A cab driver chronicles her on-the-job life in New York City. Blogging is pervasive, indeed:

Dirt accumulates under her fingernails from handling money all day. She eats hot dogs and brings peanuts for snacking. Once, she had to make an emergency bathroom stop at a passenger’s Brooklyn home.

“The whole way back to the city, I was filled with gratitude, mainly for the fact that I didn’t pee in my pants, but also for the reminder that sometimes humanity can, indeed, be humane,” she wrote.

So far, Plaut says, nothing she would consider “really outlandish” has ever happened while behind the wheel. “Nobody had a baby in the back of the cab,” she said between bites of a cheeseburger at a Brooklyn diner.

Visit Melissa Plaut’s blog.