Matt and I got stopped by the Cash Cab tonight!

We were walking home from dinner when Matt spotted a taxicab idling on the street. “I think that might be the Cash Cab,” he said. “Cash Cab” is a game show on the Discovery Channel that one of our friends was on recently. Passangers ride around Manhattan in a taxicab and the driver asks them trivia questions that win them money. Sometimes, if they need help, they can stop a pedestrian on the sidewalk.

Sure enough, as we walked past, a woman stuck her head out the window and asked us if we could help her answer a question. She was in there with two other female contestants and the driver. I peered in to look at the driver and saw that it was definitely Ben, the “Cash Cab” host.

The question was this: The Weather Channel gives a local weather forecast every ten minutes starting a certain number of minutes after the hour. What is the number?

First I said that they do the weather on the 8s. But then I thought to myself, no, that’s when WCBS News Radio 88 does their weather forecast. So I said maybe it was the 1s. Matt said he thought it was on the 10s. I disagreed. The women only had 15 seconds to answer the question. Finally we told them they should go with the 10s. They did.

Wrong! It was the 8s.

Oops.

We said goodbye and then a woman walked up to us with release forms to sign.

And then we continued walking home from dinner.

Just another night in Manhattan.