First Time Rider

    Rush hour loomed. The expressway bunched up. Our driver (above) bypassed the congestion by cutting through South Boston. His detour succeeded. He delivered us on time to a downtown appointment. And so ended my first ride in an Uber taxi.
    Ride sharing services are new. They’re popular with riders. But they’re controversial. Traditional cabbies deplore them. Some municipal governments are cracking down.
     New services and new inventions often encounter resistance. A caveman invented the wheel. He probably got laughed at. But not for long. Hauling things around became easier. Next came horse drawn carts. Then came automobiles, and taxis, and Uber.
     Inventions appear, resistance follows, and inventions prevail. The late Robert Kennedy better summed it up: ‘Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.’