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A play: with full conversational transcripts (ongoing)

conflict with 2 people, one uncomfortable with the other.
one grab driver only grabs food for himself. guess who. Grab pays him to get his own food.


SCENE DIALOGUE
(motorcycle sounds, at the traffic light)

hi where youre going?
...
oi brada i ask you where you going
...
long traffic light huh
...
Pulai tiga.

oh, I'm going Merahmati. Where you live? Not my first time seeing you already, kan

(motorcycle sounds)...Pulai tiga. 

Huh?

I LIVE IN PULAI TIGA

Huh. I have another dispatch going there just now. But after this one. (Stares)

how long have you worked? you seem very sure of the area 

Haha I just started. The economy very demanding now! (Smiles) kan? 

sure. I did this for a year now, but i still cannot learn the roads 

i was forced into this haha.

(Smiles) Hahaaa right, you said you live at Pulau Tiga?

Pulai tiga. 

Ah i see. 

...

Rich area.

You think so?

What you talking? i don't think, I know. What happened?

so?

What happened? (Smiles) You ok ah bro?

yes. Long traffic light. I'm already late. (checks watch)

Eiii ROLEX ah. I also got! hahahahahaha (CRESCENDO)

Hahahaa (LOUDER) (eyes widen, and then relaxes)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. (car beside them honks)

ha-  We can all dream. 

You late? ye same. is hard to get enough to feed a family with just grab now you know? Also very dangerous but not much choice now.
...

My children is going to study IMU, and they are my responsibility right, you know?... You married?

Haha no uncle. I still studying.  

OH. i used to study in University too, you know. UM. Very good university. But then i join event organising firm. Until now.

Oof

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.ENDING:

..the light turns green. 

(The student goes home, takes off his grab garb, and eats the food. 
his phone pings with all new orders, but he mutes and ignores them.)



alternative: 2 grabfood uncles self depreciate themselves while stuck at a traffic light



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