Why Can't We Get a Camel?

Sheesh. Well, this sets Colin off, and he snarls at her, "We never fucking left it, sorry." Charla and Mirna ignore him and park their asses in the cab. "Our shit is in the car," Colin tells them. They ignore him. "My bags are in the trunk." Interestingly, contrary to the way I remembered it from first viewing, he's not yelling at her at this point. He's clearly annoyed, but his voice is, in fact, barely raised. When Mirna leans out and smirks at him, he repeats, "Sorry, my fucking bags are in the trunk." The cabbie now comes over and tells Mirna, it appears, that she can't have the cab. Christie, actually more snippy than Colin was, says disbelievingly, "Get out, that is so rude." As Mirna and Charla finally get out of the cab, Christie says, "The audacity of these people." Oh, calm down, dear. Nobody says "audacity" that way except easily offended southern grandmothers. As Charla gets out, apparently still complaining, Colin says to her, "Look, my bags are in the trunk," and she snots, "All right, fine, go then, what are you waiting for?" Of course, he's not obligated to leave, Charla -- the point is that it's his cab, and he can run inside if he wants to, because that's his arrangement with the driver, so back it up. To no one's surprise, she and Mirna complain in an interview about how it's like "junior high" and so forth, and "bullies" are trying to put her down. By, I guess, not giving up their cab so she can have it. If that's the worst thing bullies ever did to put her down, she got off easier than most people. It's a very mysterious remark, because there's certainly nothing "bullying" about Colin in that particular scene -- he approached them more than once in a perfectly calm voice and Mirna acted like he wasn't even there, so...when you refuse to acknowledge that people are speaking to you at all when they do so civilly, they tend to raise their voices. That's kind of to be expected. Anyway, Mirna repeats that "they disgust [her]." I have to say, if I were disgusted as easily as Mirna, I think I would be mentally exhausted.

One other thing -- it's very interesting that Mirna is consumed with the idea of other people being jealous of her, considering that what you just saw was mostly jealousy on her part. She realized she shouldn't have let her taxi go, and it killed her to discover that Colin and Christie -- whom she hates, and believed she was going to screw over but good -- thought to keep theirs, just as she should have, and didn't.

Colin, on the other hand, says that he knew that the cab driver hadn't been paid and still had their bags, so he knew they weren't going to get the cab. "I can't even get over that, really," Christie says as they stand outside the taxi. "That is so rude." Mirna, meanwhile, points at Colin and Christie and says, "These people are maniacs," and then she says it in Arabic, apparently. Honestly, if you can get "maniacs," or anything like "maniacs," out of that scene, you're just nutty. If that's how much snappishness it takes for you to get to "maniacs," you are just plain oversensitive. Particularly if, say, you were the kind of person who would snap at someone, "Bitch! Get out of my way!" But we are getting ahead of ourselves.


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