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| - I'm torn on this review, honestly it could have been a 5 star. I called from my cellphone at 8:30am while at work (North Shore) and requested a cab come pick me up. The woman was friendly and efficient and took down all my information and thanked me for calling.
Color me impressed. Then I get a call from a pleasant robot letting me know the cab was there at my work and how long I wanted it to wait. I typed in the minutes. When I got downstairs the car was there idling and waiting. I hopped in and the man greeted me by name! He was jovial and friendly and not too chatty, just how I like it.
I needed to go to Oakland's Soldiers and Sailors Hall. He took a picturesque route that wasn't out of the way so as to charge more. The cab was clean and he was a safe driver. We got to Oakland quickly. Now anyone from Pittsburgh knows that Oakland is usually a nightmare on a weekday during college fall term near lunch time. That's not something unusual at all. We get into Oakland and I can feel the driver's growing agitation with the traffic.
Admittedly I don't drive often, I haven't owned a car in years. When driving is your job though, and this is the city you drive in... one would assume he'd be used to it. The agitation was making me a little uncomfortable, but nothing could have prepared me for what happened next. As we pull up next to the line of parked car he puts on his 4-way lights and tells me the fare 10$ and some change, it's about what I had anticipated so I hand him my bank card as the cab didn't have a reader in the back seat. He takes my card and turns around but doesn't swipe it. He just sits there for a second. He then turned around to me and forced my card back at me and literally YELLED, "JUST GET OUT!!" I was a little taken aback, I just sat there not knowing if he was serious. I could only ask, "I'm sorry, excuse me?" The reply, "I SAID GET OUT. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THINGS LIKE THIS. JUST GET OUT OF MY CAB."
I got out. Dumbfounded. I didn't pay for the ride and they were there to get me exactly on time so I suppose it wasn't the worst... I don't appreciate being treated that way at all. The cab's card reader was right there within sight. I've learned to just bring a pair of tennis shoes or use the
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