My dad drive a taxi cab when I was a kid
It's quite a noble profession, conveying passengers between locations of their choice all day, very useful for people too.
I just remember the cab was yellow and dad always worked long hours in the city
That does seem typical of the profession. Taxicab is an interesting word, it's actually a combination of the words taximeter and cabriolet.
I never knew that what else do you know about a taxicab?
Well I know the taxicab system of New York began around 1907, when Harry Nathaniel Allen imported 600 taxicabs from France.
Oh wow is that where cabs originated?
Well I think it may have been in Germany, because Taximeter is an adaptation of the German word taxameter.