That just might be one of Melissa Plaut's claims to fame, ABC News reports:

"Out of New York City's 44,000 licensed cabdrivers, she is one of only 400 female cabbies who get behind the wheel every day. With women making up just 1 percent of the city's taxi work force, Plaut says many of her customers are surprised when they get this college-educated, native New Yorker as their driver.

"'Most passengers comment on the fact that I'm female by just telling me that I'm female.' said Plaut, who also happens to be gay and Jewish... 'It's safe to say that I'm a bit of an anomaly.'"

Plaut blogs at New York Hack.

"'When I started the blog, it was primarily just for my friends. I got a digital camera for my birthday, and I started taking pictures of what I saw on cab shifts. I started loading them online and e-mailing them to friends and putting in captions. They wrote more words. They asked for more words, and I started writing longer and longer stories after every single shift. So the blog turned into stories behind the wheel.'

"Eventually, Plaut's musings caught the attention of publishers at Random House, which landed her an offer to turn her Web site into a book, thus giving life to 'Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do With My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab.'"

Someone call Danny DeVito. I smell a "Taxi" remake in here somewhere...