Do you like meeting cab drivers? I sure do. Especially when they have Forgive Them For The Know Not What They Do written in shivery handwriting on a post it on the dashboard. But it turns out this guy was not a Christian, he was an Iranian, who was a communist. He had gotten that way after losing 200,000 dollars in the stock market.
He spoke six languages, and at least the French bit I could verify. He told me he went to engineering school in Germany, before moving to Brazil.
He also told me he has a kid, by artificial insemination. I never heard a man say that before. It turns out his girlfriend wanted a kid, and he artificially inseminated her. Now, he told me, they live together but do not have sexual intercourse.
So that was good to know.
He also told me they selected the sex of the child, a girl, which wasn¹t that surprising, but that they also selected her to be intelligent, which was news to me. But now that she is a year and half old, it is already a problem, because she is learning to speak four languages so far, and can swim and do all sorts of stuff a kid that age shouldn¹t be able to do, and they have a handful to deal with.
He also told me he felt the United States, and the World, need to be
destroyed, to get to a better place. He mentioned Allah a lot, but the
better place seemed not to be heavenly reward of Islam, because he was keen on talking about space exploration. That is where he seemed to hold out hope for the future of mankind.
He also told me that when he had a gun pointed at him in Brazil, he
impressed his assailant, by saying I come in one time, I go out one time, I am not afraid.