r/funny • u/the_Diva • Dec 28 '17
My cab driver tonight was so excited to share with me that he’d made the cover of the calendar. I told him I’d help let the world see
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u/anniemiss Dec 28 '17
I want to make good humored inappropriate jokes about his lollipop, but ultimately I just want to say that I am stoked because he is stoked.
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u/the_Diva Dec 28 '17
Me too! It came out of nowhere- he was pretty quiet the entire cab ride, but was just too excited to share the photo by the end!
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u/drDOOM_is_in Dec 28 '17
Well, you got him to the top of Reddit, literally.
Good shit, I hope they sell out!
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u/tenshillings Dec 28 '17
The planet express crew tried this once. I'm glad real life is doing a better job of it.
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u/My_Ex_Got_Fat Dec 28 '17
Psh idk what you're talking about, I bought like 10 copies where else am I gonna get Lady Fry lookin so Fyneee as Zap Brannigan said.
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u/laya3d Dec 28 '17
Stoked for the sake of stoked-ness isn't necessarily a bad thing!
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u/EdbertTheGreat Dec 28 '17
it's an endless spiral of stoked-ness from here on out
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u/6EthanG6 Dec 28 '17
I’m stoked that you stoked that I’m stoked that he’s stoked
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u/the_Diva Dec 28 '17
Holy shit, I did not expect this to get so much attention! THANK YOU FOR THE GOLD! I have already attempted to reach out to the cab driver to share the news about his overnight fame, and will post an update as soon as I hear back.
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u/analdominator1 Dec 28 '17
Uber hates him
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u/Not_floridaman Dec 28 '17
Lyft doesn't want you to find out about him.
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u/roartiz Dec 28 '17
10 little-known loopholes your Uber driver doesn't want you to know
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u/crazygrrl Dec 28 '17
I was in NYC a month ago for the first time in my life. I summoned an uber driver pool deal. My uber driver stopped to pick up the next 2 riders but he couldn't find them. So he barely pulled his car over and said he was gonna walk around the block to see if he could find them. So here I am sitting in the passengers seat of a strangers car thats almost blocking a roadway. Suddenly I hear incessant honking. I look back and its a taxi driver trying to get around the car of my uber driver. More honking. I try to ignore it. But the next thing I know someone (taxi cab driver) is knocking on my uber drivers window screaming, "move your fucking car!". I instinctively yelled back, "it's not my fucking car!" Im thankful the cab driver just went back and somehow worked his way around us.
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u/visionhalfass Dec 28 '17
Yeah people are dicks when they use Uber here, they'll request a car and then come downstairs when it shows up, or order a car while still paying their check. So the car is left blocking the road for several minutes and causing a mess. No surprise about the window knocking -- if you're in the way, you're in the way, move. Driver should've stayed with his car, dunno what he was thinking.
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u/RudeTurnip Dec 28 '17
I don’t even bother with Uber when I’m in New York City. Yellow cabs are so ubiquitous, that it’s quicker to grab one than wait for Uber.
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u/TooShiftyForYou Dec 28 '17
He's not just on the cover but also Mr. December
Here's the whole calendar which features plenty of shirtless NYC cab dudes.
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u/nalalala12 Dec 28 '17
This exceeded my expectations
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u/VajjCheese Dec 28 '17
Same. Just bought it for my friend's birthday present.
He'll be satisfied.
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u/fairwayks Dec 28 '17
A portion of each calendar sale will go to University Settlement, America’s oldest settlement house (1886), based in New York City and serving over 30,000 immigrant and working individuals and families every year with basic services like quality education, housing, recreation and wellness opportunities, and literacy programs.
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Dec 28 '17
Mr. January can drive me anywhere he likes, and he can take the scenic route if he pleases.
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u/popsand Dec 28 '17
July tho
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u/Ignoremyanus Dec 28 '17
They sell his picture as a blanket called "Let Tommy Keep You Warm", I cannot stress the importance of this enough.
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u/Ewic13 Dec 28 '17
Is it just me or does Mr. July looke like Shia LaBeouf got stranded on an island, came back, was told he had 10 minutes to get his hair ready, and then they took a photo?
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u/NinjaDefenestrator Dec 28 '17
July is way more attractive than actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf.
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u/kyun1 Dec 28 '17
Is Mr. September eating a cake of himself?
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u/heatinupinaz Dec 28 '17
Dude, check out this video clip of him first seeing his cake. It’s so sweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/nyctaxicalendar/status/935572984680665088?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Eios%7Ctwgr%5Eother
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u/BeckonJM Dec 28 '17
I haven't made a sound come out of my face like that in a long time, I laughed really hard. The BEST shot of all of them.
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u/nativeofvenus Dec 28 '17
I need to find Mr July's taxi route. He could totally take me for a ride (¬‿¬)
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u/MyWifeDontKnowItsMe Dec 28 '17
I'm not gay, but a shirtless cabbie calendar is a shirtless cabbie calendar, and I can work with this.
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Dec 28 '17
Can we get these for every profession?
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u/DumSpiroSpero3 Dec 28 '17
Topless Underwater Archeologist calendar is going to be lit.
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u/shoeshapednugget Dec 28 '17
You can also get a phone case with him on it in the shop. Equally exciting!
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Dec 28 '17
Where can I buy this? It’s my birthday tomorrow and I’d love to gift myself something nice.
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u/annon_tins Dec 28 '17
I hope you have a happy birthday tomorrow u/closetlittle!
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u/Huligan27 Dec 28 '17
I saw that calendar at the calendar kiosk in the tuscon mall in Arizona if you really NEEED it!
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u/BoseSounddock Dec 28 '17
I love random adorable shit like this. I'd never in a million years expect to see this yet here I am grinning ear to ear because a yellow cab driver in New York took a shirtless picture licking a lollipop.
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'Yellow' cab driver or 'yellow cab' driver? The contexts are both fitting but the implications are different.
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u/ironicsharkhada Dec 28 '17
I’m feeling a lot of conflicting emotions right now.
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u/StarlitEscapades Dec 28 '17
At first I thought he looked like Danny Trejo, then I got to December and ... I guess he's Asian? As a fellow Asian, it must be late because I was a little surprised.
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u/thekream Dec 28 '17
makes me wonder how many average normal people we encounter are actually fabulous when not working
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u/Chadohfax Dec 28 '17
Welp, then to the frontpage you go!
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Dec 28 '17
It's like Jackie Chan and Tommy Wiseau had a son
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u/PM_ME_UR_FARTS_GIRL Dec 28 '17
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u/rock_fact Dec 28 '17
I got this for a gag gift for a white elephant exchange last year, and even though it wasn’t a competition, I definitely won.
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u/Sympatheticvillain Dec 28 '17
But July tho...
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u/McNigget Dec 28 '17
What about September? No ones mentioned September and he’s clearly amazing..
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u/_pajmahal Dec 28 '17
Yea it's strange. No one seems to remember particularly the 21st night either
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u/jrobinson37 Dec 28 '17
I got this for my sister for Christmas and she was thrilled! That's so cool you got to ride with him!!
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u/AnthonyChristopher Dec 28 '17
That's lovely. Here is a tiny doodle of this beautiful man. https://imgur.com/otxFESr
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Dec 28 '17
You earned a new follower for this glorious doodle.
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u/OpheliaBalsaq Dec 28 '17
Heh. Fyi, doodle is also slang for penis in Australia.
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u/lazydictionary Dec 28 '17
42k points in less than 2 hours.
In my 9 years those are the most ridiculous numbers I've seen other than the Obama AMA.
Wow.
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u/definitewhitegirl Dec 28 '17
5 hours in with 146k upvotes and double gold made me do a double take at first! But so did Mr. July finger guns
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u/chodeboi Dec 28 '17
Prediction: sold out by morning. This has to be vulcanized—or are you a true OP?
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u/lexiekon Dec 28 '17
By morning? Way earlier than that. This is gold. Gold, Jerry! Gold!
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u/dancingmrt Dec 28 '17
Whoa, tag NSFW! I coulda lost my job viewing such lewdity.
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Dec 28 '17
I like how his eye is focused on you. He wants to see your enjoyment.
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u/laya3d Dec 28 '17
I know. I love it. I would totally buy this calendar and have him sign it. He looks so happy and excited!!
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u/dlodavis Dec 28 '17
I'd fuck him you cant say you wouldn't fuck him.
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u/Inkredaginga Dec 28 '17
I'm not gay or anything, but I would pay $20 for that calendar.
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u/Baenita Dec 28 '17
There is one lady driver in there too. https://nyctaxicalendar.com/
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u/badger991 Dec 28 '17
This photograph is amazing. The set up cannot be a coincidence. The calendar is highlighted by the cabin light, and everything else is properly exposed too!
Correct amount of light on the face of the driver as well. I can see the city outside as it is not darkened. Good contrast. No blurring. Great camera work. This cannot be the work of a phone camera, or is it? I know the tech has come a long way, but kudos to the person behind it.
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u/SlyBriFry Dec 28 '17 edited Dec 28 '17
I don’t know, doesn’t look out of the ordinary for current-generation cell phone cameras. It looks like he just asked the guy to turn on the interior light, instead of using the flash (I try to avoid the flash as much as possible because of how ugly it looks, and I’m no pro). Also, I know iPhones at least have HDR, which would make the city background appear properly exposed. If anything the dark areas are pretty noisy for a DSLR camera. Looks legit to me.
If it WAS a marketing stunt, kudos to the team because this is genius.
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u/Robbbbbbbbb Dec 28 '17
Last Christmas my wife and I came across this and bought it for her brother.
I was absolutely not ashamed to ask the frail old woman at the counter how much the calendar would cost.
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u/blackdesertnewb Dec 28 '17
I wonder how my family would react if my next year's christmas photo was staged like this on my car?
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u/3PinkPotatoes Dec 28 '17
The pottery dude looks like an actor but I can't quite remember who
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u/SEphotog Dec 28 '17
I’m just glad to finally see May mentioned. I’d buy this calendar just for him!
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Dec 28 '17
But why male models?
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u/jsveiga Dec 28 '17
A sexy female taxi driver showing her sexy calendar pictures to random passengers at night in NYC... what could go wrong?
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u/loredon Dec 28 '17
I’m having a horrible Holiday season and this just made my whole month. Thank the whomever there is still joy like this.
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u/thewbirdgetstheworm Dec 28 '17
Mr. Miyagi seems to have gone down a dark, dark road.
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u/TrustMe-ImA-Doctor Dec 28 '17
I honestly never thought I’d live to witness all this yes in one picture
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u/Tsutarja495 Mar 11 '18
Looks like this just overtook "Guardians of the Front Page" as the most upvoted post of all time.
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u/lifewontwait86 Dec 28 '17
I remember about 8 years ago there was an AT&T commercial with people dancing and there was a clip of a cabbie goin dumb hella hard. One night my friends and I are getting drunk and my buddy has to leave so we call a cab to pick him up. It was said cabbie from the commercial and we were stoked. Not in a drunken, arrogant idiotic annoying way; we just thought it was dope to see dude at my neighbor’s house.
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Dec 28 '17
My work has last years version of this calendar and we think it’s the funniest thing ever! Glad to see it really is actual cab drivers and that they’re as fond of it as we are.
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u/TwilightVash Dec 28 '17
This made my day. Seriously that is awesome. Thanks OP and thank you cab driver for being badass enough to lick a lolly on a car hood for a photoshoot.
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u/20171245 Jun 18 '18
This is going to be archived soon so I am commenting so internet historians can see my comments in 1000 years.
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u/ShadowPlayerDK Jun 22 '18
Well if anyone will see your comment in the future it will probably be bots. I don’t believe anybody will have time to dig through billions of comments.
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u/The-Rev Dec 28 '17
For those who like this kind of thing, I found the 2016 calendar
http://www.strangebeaver.com/2015/11/the-2016-new-york-city-taxi-drivers-calendar/
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u/Dom3010 Dec 28 '17
Imagine coming in from a normal day at work and finding out a quarter of a million people (and counting) had liked what you were proud of as a person.
That’s not even counting the amount that enjoyed but didn’t like or scrolled past still. This will be a truly memorable moment in this guy’s life and I hope he finds out the joy it’s brought many others. Little things like this make humanity a better thing to comprehend than the day to day negative, frightening view we get from the media and our governments. We can make it work people.
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u/MissDomi Dec 28 '17
You can get your VERY own copy here
I honestly just wanted to see if it was real. This is amazing.
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u/Stick_and_Rudder Dec 28 '17
Looks like Cisco Ramone in the future after Barry fucked the timeline.
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Dec 28 '17
Man there is just neat stuff you find on Reddit you want to share with normal people but can’t even explain how you came across pictures of shirtless cab drivers.
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u/the_Diva Dec 28 '17
UPDATE: I was able to contact Alex (the cab driver) and just got off the phone with him. He couldn’t believe the attention he has been getting from the photo!! He wanted me to thank everyone for the overwhelming positive feedback. He also invited me to karaoke later :)