After a long day working in the office, Alexander hailed a taxi to take him home. Squeezing his body into the taxi, he noticed the shiny interior and the smell of brand new leather. After informing the driver of his 11 , Alexander resorted to his reading of Dan Brown’s intelligent thriller, The Da Vinci Code. Five minutes into the journey, he was on page 120: “…his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female…” Suddenly, Alexander 12 and noticed that the driver had detoured from the familiar route. To redirect the driver, Alexander tapped him on the shoulder. Out of the blue, the driver screamed, lost control of the car, and almost hit a bus. The cab went up on the footpath and 13 stopped centimeters away from a shop window. For a second, everything went quiet in the cab. Then the driver said, “Look, mate! Don't ever do that again. You scared the living daylights out of me!” Alexander apologized and said, “I didn't 14 that a little tap would scare you so much.” The driver replied, “Sorry, sir. It’s not really your 15 . Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving a funeral van for the last 25 years.”
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