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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I refuse to use cabs. Sooo many sketchy stories from my 20s in DC. Cab drivers really took advantage of us, especially when we were drunk. I remember they’d switch us into other cabs to go across the border to va. They’d refuse our service if they didn’t like where we were going. They’d refuse credit card, which was a big one for me. Work would only reimburse if I used my work credit card, so I’d get stuck with the full bill due to these scammy cabs. They wouldn’t turn on ac even when it was sweltering so they could save money. I was even abandoned once in the middle of no where. Man I hated dc taxis. [/quote]

+100! So many sketchy DC cab drivers in the early 2000s, who would take advantage of the nebulous “zone system” rather than using meters so they could essentially make up whatever charge they wanted.

I remember one particular incident when my roommate and I got in a cab to head home and the driver claimed it would be ~$15 which was around the typical fare for the distance we were going. He then drove until we were passing through a somewhat sketchy area and then told us that the fare would actually be $60 (making up some ridiculous reason for the fee hike) and that we need to pay up front in cash or he would boot us from the cab right there.

So grateful to Uber for destroying the DC cab mafia![/quote]

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