In the Shadows
Riding Along in the Fab Cab
by Sarah Mirk
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/in-the-shadows/Content?oid=4048800THE FIRST THING Erica Jones does when she gets in her Radio Cab is take out her mace. Usually, she keeps the mace in a cute leather case attached to her key ring. But when Jones is on the job, Portland's self-described only British, transgender cabbie keeps the conversation funny and the pepper spray always close at hand.
Jones picks me up at 10:30 pm on a Friday in Northwest. A couple of weeks before, a friend had given me her business card—a tantalizing square emblazoned with a phone number and the words "The Fab Cab."
"What's so fabulous about your cab?" I ask, sliding in to the passenger seat next to a GPS-and-radio array that looks identical to the ones in Radio Cab's 135 other vehicles.
