TAKEN FOR A RIDE
TAKEN FOR A RIDE
📍 SCENE: The crew is standing on the sidewalk after a night out. It's late, and they just wanna go home.
🟥 MG: Aight, call a taxi.
🟨 OV: Man, why not just get an Uber?
🟩 GU: Uber? Nigga, we tryna get home, not get hit with surge pricing.
🟥 MG: Fr. Ain’t tryna pay 50 bucks to go five blocks. Call a taxi, they still scamming, but at least it's a fixed scam.
🟨 OV: dials taxi service Yeah, we need a cab at—
👴 Taxi Driver: It’ll be there in 5 minutes.
🟩 GU: 5 minutes? That means 30.
🟥 MG: Nigga, they lying through they teeth. A taxi saying 5 minutes is the biggest cap ever.
🟨 OV: Watch this. It’s gon’ be some beat-up-ass 2005 Toyota Corolla.
🟩 GU: Nigga, that car been through the trenches. Probably got half a million miles and still ain’t died.
A busted yellow taxi pulls up, looking like it barely survived the apocalypse.
🟥 MG: Ayo, look at this shit. Check engine light been on since the Bush administration.
🟨 OV: Nigga, the whole car built outta duct tape and prayers.
🟩 GU: This joint look like a GTA NPC car.
🟨 OV: Aight, let's get in.
They get in. The car smells like a mix of cigarettes, sweat, and mystery funk.
🟥 MG: sniff sniff Nigga, this taxi smell like a mechanic’s armpit.
🟨 OV: Nah, this shit smell like expired air freshener and regret.
🟩 GU: Bro, why the seats sticky? I ain’t tryna leave here with some unknown substance on me.
🟥 MG: Nigga, I feel like I just sat in a crime scene.
🟨 OV: Ayo, driver, turn on the AC.
👴 Taxi Driver: AC? It broken.
🟩 GU: Nigga, how everything in this car broken?
🟥 MG: Fr, no AC, no seatbelts, no shock absorbers… what DO work?
🟨 OV: That rigged-ass meter.
🟩 GU: Facts. Nigga ain't got working brakes, but the meter spinning like a slot machine.
🟥 MG: Fr. Every second, that shit jumping up like my bank account don’t got feelings.
🟨 OV: Nigga, we still at a red light, how the fare go up $3?
🟩 GU: Man, taxi drivers got faster hands than casino dealers.
🟥 MG: Ayo, where’s the aux? Let’s get some music goin’.
👴 Taxi Driver: No music. You like radio?
He turns on the radio, and it’s nothing but static.
🟥 MG: Nigga, this ain’t a radio station, this is Morse code.
🟩 GU: Why every taxi got the worst stations on Earth? It’s either the news, some opera shit, or a dude yelling in a language you don’t understand.
🟨 OV: Nigga, I swear this the same station from every bodega.
🟥 MG: Yo, driver, you good? You driving kinda wild.
👴 Taxi Driver: Traffic crazy today.
🟩 GU: Nigga, what traffic? We in a residential street at 2 AM.
🟨 OV: This nigga driving like he late to his own funeral.
🟥 MG: Fr, he swerving, running reds, cutting people off—
🟩 GU: Nigga, this ain’t Fast & Furious, relax!
🟨 OV: Bro, why all taxi drivers think they in a Need for Speed game?
🟥 MG: Nigga got one hand on the wheel, the other holding his phone. We dead.
🟩 GU: Bro, we really one pothole away from meeting God.
🟨 OV: Ayo, how much we owe?
👴 Taxi Driver: $48.
🟥 MG: Nigga, we went five blocks.
🟨 OV: Yo, how the meter jump from $20 to $48 in two minutes?
🟩 GU: Nigga really hit us with the 'foreigner special.'
🟥 MG: Man, fuck it, let’s just pay before this nigga locks the doors.
🟩 GU: Fr. Ain’t tryna get kidnapped.
🟨 OV: Nigga, he might take us on a scenic tour of the entire city just to add more to the fare.
🟥 MG: Aight, we out. Next time, we walk.
🟩 GU: Nigga, I’d rather take the bus before I do this again.
🟨 OV: Next time, we stealing a bike.