Robb - what an ordeal, sorry that you had to go through it. My parents got a bad driver last year; he took them to the wrong 11th & 4th (despite them telling him multiple times he was going the wrong way and to the wrong intersection). When they finally got to my apartment, they didn't give him a tip and he got furious and started to get out of the cab. My parents know how to deal with people, so they put him back in his place and called the Taxi and Limosine Commission on him who were really responsive and helpful. They even offered to get him a refund for the cab ride.

If anyone ever gets a cab driver like this, just get his medallion number and report him.

I got a jerk in Vegas a couple weeks ago who was smoking up a storm in the cab, then got pissed when I only gave him a 90 cent tip. I don't mind smoke, unless it's 115 degrees and sunny and you can't breathe. Anyway, I'm sorry I didn't ask him for the money back so that I could "recount" it, at which point I would have walked right into my hotel and let him eat the fare. I'd probably pay if the cops came and told me to; but he'd have wasted an hour of his shift trying to collect.

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