One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for April 11, 2020

Close Ruthie, she give lap dances inside taxicabs, but you’re too young to understand that.

Either seems entirely plausible…

Dances With Taxicabs…Kevin Costner’s first idea for the movie before he decided to go with wolves…

I’ve never heard that term. What does it mean?

They’re pretty much out of business too, Miss Lucille.

Things are so tough my paperboy gave ME a tip.

That’s one thing I’m not noticing this spring: yard sales. I did see one table of free stuff after a move, on the street directly behind my apartment, so I’m staying socially one block from my house. One item on the table was David Macaulay’s The Way Things Work with the pages actually glued together.

She’ll be your private dancer.

apparently nobody pays attention to history or read anything about it because if they did they would know what a taxi dancer was, it’s amazing

A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a partner dance. Taxi dancers are hired to dance with their customers on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United States, male patrons would typically buy dance tickets for a small sum each.

The meter is running!! The more dances you dance with her, the more nickels she collects.