Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Only God Can Make A Brick
By Miss Alli | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 08.30.2004
Back at Wild Wadi, Karen runs out with the Amazing Purse, as Linda calls a taxi driver over to ask how to get to the airport. "I go there, come," he says. Notice that he didn't really say he was going there anyway. He could just as easily have been saying, "I'll go there, and you follow." It's just not clear. "Okay, we follow you!" Linda hollers. She needs a volume knob surgically implanted, stat.
Again at Wild Wadi, Chip and Kim bail out of the cab and jump back into the McSUV, realizing that they have made a large mistake. Or, as Chip calls it while he's driving to the airport, a "major faux pas." "Just get me to the airport," Kim says. I am distressed by their persistent failure to read the clues. I love them, but they are not big readers.
Linda and Karen get to the airport, and Linda goes over to give a "tip" to the cabbie they followed. He tracks her back over to the McSUV, and tells her that the tip won't do -- his meter says 41 dinar. Of course, Linda takes this to mean "41 dollars," for some reason. She says, "No, no, no." "Come see my meter!" he says to her. "We don't have 41 dollars," she says sharply. In an interview, she says disbelievingly that the cab driver expected to be paid his fare, rather than the five-dollar tip (ack) she offered. Trying to exit the situation without paying any more money, Linda and Karen just head inside the airport, not having learned anything about unpaid cab drivers from Colin's escapade last week. Sure enough, next thing you know, the cab driver is pointing Linda out to a security guard, who heads over. As the Moms wait in line, Karen says she just wants to get out of there, and Linda says, "The taxi guy's scary." Now, I ask you, what about the taxi guy has been "scary" so far, other than that he believes he's owed his fare and isn't letting them leave without paying it? There hasn't been any screaming, threatening, haranguing...and it's not like he's some huge, threatening dude, either. He's a little balding guy. I'm not crazy about that characterization. At any rate, he comes over, says "Excuse me" (wow, SCARY!), and hands Linda her five bucks back. She tries to tell him to keep it (heh), but he's like, "Yeah, no, METER, lady." She insists that he told her he was going to the airport "anyway" (nope), so they just followed him. Linda is now invited to a private conversation with the taxi guy and the guard. Which is not a private conversation she particularly wants to have.
Linda explains her position, which is that she thought the guy was just going to the airport anyway, and that they weren't expecting to pay full fare, or they wouldn't have followed. Of course, she is basing this on the assumption that he wants 40 dollars, despite the fact that he keeps saying 40 dinar. The security guard asks Linda to come to an office, and she knows she doesn't want to do that, as she explains in a voice-over. Back in line, Karen worries about Linda and hopes she'll be all right. Maybe if she yells more, that will help.
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