Selective breaking of rules

Cab drivers in Manhattan have scathing opinions on everything like analysts

My colleague follows a strict three-kilometre arc in Manhattan and will not deviate from it under any circumstance. Between our office and our respective hotels — merely a block or two, while New Yorkers think nothing of walking 20 or 30 blocks — she prefers to take a cab, blaming it on her teetering shoes, but on an evening that is so blistery and temperatures have plummeted to minus 6 degrees, when taxis are scarce on the ground and it would be mere minutes even against the gale to reach the safety of our respective hotels, she gives in and