“Nightshift Workers for Sure”: Woman Captured Sleeping Passengers in a Taxi, SA Speculates
- A hun shared a clip of a taxi ride where almost every passenger was too tired to keep their eyes opened
- The babe posted the cute video on her TikTok account, leaving Mzansi online community members talking
- Many shared their thoughts, trying to come up with possible explanations as to why everyone would be sleeping except for the driver and the lady
- Briefly News spoke with Nduna, a short-distance taxi driver on transporting passengers
Source: TikTok
It is the end of the year, and our bodies are starting to show signs of strain from working nonstop for months and getting ready for the festive season's mini break.
A babe was travelling in a taxi full of exhausted old and young people, and she captured them in a video, which she later shared under her TikTok user handle @yamagqibelo9.
A taxi ride like no other
The TikTok user sits in a chair facing the other commuters behind the taxi driver in the video. She can see everyone, so she records passengers as they sleep at different angles.
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Taxi driver speaks about transporting people
We at Briefly News spoke with a taxi driver known by many as Nduna, who shared his experience working with people daily, from mornings to evenings.
"Passengers wake up early to get to their places of employment and on many occasions sleep on the way to work or when coming back from work, more so when the driver is smooth,.and making them comfortable."
"As drivers, we have to be extra careful and not fall asleep with them because it is easy to join in. That means resting properly, which can be challenging, seeing how early we have to wake up and how late we finish."
Nduna shares how they survive in the taxi industry, seeing that they get minimal rest.
"We live on lots of coffee and energy drinks to survive our busy industry. There are off days, but because of how hectic our lives are when working, our rest days are busy doing personal things."
Mzansi's amused by the sleeping commuters
The lady's post gained massive popularity on the video streaming platform, reaching over 160K views and almost 300K comments, as social media users tried to guess what could have made people fall asleep.
User @G gangster shared:
"Nightshift workers, for sure."
User @AbongileNelithaNgc said:
"Definitely ukhona ophethe iyeza (someone has muti)."
User @QueenZeeTau teased:
"Shuthi udriver ukhulelwe (that means the driver is pregnant)."
User @Noli joked:
"😂😂😂ngathi it’s that taxi ka wrong turn. I wonder what was happening, it so sad though."
User @omphilekmaake felt amused:
"Imagine they wake up in the middle of Mexico.. 🤣 one thing for sure they’ll start sleeping with one eye open."
User @Bongani Makhanya123 said:
"🤣🤔 taxi from night shift. I don't sleep in a taxi. But, yoh, working the night shift will humble you. You'll wake up at the taxi rank. driver telling u to get off. 😏
Taxi drivers mock a man in Gucci drip at the rank
In another Briefly News article, taxi drivers mocked a man who was seen at a taxi rank rocking Gucci drip from head to toe.
The taxi drivers shouted, asking where the man's Mercedes Benz was and if he could afford such luxury clothes, and Mzansi was unimpressed.
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Source: Briefly News
