Oh man, in remembering my own taxi nightmares I’d forgotten about this awful thing- how occasionally they would come 5 or 10 minutes early and barely be there for 5 seconds and take off before I could even get out the door.
My personal worst was catching a taxi to the Rochester, NY airport in '95- made reservation the night before, didn’t show, finally got one to come about 45 minutes later, then he made another stop to pick up another passenger, and while I was nervous about time it seemed like I would make it ok, and I thought great, at least I’ll save on splitting the fair. Except when she got in the driver said no fare splitting, we each have to pay full price. In hindsight I have no idea if that was legal, but at that point I just needed to get to the airport and I was essentially his prisoner if I didn’t want to miss my flight. Fucker.
