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It was 7:00 am in Paris,France,and the taxi company had just called a second time to say they couldn't find my again I spelt out_41_even a blind person could follow.I glanced_42_at my watch,and two hours remained_43_my flight left—and it was one and a half hours'_44_to the airport.

Outside,heavy rains were_45_ house was so far north in the city that buses_46_only three times a day.

The telephone rang again."Terribly sorry,"began the man at the taxi I realized that the taxi company,flooded with calls,could only_47_in-city runs.I had heard this happens when the_48_gets bad.I_49_ into the phone that I had a_50_to catch and I would meet the taxi outside my house.

Standing in the wind-driven rain,I looked_51_the taxi.A car went by,the driver and passenger staring at the_52_foreigner in the downpour.

_53_a white car appeared and_54_to a stop.A young man threw open the door,waving to me to get ing with cold and_55_,I climbed in.

In the most_56_French,the man said he was called Will,with whom I had spoken three times that had left his post in the office and_57_here in his personal _58 _again,but didn't explain why no taxi would pick me up_59_me straight to the airport,he refused the 2,000 franc I pressed into his hand.

A few hours later,as the storm-delayed plane_60_,I opened the the second page my eyes caught the headline of a short article: Taxi Strike Begins This Morning in Paris.

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