For the lovelorn who are burned out by the bar scene, fed up with personal ads or tired of scouring the Internet, there’s another place to look for that perfect date: the back seat of a taxicab.Specifically, Ahmed Ibrahim’s cab.
The 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant sets up blind dates for his single passengers through a free, impromptu matchmaking service he runs out of his yellow cab. He said he finds mates, or at least dates, for about eight people a week. “New York is a very tough city for dating,” Ibrahim mused while driving through the West Village recently. “I have heard a lot of crying in this cab, a lot of fighting and a lot of broken hearts.”
via Chuck Huckaby.
Marketing eYe blog on February 1st, 2005 at 10:22 pm
How does a cab driver become famous?
How does a cab driver become famous? Simple: he starts and runs a match making service - right from the front seat of his cab!…
danakeith on May 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Sounds fun.. Been wondering how does he came up with these idea? Was he been this romantic type to do so.. Or he just want people to meet up and drive them out on a date..?:) hmmm..