Story of two yellow taxis: One in Santiago de Cuba and another in Miami

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” he says.Charles Dickens at the beginning of his novelHistory of two cities.

Santiago de Cuba andMiami It seems that they intertwined their stories this weekend through a tiny, but striking fact.

In the first,A taxi slid without a driver down a sloping street and ended up stuck in a ditch. In the second, another taxi executed an impossible stunt and ended up stuck on a staircase.

In the first, the taxi driver had made a momentary stop when the car suddenly slid down “the busy Morro highway avenue,” according to reports insocial networks.

In the second, we do not know what happened for a Yellow Cab to end up on the stairs of a residential building in Miami-Dade. But users had a laugh on the event siteOnly in Dade.

“It was the age of wisdom, and also of madness; the time of beliefs and disbelief; the era of light and darkness; the spring of hope and the winter of despair. We possessed everything, but we had nothing; We walked straight to heaven and got lost on the opposite path.”

What is Dickens up to in all this? There is no explanation for his sudden appearance. Nor is there any for the mystery that two taxis embodied in these two cities. You will have to read the novel, or forget what you have read in this whimsical note.