Jack Trunz exhausted Khakendra Pun at night and caught him in his yellow cabin at the Lagardia airport. The Nashville Flight was delayed three hours, causing him to lose a 30th birthday party.
The last thing he wanted was to light up with his taxi driver.
But Trunz, 30, an investment analyst in Manhattan, did not have much choice. Because Schmoozing with clients is what punishment does, arranging them with adult history in Nepal, the 77 jobs he had since coming to the United States in 1991, his exploits as a New York City Cabbie for the last decade, and the 493-page book for his passengers, Mount Everest on the Drewhre-Drewhi Streets, which Self-owned.
He sells Tome from his cabin for $ 39.99, as well as on his website, and half of each sale goes to the Illeri Foundation, a nonprofit he launched to open a medical clinic in a village in Nepal.
Trunz was fascinated.
â € œI was sincerely the view of my day, – he told the post. â € œ I said, â € ˜Tell with more. ™ was one of those situations where I was, like, â € â I want to root
It turns out the face of work some wild meetings on the road.
He claimed he once had a test with a female client – and was held at the point of the gun once another.
In 2020, he took two sons from Midtown Manhattan to bring to the Bronx. One went to Harlem and said his friend’s son would pay.
“At the end of the trip, I said,” How are you going “to pay? I whatever you got.
“I give him my portfolio with $ 60-something, and he also got my phone, so I couldn’t call the police. He just left and I had to understand my way to return to Manhattan,” he continued.
“I had no phone nor GPS, but I felt good about being alive.”
Ask Job, 49, about a list of people he was going over the last decade, and he was given a hand -written notebook filled with names, professions, email and phone numbers of happy people to talk about it. Famous knights include musicians Patti Smith and Glenn Frey, the late receiver of conversations Regis Philbin and actress Lili Taylor, whose photo appears in the book, along with photos of many other passengers who were created to appear.
He chose Royalty Smith Punk a day in Midtown and to vehicle its apartment downtown. He told her about his book and asked her, “Hat what do you do?
He had no idea who she was.
â € œai said she made music and it was also a script, “he said. “It was raining, and she said,” Wait here and I will bring you my books. “She goes to her flat in the rain and delivers three books.”
What he found in amazement.
“I didn’t know it.
“The worst thing is that I was waiting for the printing of my book, and so I didn’t have any copies to give it,” said Page, who sold about 2,000 copies of thick reading.
He said his favorite clients have been one of President Carter’s bodyguards, as well as Terry King, the nephew of the legendary singer “Stand by” Ben E. King.
“We were going from Queens in Manhattan in the appointment of his doctor,” he said for his 2019 meeting with Terry. â € œ I said, ‘What do you do? He said he was a musician in drifters. He said he played with Ben E. King and I started singing ‘Stay of Me’.
This is when Terry discovered: “This is my uncle.â €
Pun – who divorced two children, one of whom lives in New York and the other in Nepal, where his family is still – eventually rented a room from him to Jamaah, Queens. Both men are still in touch.
How about its worse customers? Much to count.
“So many were abusive and threatening and saying I was an illegal immigrant,” said Pun, who was an American citizen since 2010.
â € Pre many people are negative and terrible. But this is part of life.â €
Pun was born in Illeri, a small village in the western Nepal, about 6,700 meters above sea level. There was no running water or electricity; His task was to take care of a flock of buffalo. He dreamed of coming to America and becoming a writer like Jack Kerouac, but he had no money.
When tourists visited, the work always required pencils and notebooks. “€” to make my future, I needed an education, “he said.
One afternoon in the late 1980s, he met with an American backpack called Steve Wright. They hit her, and Wright’s mother, Judith, sponsored work at her home in the Gulf area of San Francisco. He attended high school in Los Gatos, near San Jose, living with Wrights for three years. (Steve Wright died in a car accident 25 years.)
“I feel like his aunt, said the aunt of Steve, Judith Wright, a retired teacher now living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, for the post.
After graduation, work passed the United States, taking strange work in factories, fast food knots, laundry and gas stations, plus sleeping inside his car. After being rejected by agents and publishers, he self-publicized a memory, Dreams of Dreams Dreams, â € in early 1998.
Lorrene Williams met working in a cafe she owns in Washington, Iowa, named Café Dodici.
“He was alone. There was any other nepalese in the area,” said Williams, who sells workbooks in her cafe. â € œheâ € ™ how much workr Hard. He’s one of those characters – people knew and liked.
Pun says he pays $ 1,050 a week to rent his cabin, but Uber and Lyft have eaten in his profits.
â € nomete times I do 200 dollars, sometimes $ 300, sometimes minus, “he said. â € œ nomete times take only three hours riders in a 12-hour change. The only way to survive is selling my books.â €
He lives in an apartment with friends in Sunnyside, Queens, paying $ 500 a month to sleep on the floor of their living room.
Work a philosophical approach.
“Millions of other people are trying to make their future away from home as myelf,” he said. “You can cry and live in misery or continue moving.â €
Jack Trunz also tried to help. He bought two books and donated $ 400 to punish the foundation.
“I wish I could have given them more,” he said. â € œintk for the things we complain about. I feel so lucky to have grown up as I did, to get the education I did, to have the work I have.
“He helped put things in perspective.â €
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