So I walk out and my Mom's like texting me like "Don't talk to anyone, go directly to the right side and talk to the taxi union. There's a taxi union, you can't avoid it, they're all one taxi company. Just talk to the taxi company." So I explain to the guy what's going on, with the border or whatever and why I'm flustered, and he's like "Oh I lived in Idaho, sorry about that, it's not like that all the time." And he's like "Where are you going?" so I tell him the resort I'm going to, my Mom's like "get a private car". So the first guy says "This is going to be $55," and I'm like "fine, I know that that's bullshit, but fuck it, I don't have any other option at this point, who gives a shit?".
So the guy says, don't talk to anyone else, go to the window and tell the first guy it's $55. I walk into the room where there's a taxi guy, and I'm like "the guy in there said it was $55" and he's like "no it's $70" and I'm like "what do you mean, it's $70? The guy inside said it's $55". He got so mad at me - "Are you trying to say that I'm corrupt?" - and I was like "I was just telling you what the guy inside told me, what do you mean? We don't have to have this discourse". So the guy's like "You know what, fuck you, then you're stranded." And I'm like "Oh my God, I don't know how to get out of this fucking airport, what am I going to do, walk?" I'm actually seriously screwed if I don't get into a goddamn taxi. At this point, I'm losing my mind. Once again chat, who gives a fuck? $70 is way more significant to big homie than it is to me, right, so it's fine, it's not necessarily the price of it, it's like 100% the principle.
Chat: "Not everyone can afford to be scammed"
Yeah, I know that man. I know, I know, I know that. Please, like I'm not talking about that anyway. I'm just describing my own personal situation. It's not that big of a deal to fucking - my own personal situation, from where I'm standing, is just like I'm getting fucked. It's just frustrating to get fucked. I was fine paying the upmarked price of $55 already, because that one is the fuck you price already. But then to mark that from $55 to $70, well then, ok, what's happening here? What's going on? By the time I get to the cab is it going to be like $200?
Chat: "It sucks but we're used to it, that's why chat's acting like it's normal, happens to locals too lol, anyways iktf"
[blank stare] So basically I fucking turn around and got into an argument with the second guy at this point. So this is the third guy I'm in an argument with, two customs/border control people and now I'm fighting a cab guy - I've been on Mexican soil for like 20 minutes and I've already gotten ass fucked three times. This sucks. And I didn't even want to go! I didn't want to be here! I didn't want to leave my fucking house. I don't want to go to Mexico. I'm here specifically for my Mom, because she wants to go in the water, go somewhere nice, go in the water, I was like "Sure, let's do it, whatever, pick a place" and it's like at least not super far, right, she got her dissertation done, it was a multiple year long process, so I was like "fine, let's go. I don't want to go, I'm going to bring my stuff, I'm going to try and stream from there" and like the worst part is you can't even go in the water right now because it's raining like a motherfucker.
Chat: "Don't you have water in California?"
No, they wanted to go somewhere, they wanted to leave.
[knocking]
What is happening? Someone's knocking on my door. Can't compose my mind.
Chat: "I'm Mexican American, even when I go to Mexico I never talk, I let my cousins talk - my Spanish is terrible and they can always tell if you're a foreigner, it's incredibly annoying"
I thought like they didn't fuck foreigners over like tourism is important yknow? So anyway I'm getting fucked over by the taxi guy too, and finally I show him "I'm really sorry, I don't mean to say you're a crook, I'm not saying you're a bad guy or a crook, I'm just pissed off because of this" and I show him the tax and he's like "oh I get it. You know not everyone is a crook like that though. Not everyone's a criminal like those guys. Those guys are the bad guys". In my mind I'm thinking "motherfucker, you're doing it to me right now, don't act like you're on my side" but I had to suck it up because like I have nothing else, I can't do anything, I don't want to be stranded in the fucking airport, so I paid him and apologised to him even though he was like fucking me very openly.