The last, and I do mean the last few times I've taken Yellow Cab I've had the strangest experiences. From a driver demanding a tip to this last guy that was hoping some long con he was playing would pay off. I don't think it worked out the way he'd hoped.
The first thing I noticed when I got into the cab was that he not turn the meter on. It wasn't until we were about 5 minutes away when I told him where I was going - which he had no idea of apparently- that he said, "Oh, I didn't turn the meter on because I usually have (mutter but something that sounded like, "MMA customers.") While he was driving, still not turning on the meter, he's talking my ear off about restaurants and asking me about the last terrible trip I had- as if trying to distract me. He got angry at one point I could not remember if the last drive was wearing a hat, lol
When we finally arrived at my destination I mentioned that I had arranged for a round trip, which I'd also mentioned to him previously. He seemed dumbfouned and said that the trip we'd just taken- leg one so to speak- was going to be $40. Forty dollars for a 7 minute ride of 1.6 miles. . He did not say, "Well the whole trip will be $40 if I wait for you," which would have been reasonable. In retrospect, he could have meant that I had planned on $50.00. He seemed pretty illiterate for a guy playing such a long con. It really wasn't even very long. It was more like wanker size.
So he tried his bestest to use Google to get it to tell him what the fare should be in a racking up the bucks while we sat in the parking lot of a funeral. . When he couldn't figure that out, he called his dispatcher and said, "I took (my name) to her destination but now she is saying she has no money." Lol. Believe me, the account I was planning on paying him from has more than he made on his last 10 long cons. He's saying stuff like that and other rude stuff to the dispatcher about me. Oh, by the way, his name is Mark, he's a big hairy dude in a cab that looks like it might be cleaned by monkeys every once in a while. read more