annoying cab driver award...

When you knew she was heading the wrong way, why the heck didn't you just stop her immediately, tell her to about face and head the right way ?! Oh, and give her detailed instructions in case she plays "dumb broad" again. This was 80 % your own fault for taking her crap. You are the customer and you're always right unless you abuse your position (like puking in her cab or exposing yourself or something). Surely, if you have a specific way in mind to get where you're going, she's required to follow it !

 

Personally, if I were as worried as you sound about the possibility of her driving recklessly and killing you, I'd have paid up and bugged out of the cab (as long as it wasn't in a bad part of town).

If I wasn't so worried about her temp insanity, I would've insisted on her following my directions, cutting off any stupid ranting by her. You have her cab company and ID details there in front of you, it doesn't take a lot to lodge a complaint, or at least to threaten to. She HAS to listen to you.

By doing nothing, you just let her cheat you of a little money. It's not much, surely, but isn't it the principle of the thing ? Maybe this is a racket the b!tch likes to pull off every now and then with guys they think will fold when she plays her "wronged wench" card.

Oh, well, it's just one bad experience, no skin off your nose, live and learn and all that.

 

TurbO,
he's saying it's not about all those things. He's saying that she just took his simple, innocent query and used it to launch into a tirade. Which is very annoying.

I once ordered takeout food and this guy gives me a dish with gravy in a paper carton. I wanted a plastic bag to wrap it in because the cartons leak after my cornering tosses them around. Instead of just giving me the plastic bag sitting in plain sight, the guy had this huge long argument with me about how the paper carton was perfectly adequate. WTF?!! I just want a plastic bag. Give me one. 2 seconds. I don't need a discussion. I don't need a ****ing lesson in the virtues of his paper carton. Just give me the ****ing plastic bag and I can be on my way and he can go back to running his take-away empire.

From Team America: Jesus Titty Focking Christ!!!!

Interesting perspective on the "wronged wench card"...I like that!

 

But think, if she does that to get 5 dollars extra out of every customer, and she does... erm... 50 passengers a day, that's 250 bucks. If she works 300+ days out of the year, that amounts to the thousands. Just wrong on her part, she should be slapped for every extra dollar she's made.

If she made only 1 extra dollar for each passenger, it still amounts to 15 thousand dollars a year. Sheesh!

 

I flew in late one night to Newark, NJ airport. The lines for cabs were horrendous so I called a towncar. The driver shows up in a block long white stretch limo (which I hate) saying that was the only car available. Exhausted I tell him my street and town then veg out a little after a bad flight and trip. A few minutes later I realize we are in some horrible part of Newark after midnight with drug dealers and hookers all over the place. Of course they are now swarming my white stretch limo thinking I am either a customer or someone very, very lost. Faces are pressed up against the window saying "take me for a ride!", "whaatcha doin in this neighborhood, white boy". Now I am flipping out. Seems the name of my street is also the name of a very undesirable street in Newark. Never mind that the driver ignored the fact it was in a different TOWN! After we escaped with our lives, I called his boss who told me that was the sixth complaint he got about that driver and he was finished!

 

When I went to Chicago a few months ago I wanted to deal a particular cab company that gave me a good rate and had nicer cars. Of course they couldn't get anyone there quickly and I was in a rush. I found another cab and had to talk him into a flat rate. While in the car talking I realized the car had no a/c and had a very interesting smell to it. The rate was high so I went to see if there was a limo service with regular cars; they were all on jobs. So back to the ghetto cab I went. I'm really glad I got the flat rate. Once we got into the suburbs the guy kept getting lost and at one point he took the wrong exit onto another interstate or something. After a 20 minute long circle we finally got onto the right interstate. I could have waited for the good cab company to get there for the better rate and still gotten there quicker.

 

my 2 second story

once in vegas the doorman said we can get you a limo to the other casino so we jumped right in, then as the ride was going, we looked and there was a full bar, and one of the people i was with said is this booze for us. which she replied it was for the riding guests, so my friend said, well, we will just drink it all, the lady driver fliped, she slammed on her brakes pulled over and said get out, i got out, one of my friends was trying to work it out by asking what was wrong, cause it was a joke, we cannot drink 6 bottles in 1 mile, so she gets one of those taser, stun guns and starts zapping away, he gets out she takes off. less than a minute later we were surrounded by 5 cop cars guns drawn, the whole ordeal, five minutes later the head cop comes up and says she doesnt want to press charges, we were like charges for what, she freaked out from a joke. so they said walk away, so we had to walk to the mile to the next casino in the freezing pouring rain. we laugh about it now.

john

 

What the...


Me and limo lady would have had some words.

 

Just stop eating the desi curry my man

 

As a frequent rider in Chicago cabs, I'd have to say you DID get the good cab company! I've got too many stories to write here. The most recent annoys me the most, however. On Thanksgiving night we parked on the street in front of our house around 9pm. The following day I noticed a long scuffed and scratched streak running from wheel to wheel. On the ground was a lot of broken pieces of blinker, and the color of the scuff was tell-tale Taxi Cab Yellow. Upon further investigation, the blinker pieces are a perfect match to a Ford Crown Victoria, the car used by cabbies. As a kicker, a neighbor of ours said she went to the 7-11 around the corner that night and there was a drunk cab driver in there--his car a yellow one. So, with all my circumstantial evidence, there's really nothing I can do other than bend over and grab my ankles.

 

Sorry to hear that, it makes it worse when you don't have any idea who did it so you have no recourse.

My cab driver drove pretty bad there were a few times where I thought we were going to have a wreck. I thought it was funny when he was on the phone he was speaking in his native tongue but when we passed a cop car doing 80 he started cursing in English. It reminded me of that Curb Your Enthusiasm episode when they were wondering why the chef didn't curse in his own language.

 

Those are pretty funny (and sad) stories about riding in hired cars. Born and raised in Dallas, everyone has a car, so I had never stepped foot into a taxi until I was like 22 years old and in Cairo Egypt. The people there are wonderful but they all drive like escaped mental patients running from their demons. Luckily, my local hosts warned me of all the pitfalls and gave me explicit directions on how the cabs were supposed to get where I was going.

I ended up having no difficulties and during my stay, found a "regular" cabbie who drove me a few times. Every taxi driver in Cairo offered me a cigarette. I thought it was kooky when the first guy did it, but then they all did it and I realized it was just a custom. A value-added service as it were.

 

Yeah, our taxi syndicate is a little on the scummy side. I'm sure he had that thing in a garage the next day covering the evidence.

 

LOL

Female cab driver?

I should start hanging around you Ash; then I'd be able to experience some of your exploits first hand!