4: justification by print

an·chy·lo·sis
1. (anatomy) the consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.
2. (pathology) the stiffening and immobility of a joint as the result of disease, trauma, surgery, or abnormal bone fusion.

This cabbie fucked me on the way to work this morning. I get in the car, put on my seatbelt, tell him where to go, normal as you'd like. Then the guy pulls out a book and starts reading. I don't mean like, glancing through the headlines at intersections. I mean he had a novel propped up on the fucking steering wheel and he wasn't even looking at the road.

After about three minutes of this, I asked him what the fuck he thought he was doing.

He didn't look up. "4% of Americans read while driving," he said.

"That's a bullshit statistic," I said, my heart thumping in my chest. "You found it on the internet."

"No," he replied. "I read it."

What the fuck was I supposed to say to that?