So, due to certain copyright issues I've changed the name of the 'Taxi Talk' segment to 'Travellin' Time'. Fits better anyway for the Trinbago vernacular.
SITUATION: WHO REALLY NEED THE SLAP?
A woman jumps into a taxi with a man to the back and a lady to the front. The car is evidently waiting to pick up a last passenger when an old frail man crosses the road and begins to advance towards the car to enter. As the man slowly reaches for the door the driver says to him.
"Nah, pappy, I ain' going up."
"What?" the old man asks through the window.
"I say I ain' taking you!" the driver repeats.
"Look, f**k you, yes!" the old man says to him and limps off to another car. As the old man walks to the next taxi, he is turned down by each of them in turn until finally he gets into one.
The male passenger to the back of the first car finally asks the driver.
"Buh, wha' goin on drive? How alyuh treatin' daddy so?"
"Nah," the driver answers, "if it only had man in the car I woulda take a chance but he like to feel up woman and thing."
(Say what?)
"That old man?" the woman to the front asks.
"Yeah, he sit down in the back dey ah time, pinching up a school girl breast and she start to cry easy, easy. I ain' even know until the girl stop out. And I wondering why she come out before she school entrance. Is one ah the passengers in the back make him out. I say not me picking up he again."
As the conversation continues, the passengers get to realise that on the taxi stand he is a known molester of women in taxis and it has happened more than once with several drivers.
The two ladies and the driver seem to agree but the man to the back thinks they are being a bit harsh.
"Look how old the man is. He could barely walk good, I fine alyuh shouldn't leave him standing up on the stand so long," the male passenger adds.
"I doh care who vex," the driver says, "I ain' hitting him, I ain' hurting him but I not encouraging them thing in my car."
"The driver trying to look out for the young ladies an them, sir," the older lady says to the man at the back, "if it was your daughter travellin' with a man like that, yuh would want somebody to seek her interest for you!"
Well, fellow Trinbagonians? What do you think? Are the drivers right in what they are doing or do they need to show a little more compassion to a frail, albeit fresh, old man?
Leh meh hear yuh nah?!
Trinbagonian Baby
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