how is it "an utterly ridiculous idea" that he would have the taxi drive past where he lived in order to check out if someone was there waiting for him?
Thanks for asking the question that I'm sure others would ask.....
Perhaps you yourself, can answer that question ...... How much time had passed between the murder of JFK and the alleged Whaley Taxi ride? Twenty minutes?..... Did any law enforcement have ESP?.... The investigators hadn't yet found the so called "Sniper's Nest" and Lee wasn't even known to be missing from the Building at that point. If Lee had been guilty he would have known that nobody could possibly have suspected him just twenty minutes after the murder. So reconnoitering the rooming house would have been utterly without cause and the extended trip would have wasted valuable escape time.
So, you agree Oswald was a fugitive on the run when he left the TSBD after the assassination.
You also agree that Oswald was being set-up and that he is aware of being set-up.
Why shouldn't Oswald expect someone waiting for him if he was being set-up.
It's not a question of how quickly the authorities responded. It's a set-up, which means there could be people sat outside Oswald's place
before the assassination.
Also, twenty minutes is plenty of time for the authorities to find out where he lives.
Oswald doesn't know the SN hasn't been found. He doesn't know how quickly his absence has been noticed.
Oswald is on the run. He wants to check out whether there's anyone outside waiting for him and he doesn't want the cab driver to know where he lives. Better yet, let the driver give police a misleading impression of where he lives.