When we arrived at the doctor's office today there was a young mom with her infant in the car seat waiting. After a few minutes one of the receptionists remarked that he was going to call the cab company again.
It turned out she had been waiting for about 30 minutes for a cab to come and pick her up. The receptionist said the cab would be another 10 min.
We went in, had our appointment, chatted with the doctor, waited for the nurse to give the baby some shots, and came back out again. We must have been gone for at least 20 minutes.
The young mom was still there. Waiting for a cab.
And this was in a more suburban than urban area, during rush out traffic.
I obviously don't know what her story was. I assumed that she was poor and had no car.
Poverty, i.e. the lack of car ownership, translates into one big waste of time -- waiting and relying on public transportation to get around.
(But who knows, maybe there was another reason why the woman was waiting for a cab)
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