I had a terrible experience with a yellow cab driver awhile back, and just had another crazy yellow cabbie last weekend with a good friend of mine! We were out with some friends downtown and my friend had a bit too much to drink, so we called a cab to be safe. The plan was to take him home, then ride the cab back to my car. Sounds easy enough huh? I could have put him in the cab alone, but he was pretty drunk and I really just wanted to watch out for him. So here we are almost halfway home my friend told me he felt sick, so I asked the yellow cab driver to pull over. There was nobody on the road, it wasn’t a freeway or anything dangerous, and it was late…so what’s the harm?
Still the cab driver didn’t pull over, how crazy is that? He said he didn’t have time to stop and that we were almost there. Well we were more than ten miles from his place, so I asked him again to please pull over and my friend was feeling sick but he wouldn’t! Can you guess what happened next haha? My friend threw up in the back seat of the yellow cab, guess who pulled over now…yeah the cab driver pulled over, and all it took was my friend doing exactly what I was telling him was going to happen. He told us to get out, and demanded 100 dollars for the damage to the cab. I didn’t have that much cash so he ran my card for the $100, then threw another $100 on it for the fare. THEN HE LEFT US BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD! I had to call a friend downtown and he had to come get us at 1am by the side of the road. Are you kidding me?
Then I found this story online of another fun yellow cab experience…
I went to a baseball game, at a ballpark a half hour drive or so from my school. I missed the last bus, so I had to call a cab. No worries. My parents had put fifty bucks on a prepaid Yellow Cab card. I called both that city and mine to make sure it’d be accepted. They all said yeah. Then the cab driver called his dispatch and they said yeah. So we get to my school and he calls again and they say no, those cards aren’t accepted for that city’s cabs! I don’t have the fifty six dollars in cash (that’s how much it cost, and that’s only because he left the meter running while he called the second time). I call the company and they say they can refund me, but I’ll have to call Monday. I tell the driver the situation ask if I can send a money order, and he gives me his address and agrees to the money order.
Friday comes and he calls me THREE TIMES while I’m in class, and leaves TWO VOICEMAILS. I call him back, and tell him that the cab company has to call me back, and I’ll get back to him. He calls me again, I answer. And then a FIFTH time. I answer. Monday comes, and when I get out of class, there are TWO missed calls and a voicemail from him. I call Yellow Cab and they tell me they cut checks on Fridays, so they’ll drop my check in the mail then. Before I can call the driver and tell him this, he calls me a THIRD time, and I tell him the situation. He tells me that he needs the money sooner, because he has to pay his lease for his cab then. I tell him I’m going to see what I can do, and that I’ll call him back as soon as possible. I call my mom as soon as I hang up with him, and within two minutes of our conversation, he calls me a FOURTH and FIFTH time, and then a SIXTH, SEVENTH and EIGHTH time, and leaves a voicemail. He comes down to my school and calls the police, but I’ve already gone to the security office. The police say I’m in no trouble, because of the miscommunication with the prepaid card. I get the money, give it to the police and they give it to this disgusting excuse for a human being driver.
So needless to say, if you got tons of cash, and you are a robot who never has any real life situations, then by all means go yellow cab. However, if you want somebody that understands corporate policy, who understands english, and can recite the rules, stay away from this cab company. You might as well be in a 3rd world country!
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