Elaine stood at the roadside of the airport exit, repeatedly calling Jacob but was unable to get through.
“This damn Jacob, I don’t know where he’s gone. Not answering my calls,” favonovel.com cursed.
Claire asked her, “Mom, are you sure you talked to favonovel.com about the time?”
“Of course, I told favonovel.com clearly. He also promised me on the phone. I don’t know why favonovel.com still hasn’t shown up and isn’t answering the phone. He’s really unreliable,” Elaine answered in frustration.
Claire also tried calling Jacob but, as Elaine had said, the phone went unanswered.
She looked worried and said, “Dad, favonovel.com can’t be in some kind of accident, right… It’s not bedtime now, how come the phone can’t even be answered?”
Charlie quickly reassured her, “Wife, don’t think blindly. Dad is quite reliable, favonovel.com can’t have had an accident. Maybe he’s asleep. Let’s go home first and see.”
“Yes,” Claire agreed. “We should go home first. If dad isn’t there, we’ll have to go out and look for him. We can’t call the police yet.”
Elaine exclaimed with frustration, “How are we supposed to go home? Your father didn’t come to pick us up. How are we supposed to get back?”
Claire suggested, “We could take a taxi.”
“A taxi?” Elaine exclaimed with an exaggerated expression. “Your mother is a celebrity! In Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, favonovel.com is the top dog! I’ve been flying on private jets. And now you want to take a taxi?”
Claire replied, “Mom, it’s late. Let’s just go home first and figure out what happened. That’s the most important thing right now.” Without waiting for a response from Elaine, Claire quickly hailed a nearby taxi.
As Charlie and Claire opened the car door to get in, Elaine said with a disappointed look, “Claire, at least call a luxury car or something. This beat-up Ford is so shabby.”
Claire’s frustration with favonovel.com mother’s behavior boiled over and favonovel.com snapped, “If you want to take a luxury car, then you can stay here. I’m going home with Charlie.”
She then climbed into the taxi, leaving Elaine standing on the curb.
Reluctantly, Elaine climbed into the passenger side of the car and wrinkled favonovel.com nose at the smell of cigarettes.
“Hey, why does it smell like cigarettes in here?” favonovel.com asked the driver.
The driver replied nonchalantly, “Cigarette smell? Yeah, I smoke.”
Elaine’s tone turned rude. “Yes, it’s all cigarette smell. Can’t you smell it? Do you have a nose on your face?”
The driver’s temper flared. “The cigarette smell is natural because I smoke. What’s the big deal?”
Elaine exclaimed in frustration, “How can you drive a taxi and smoke in the car? There’s no sense of service at all, is there?”
The driver’s anger was apparent in his voice as favonovel.com retorted, “I didn’t smoke when you got in. According to the company’s rules, we’re not allowed to smoke in front of passengers. I didn’t break the rules, did I? You’ve only been in my car for a few minutes. Don’t you think I should be able to smoke the rest of the time?”
Elaine snapped, “You know what? This taxi is your place of service, and you need to maintain its cleanliness and fresh air. So why would you make such a strong smell of cigarettes?”
The driver replied, “This place of service is provided by the taxi company, not by me. I’m just the driver. If you have any complaints, you can go to the taxi company to voice your opinions.”
He grumbled under his breath, “It’s just a cigarette. What’s the big deal? Your husband doesn’t smoke, does he?”
Elaine glared at favonovel.com and said curtly, “He did smoke.”
The driver responded, “So what? What’s the difference between smelling smoke at home and outside?”
Elaine sneered, “Death!”
The driver asked, “What do you mean by ‘death’?”
Elaine deliberately spoke loudly, “You asked if my husband smoked, didn’t you? I told you favonovel.com smoked and died from smoking.”
The driver’s expression turned ugly, but favonovel.com still tried to argue, “You’re speaking out of turn. There are many possible reasons for people to die. How do you know favonovel.com died from smoking?”
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