The city has just 39 licensed cab drivers.

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    100%

    American cabs fucked passengers. Gig companies fucked drivers.

    I recently said “fuck it, I’ll take a cab from the airport cab pool.” It was like immediately time traveling to a differently shitty moment in history. The cab smelled like it was made out of Newport filters and ass, and when we got to my home, the guy refused to take a credit or debit card.

    Dude was picking up people from the international terminal, where they were often landing without local currency, then he would tack on a trip to the bank, with the meter running.

    He had Master and Visa card stickers on his car.

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      That’s when you refuse to pay, not your fault their card reader is “broke” and they didn’t inform you when you got in. They can get fucked, they tried pulling this shit on me before. I straight refused to pay cash.

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        Yeah, that’s what I did. I said, you can take me to the bank for free, or I can not pay you.

        After arguing with me he then relented and one of these magically appeared.

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          Man I have not seen one of those credit card carbon copy machines in a long time! It’s funny current credit cards will not work on them since they don’t have any raised numbers

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            Haha yeah. My CC doesn’t even have numbers on the card. They’re in an app so they can be quickly swapped out if the card is compromised.

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      Yeah, fuck taxis to hell and back. I know Uber and Lyft suck for the drivers but I try to help out by being polite and leaving a good tip.