What you see is what you get

On the drive up to NYC, I was passed by a NYC Yellow Cab with Jersey plates. Odd. I also noticed the medallion number on the top and the side was X'ed out with black electrical tape.

As traffic ebbed and flowed, I ended up getting next to this cab and saw the driver was a 60's white/Jewey looking woman with crazy hair and her dachshund in the back of the cab.

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So you wonder: is this a real cab driver taking a dog someplace? Is this a woman who bought a cab from a NYC cab company after its life as a cab was over? If so, why is she shuttling her tiny little dog around in the back of it like the dog is a passenger?

Science needs to find this woman, and study her.