1) Late at night, me and some other convention goers go to get a cab back to the hotel from being out drinking on the main stretch in town, and the (older) (white bearded) (Pakistani) cab driver says that his meter isn't working, and it's only $15 back to the hotel.
We look at each other, decide to get out, and hail a cab, and that cab driver says no problem, he'll put his meter on.
It's only a bit over $6 back, and we later find out that some people who came home in another cab got charged a flat $12 by their driver.
"You never see cabbies claiming that their meter doesn't work, at least in the U.S.," one of my convention-going colleagues was like.
2) While walking down this busy restaurant strip, this (late middle-aged) (black) (homeless?) guy careens along, holding out to people going by little American flag toothpicks, hoping for money in return.
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