Years ago, while in college, I drove a taxi in New York City and yes, I picked up anybody who hailed my cab. For the first four years or so, I drove nights; three in the afternoon to three in the morning, I was behind the wheel trying to earn a living.
One night I picked up a guy for a trip uptown from somewhere near the Village. I didn’t know it then, but later I figured that he might have been working on a routine for stand-up comedy. He started in by asking my opinion of the garbage collection in Manhattan.
As I had never given it much thought, I just offered a few non-opinions, but it was enough to get him started. His thesis was, he said, that a Chimp could do a better job collecting garbage than a human, and wouldn’t need to be paid as much as the union requires.
He gave me this ten-step method of garbage collection by a chimp: