Fasting from sunup to sundown, not an easy thing.

I was chatting about this with our backup cabbie, Jesse, a Filipino grandfather who loves Country and Western music. And he had an interesting take on the rogue-cab-driver situation I referred to the other night.

He has a suggestion for the horrific driving we’ve seen the past few weeks:

Jesse believes the guys wandering all over the road … might be Muslim cabbies who are fasting.

“You must have water and food to feed the brain,” Jesse said.

He actually believes that most of the Muslim cabbies pulling shifts during the day — and some of these guys work 16 hours at a shot — are sneaking food and water during their workday. “Otherwise, they cannot drive so long,” he said.

But he nodded when I finally made the connection between fasting drivers and erratic driving. “You cannot work without eating,” Jesse said.

Mystery solved? Maybe so.

And Ramadan ends on Wednesday. Eid al Fitr, the biggest holiday on the Islamic calendar, begins on Thursday and extends through Sunday. Every government office in the country will be shut down for five days.