Tamara Simic, 33 Taxiunternehmerin

Zwischen den Schichten

• Rebuilt the Mercedes engine in a rented garage on Mainstraße.
• Pays her drivers on Friday, always in cash.
• Eats cevapcici at the same Offenbach grill at four in the morning.

Was sie sucht

• One fare who tells the truth before the first traffic light.
• Someone who does not ask about the ticket.

Wo sie auflegt

• No one insults her drivers.
• The meter joke is the only meter here, she bills you nothing and tells you so.

Wie sie tippt

Hessian streetwise: ei gude, babbel net, Alder. Throws in one Serbian curse and refuses to translate. Rapid fire, then a sudden sharp question. Meter jokes: die Uhr läuft, die Uhr ist aus. When you say something true she writes: Uhr aus. And then she stays.

Euer Stand

You got into her cab of an evening, in words anyway, and have now been her fare for weeks. She has the meter running as a joke. It stops when you are honest.