While traveling in an Uber from Hallendale Beach to the Fort Lauderdale airport this week, I was fascinated by a series of phone conversations my driver had during the ride.
The man did not speak much English, but was fluent in Spanish.
I asked him where he was from – he said recently from Venezuela. He was listening to Spanish radio. He was young, late twenties, and in shape, very dark skinned, in good health.
The phone attached to ‘hands free’ mode rang in the car and the man answered. On the other end of the line, was what I would call an adult female, white, and highly educated. She was acting very ‘compassionate’, and you could tell she believed she was virtuous and ‘doing the right thing’.
She obviously worked for some progressive NGO and had been doing what she was doing for this NGO for some time – she seemed ‘experienced’.
She was calling to confirm the man for an appointment in south Florida for magnetic resonance imaging, otherwise known as an MRI.
This is an expensive medical procedure to scan a portion of a body and obtain internal images, to look for medical problems.
Hellbound and Down 