taxi update

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

just wanted to say thanks to everyone, i now have green cab saved in my phone as well.

i was picked up exactly on time (i called 45 minutes ahead of time to be safe, but was told by the driver if i didn't need to go to the airport and it wasn't a crazy holiday they could pick me up within about five minutes pretty much whenever, so no reservation necessary.) and yes, it was fine that i'm in arlington, as others pointed out.

it was the first cab in ages that a.) did not make me feel like i was on a rickety amusement park ride and b.) the driver didn't spend any of the ride talking on his cellphone. he made polite conversation and gave me a choice of route, an listened when i gave him directions. he also made sure both when picking up and dropping off i wasn't getting out in traffic, a pile of snow, etc.

anyways, i don't take cabs often so i'm glad this worked out so well, thanks again!

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Green Cab drivers are great, and I don't know why (I mean, I don't know why they're great, they don't really need to be). Once a cab driver picked me up at the corner of my street (it's a private one-way street, so I usually call the cab to the corner and walk out rather than making them back out). So all he knew was the street I was on, not where I lived.

He started to talk about his best friend;s grandma, she used to live on Gilson, his memories of the place, etc....and eventually we compared notes and discovered he had spent a good bit of his adolescence in the late 50s in my apartment!

That's an unusual one, but seriously, every time I get in a Green Cab, I have a good conversation with the driver.