Taxi I From time to time I am going to be a taxi driver. It happens when I have gapes in my main job. I could not say I often take a taxi. But when I do it I always try to have a talk with a drive

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Sergey

Taxi I From time to time I am going to be a taxi driver. It happens when I have gapes in my main job. I could not say I often take a taxi. But when I do it I always try to have a talk with a driver. I have to admit I am not a people person. I just force myself to kick a small talk off, I take it as an exercise. To be honest I could not say all of them are pleased me. But I have known a bit of information from each of them. There are fairly clever fellows among of them. I even do not mean that I have met well-educated taxi drivers. But I am really fascinated by their common sense.

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Taxi I

From time to time I work as to be a taxi driver. It happens when I have gaps in my main job.
I could not say I often take a taxi, but when I do it I always try to have a talk with the driver. I have to admit I am not a people person. I just force myself to kick a small talk off, I use it as an exercise.
To be honest I could not say I like all of them. But I have learnt a bit of information from each of them. There are fairly clever fellows among them. I don't even mean that I have met well-educated taxi drivers, but I am really fascinated by their common sense.

Points to remember:

* be going to is used to talk about the future and not the present - "I'm going to work as a taxi driver next year"

* don't start a sentence with a conjunction (but)

* use "the" when there is only one or only one in one specific place "the taxi driver" (because there is only one in the car)

* I love that you have tried to use a phrasal verb here, you are right that "to kick off" means to start something, however it usually means to start a fight or argument not a conversation.

I hope this is helpful, let me know if you have any questions :-)

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