Short Story: Les, the Cab driver, realises that he should not judge anyone, not even himself

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Les Jones, was a taxi driver in his local community mostly, but he did take longer trips to other municipalities too, as requested of him. Les drove mostly during the day, and he had a hired driver to drive his cab for him at nights, so as to fully utilise the use of his vehicle. One day, Les stopped at a house, in a poorer suburb, to pick up a passenger, who had booked his services. The passenger, unbeknown to Les, was a survivor of the Hitler death camps, and he was treated badly by Les, who had thought that he was just another tramp, drunk, and a nobody. (The guy was old, disheveled, and he appeared to be a bit wobbly on his legs.) Les had told him, to get in, and be quiet. "I do not want anyone whining to me today, especially an old wino, like you", he had said to this old man. Les took him to his destination, a nearby brothel. Les thought that the man was going inside, but instead, the old man waited around the outside, until, another man came out, and greeted him. Les knew this other man, who was the mayor of the larger city, that the suburb where the old man had been picked up from, was a part of. Les then thought, to himself, that his passenger must have been somebody of note too. The mayor beckoned to Les, and Les drove over, and they both got into his cab, the mayor, and this old man. Les drove them back to the town hall, and all the way there, the mayor was asking questions of this old man, obviously in awe of him. It turned out that this man was a famous author, and survivor of the death camps. He had penned a book of his experiences there, entitled not "My struggle", (A book authored by Adolf Hitler himself), but, "My survival amongst fellow strugglers." We should treat each person that we meet as being worthy of our very best treatment towards them, no matter who they are, or who they appear to be, or even who they have once been. Every person should be treated with respect for their being of themselves alone. We should judge no-one else, not even ourselves, should we ever judge. Give the benefit of any doubt to all. "Sometimes, it's the ones who we know the least about, that we judge the most.” Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Les drove his cab around, mostly in the fifties, and the sixties, of the last century, the 20th century.