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue.
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