>I was recently at San Francisco airport, where I have to go to the departures level to get a shuttle.
>Immediately I got outside I asked someone (who was smoking) for a light.
>At that time a lady had just finished paying her cabbie. I guess she heard me ask because next thing I knew she handed me her lighter and said "Take this. I'm only going to lose it in 5 minutes anyway.".
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>I though she was one very thoughtful lady and I was most grateful.

That's when you're lucky - I somehow always return late in the evening when there are no more departing flights, and the departures are in a separate building, anyway. I have to poll the cabbies. Which then makes a nice ugly scene - I take the fourth cab (because he had the answer to the light question), and the first cab driver (a black lady) starts bi*ching about discrimination etc. Well, she's right - she discriminated me first. And I'm paying for the ride.