Doogie, take 1

Somebody Did a Doogie in This Cab?

an original screenplay by
C. L. Randall

C. L. Randall
1830 State Road 19
Marshall, Wisconsin 53559
jack.schnerk@gmail.com

FADE IN:

1 EXT. MADISON, WISCONSIN, EARLY MARCH 1992 - 3:15 PM. 1

A red and white cab pulls up to a small strip mall on Milwaukee st. The cab driver with a slip of paper in his hand jumps out and runs into a small real estate office. He runs out 20 seconds later with a large white envelope in his hand, jumps in the cab, backs up in the parking lot, and pulls out onto the street. The cab exits the scene.


CUT TO:

2 EXT. THE PARKING LOT OF 770 COTTEGE GROVE RD. 2

The view is of the same red and white cab pulling into the south parking lot easement of the YMCA on Claire street.

3 EXT. REAR DOOR OF THE YMCA AS VIEWED FROM THE DRIVERS SEAT OF THE CAB 3

The cab toots the horn, and a dwarf immediately waddles out of the YMCA back door. She comes to the cab and opens the passenger door, front seat. She pulls herself up onto the front seat and sits down next to the window. The cab is a dodge diplomat with bench seats. She settles herself next to the window, and takes a pen from her pocket. She uses the pen as an imaginary cigarette, takes a puff off it, then taps the imaginary ashes off it in mid air.

Narration: The dwarf and the driver have a deal. She normally chants Kumbaya and it drives people up the walls. The deal is, she can sit in the front seat as long as she keeps her mouth shut, and doesn't chant.

CAB DRIVER THOUGHTS (V.O.)

God, she really stinks. They must have had her playing basket ball or something. She really needs a bath bad.

4 EXT. REAR DOOR OF YMCA FROM DRIVERS SEAT OF THE CAB 4

Another passenger silently walks from the door to the cab, the cab driver reaches over the seat and opens the drivers side back door. She comes to that door and gets in. The driver reaches back and pulls the door slamming shut.

5 EXT. THE CAB VIEWED FROM ABOUT 20' IN THE AIR, ABOUT 80' BEHIND IT 5

The cab backs up into a T turn and exits the scene driving under the view of the camera.

6 EXT. THE CAB IS VIEWED FROM THE CENTER OF HIGHWAY PASSING, THE

DRIVERS WINDOW IS LOWERING

7 INT. CAB VIEW OF DWARF FROM EYES OF CAB DRIVER 7

Cab driver

Roll down the window.

Dwarf in high pitched child like voice

I don't want to roll down the window

Cab driver

It stinks in here, roll down the window.

Dwarf

I don't wanna roll down the window, I think I be cold.

Cab driver

Roll the window down or you're going in the back seat.

Dwarf in whiny, punished tone

Why I gotta go in the back seat, I not singin.

Cab driver

Just roll the god damned window down. NOW.

Dwarf with punished look on face reluctantly rolls down window.

8 EXT. VIEW OF CAB PULLING UP TO CURB AT SCHOOL YARD 8

2 black students get in back seat, back seat is now full

Cab pulls away, turns left onto a side street and vanishes

9 INT CAB

Cab driver

Where to?

1st student

810 Badger road.

10 INT CAB

Cab is not in front of a strip mall, a well dressed woman in a white car coat gets in.

The dwarf slides over to sit in the middle of the seat. The woman sits where the

dwarf had been sitting. The cab pulls away.

Cab driver

Where to?

Well dressed woman in elegant white car coat.

I need to go to the dealer to pick up my Lexus, corner of Fish Hatchery and Greenway cross.

11 EXT 810 BADGER ROAD 11

Scene has 2 black students exiting the cab

12 EXT 2010 MAGNOLIA 12

Scene has passenger from back seat who has silently ridden from the YMCA

exiting the cab, walking to door of house, opening door and vanishing into house

13 EXT

14 EXT CAR DEALERSHIP ON CORNER OF FISH HATCHERY AND GREENWAY CROSS PARKING LOT 14

Well dressed woman in elegant white car coat exits cab, camera sees her back.

The white car coat has a slight soil mark on it close to the bottom.

CAB DRIVER THOUGHTS (V.O.)

I'll bet she never takes another Badger cab.

------ Not finished, but I want to take a look at it -----------------------

I'm going to try to write a screen play.

I never knew how to write one, but I found this website where they have them. I'm going to write up Somebody Did a Doogie In This Cab?!?! as a short screen play. I only have to review one more of them and Zoetrope will let me post one. It has to be in PDF format, but I think the PDF reader I got from them will do it, otherwise I think I can produce such a file on my macbook.

For those of you unfamilliar with my alter ego the cab driver, this was for many years, an absolute favorite cab story to tell. It happened close to 20 years ago. I can remember trying to get Lief my neighbor to do it, before I learned how to write. Learned how to write? Ah, well, I was functionally illiterate when I graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and aquiring the skill is something that has only happened in the last couple of years. No, I'm not kidding. I have a degree in Computer Science because it was a program I could get through with only taking 2 courses that required me to write papers, and no courses that required lab's like Chemistry.