Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Meter
“You’re not gonna run the meter while I go in the store are you?”
My passenger inquired.
“What do you tell your boss when he asks you to punch out and work off the clock for free?”
I asked him and explained
“The meter is a cab driver’s time clock and you’re my boss.”
He didn’t say anything,
And I told him that I would give him
Two free minutes,
Before I’d start the meter.
At $40.00 per hour,
That amounts to about $1.32
That I’ll lose,
But then what the heck.
In Luke 6:38,
Where another account of
Jesus’s “Sermon on the mount”
Is documented,
With variations from that found
In the Gospel of Matthew.
I think an exact quote would
Be more appropriate
Than a paraphrase.
“didote, kai dothesetai umin metron kalon pepiesmenon….”
Basically what the Greek translates to
In English is
“Give and it shall be given to you, good measure pressed down….”
Remember that two thousand years ago
In fact
Even a hundred years ago
Civilization was agrarian
With food production
A top priority.
Before there was money
There was bartering
Before there were credit cards
There was gold
Everything was measured by weight
Or volume
A light weight
Or
A watered down volume
Was the epitome
Of evil.
I was ready to start the meter
When my passenger
Came running out of the store
Yelling
See I told you
I’d be quick
When we got
To his destination
He gave me a
Five dollar tip
And told me
That he didn’t
Know that cab drivers
Didn’t get an hourly wage.
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