Indecent Proposal
I picked the couple up at the international airport. They were German, the girl around twenty-four, the man around forty-five. Still, from the way they talked and held on to each other, I got the impression that they were husband and wife. He had a hand on her waist, in the manner of one who married a young wife and is proud of the fact that it was out of love. As a taxi-driver in the rapidly expanding city of Islamabad, I have learned to derive characters of potential passengers with a single...