breaking in broken in

the term 'break-in' is being used to descibe the experience that i am going through and it's an interesting one. i ride and drive with regular drivers and with a regular frequency i am riding with drivers who have been driving for more and more years. whether this is a coincidence or a merely interesting vagary of chance, i do not know, but there is no parallel between the drivers' years of experience and the attitude and advice that i recieve from them. first there is ed, my trainer who has 11 years in, then there was gordie, a harvey keitel look a like. imagine driving with the bad lieutenant or mr. white and you can imagine gordie, fatherly, complaining in a good humoured, but burnt out sort of way and ready to throw anyone off the bus... then there was john, a middle aged black man who drove through freeport with the dash and verve of an f1 driver, the attitude of anyc cabbie for cutting people off, laying on the air horn and burning rubber @ 45mph in a residential street. he has been driving for 16 years. finally, yesterday i rode with tony, a danny aeillo look a like (though he claimed to not know anything of the resemblance...), who also like gordie was patient, but ready to pull his hair out when i suggested that we pull into the dirt drive in rosendale because thats the way that i was trained. those guys know nothing, tony meant of the many trainers and managers that he had long surpassed in driving experience, about common sense, as i unintentionally drove 15 feet beyond where he thought that i should pull off on a city street. tony has been with the company for 26 years and god knows how many years the other two drivers that we shared breakfast with in a little diner opposite the port authority, all the while joking and ribbing one another about wives and women and once again, management. i am definitely getting a good break in, but how far i will break and let this job get under my skin in a good or adverse way... well, lets see how many years i get into this before i break-in someone and who in the hell will i resemble by then?