I downloaded and watched Taxi 3 last night. The Hollywood version stole the idea and makes all Taxi movies look bad (except for the VS angels). I found English subtitles but it wasn’t synced with the film. I watched it while I manually scrolled through the subtitles in a text editor.

Bai Ling is also on this film, playing the role of the evil seductress. She’s the one playing the new character that played the tattoo artist on Lost (the girl that speaks Spanish, Russian and Chinese) (the episode where Jack was in Thailand).

I hate watching films with subtitles. This is one of the films that makes me want to learn another language. It’s either Spanish, Portuguese or French. Italian sounds nice too. So far, the only ones I know are English, Filipino, some Mandarin numbers …and PHP.

I remember when I was in high school, I hung out with this big French guy. He was very quiet. Just like me. We just sat on the bench and enjoyed the wind whisper in your ears. It was like meditation with telepathy.

Anyway, let me share this dialogue from Taxi 3 where Daniel goes to the convenience store to check what two lines on a pregnancy test mean. The scene starts with the clerk and Daniel who just walked in the store.

Daniel: Hi!
Store Owner: Hi!
Daniel: Do you have the box that this comes in? (pointing to the pregnancy test thing)
Store Owner: Let’s see. (Daniel hands the thing then the store owner goes to the back of the store) Isn’t it some kind of pregnancy test?
Daniel: Precisely! Can we hurry?
Store Owner: Don’t move. It’s next to the condoms.
Store Owner: (returns from the back) I’m out of stock. We had a rush on them. Women Iike to give a little baby for Christmas.
Daniel: That’s what I’m thinking.
Store Owner: I understand. I’ll ask my daughter. Angele! She helps out. she knows it all by heart. It’s impressive.
Store Owner: (Angele enters from the back) Angele. what’s this? (pointing to the test thing)
Angele: Sorry. I try to be careful but I was drunk.
Store Owner: I told you to help yourself to condoms.
Angele: There were none his size!
Store Owner: Whose?
Angele: I dunno.
Store Owner: You don’t know his name?
Angele: I was drunk. I forgot their names.
Daniel: Merry Christmas! This is serious. (Daniel leaves; end of scene)

It’s not new but it never gets old. In another scene, he puts the thing in his mouth in attempt to hide it from his girlfriend’s father (a general) saying it was a thermometer.

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