The taxi driver was a man in his late thirties. He picked me up and
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me to my place. I usually like to have brief
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with people no matter where I come upon them and this situation was no
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.
I started by asking him how
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was. He told me briefly that his business was just
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but the cost of gas was really hurting his
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line. We then got around to
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the job environment. He told me that he had difficulty getting another type of work because of his
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. "I used to be a con(罪犯)," he said
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"People look at my record and then I"m
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, but you know I"ve turned my life around and have been
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for several years. You don"t seem to be at all
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that you are riding with a con" As we parked at my place, I thought about my
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for a few seconds. "It is never easy to start a new
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," I said, "but I"m glad you are starting. If you don"t want to drive taxi for the
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of your life, then you can move
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to some other job you may be
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."
The driver seemed to be quite
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as he took my money. "What you said to me makes a lot of
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," he said. "I will remember your
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and that you were real easy to talk with—I hope to see you again."
A．famous for B．interested in C．regretful over D．afraid of