A sentence you can start almost any taxi ride with, simply to get a conversation going: How long have you been a taxi driver?
You bang on the back of the driver’s seat (how), reach your hand through a narrow hole in the partition (long) and shake his hands, which are as light as a feather (have). He is wearing a judo belt (you) with bees embroidered on it that fly off to an apple next to the taxi (been a taxi) – and three piglets are standing on the bonnet (driver).