Safety THIRD'

This is Shawn.



And this is Shawn's cab.

One thing you realize when you get stationed at Camp Pendleton, or pretty much anywhere on any military base. If you do not have a car or have a very close friend with a car, you are going to get very used to riding in cabs from one place to another because that is pretty much your only source of transportation; besides your feet. And your feet are not going to get you to the mall which is a twenty minute drive from your barracks room. Unless you want to be walking for like five hours there and then five hours back.

Which no one does.

So back to Shawn, he is our awesome cab driver. For the first week or two of my stay in lovely Camp Pendleton, we were pretty much forced to call the taxi dispatch and simply wait for them to send the closest driver to us, which got us some very interesting taxi drivers along the way. Some of which we would rather not see ever again. But then we happened to be sent Shawn, and ever since that day he became our cab driver. For some very simple reasons, which include:

1. He is a great driver and gets us to where we are going in great time.
2. He is always available, well between the hours of eight in the morning and usually three or four the next morning, I swear this man never sleeps.
3. He always makes the ride interesting, and never seems to run out of stories to tell.
4. He plays the role of driving physiologist, whenever we happen to have something to share. Gives out pretty good advice to.
5. He has never over charged us and sometimes offers us an awesome discount.
6. He bought me a delicious breakfast burrito at around one in the morning on the way back from a hotel party one night.
7. He almost always makes a reference to at least one superhero during our rides
8. And last but not least, he follows his motto 'Safety third' with speed and velocity.

So, I would just like to say. If there ever is a contest for the best taxi driver; I will be putting in my vote for Shawn.