Oleg Roitman and Andrew Vollo
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“My nickname is the Human Computer.”
New York City cab driver Oleg Roitman (L) tells fellow cab driver Andrew Vollo (R) about entertaining passengers.
Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more taxicab driver stories.
Oleg Roitman and Andrew Vollo
Interview transcript
OR: My name is Oleg Roitman. My nickname is the human computer. If you tell me, in Russian, Hebrew or English, the date, for example the date of your birth. In less than a second I will tell you on which day of the week you were born, Monday, Tuesday etc. To prove my answers are correct, I always carry a book with calendars from 1900 to 2020. For example. two passengers got in my cab, a male and female, they asked me to take them to Penn Station. I began to drive. The guy, he say “I was born on April 14, 1973″, I said, “Saturday”, “Oh yes yes yes, correct” (passenger), he paid me double the meter.
I am probably the most slow driver on the road. Everybody passes me by. But very often people tell me, “you are the best cab driver for all
