[lbo-talk] Blind Date cabbie finds love for desperate New Yorkers

Sujeet Bhatt sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 10:20:49 PST 2005


Blind Date cabbie finds love for desperate New Yorkers By Tom Leonard in New York (Filed: 01/02/2005) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/01/wcab01.xml

New Yorkers looking for love in a notoriously lonely city have found an unlikely ally: a cab driver.

Ahmed Ibrahim, inspired by the many fares who complain to him about their difficulties in finding a date, has started a matchmaking service. He says he finds dates for about eight passengers a week.

He records a brief conversation with them as they express an interest in meeting Mr or Miss Right and, after taking their telephone number, tries to find someone appropriate from his database.

Mr Ibrahim, 50, an Egyptian immigrant, does not charge for the service, insisting, with echoes of Cilla Black on the television show Blind Date, that his only wish is one day to be invited to the wedding of a couple he has brought together.

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