I know Sandler plays an idiot in a good bit of his movies. But if you wanted to get to a place in a time crunch situation then an intelligent person would take the fastest transportation over the smallest. If they took a cab, then the pissing on the wall skit wouldn't have been used.
"Sailors fighting in the dance hall."
He works one day a week, he probably didn't have the money.
"Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?" -The Wizard of Oz (1939)
He was making money on the stock market, he says so early in the film and he got $200,000 from a lawsuit. You think he can't afford a cab but can afford 2 matching suits from Barney's?
Dragonzord! Mastodon! Pterodactyl! Triceratops! Saber Toothed Tiger! Tyrannosaurus!
$200,000 won't last that long if you keep blowing it on stupid things like cab rides, plus his rent was EASILY over a grand a month. Even if he spent his money on nothing but rent, he would only be able to afford that apartment for around 15 years.
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