Scene on the Street

When and where: Friday, 7 April, approximately 8.45 AM. Chicago's Gold Coast.

A woman, dressed in a lime green chanel coat, with perfectly coiffed hair. Walking around the middle of an intersection vigorously trying to flag down a cab.

Seen at same time and location: a number of cabs studiously ignoring the woman in the lime green coat with perfect hair walking around the middle of the intersection trying to flag a cab.

Note to woman in lime green coat: If you can't hail a cab from the curb, or the side of the street, or the middle of the street, or the middle of the intersection, you may want to consider why the cabbies don't want to stop... for you.