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NYC couple hail cab to move 2,400 miles

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NEW YORK - Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don't drive, and they don't want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.
Their solution: "Hey, cabbie."
They met taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz when they hailed his cab after a shopping trip several weeks ago.
They got to talking about their upcoming move, and "we said 'Do you want to come?'" said Bob Matas, 72, a former audio and video engineer for advertising agencies. "And he said 'Sure.'"
It was initially a gag, Matas said, but as they talked over the ensuing weeks it became reality.
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I once hailed a cab at LaGuardia for a trip into Manhattan. The cabbie was quite the conversationalist, and offered to be my personal chauffeur for a full five-day trip, so that I would not rent a car after I was in the city or fly back to Ohio at the end of the week.

He was willing to drive me into the city for Monday & Tuesday, then out to Long Island for Wednesday & Thursday, and finally back to Ohio, for full fare, of course. It was very funny, though it took me about five minutes before I realized this guy was seriously trying to sell me on this.

:slappy:

After that experience, I stopped hailing cabs and stored a number for a Limo/Town Car service on my cell.
 
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Dryden;807409; said:
I once hailed a cab at LaGuardia for a trip into Manhattan. The cabbie was quite the conversationalist, and offered to be my personal chauffeur for a full five-day trip, so that I would not rent a car after I was in the city or fly back to Ohio at the end of the week.

He was willing to drive me into the city for Monday & Tuesday, then out to Long Island for Wednesday & Thursday, and finally back to Ohio, for full fare, of course. It was very funny, though it took me about five minutes before I realized this guy was seriously trying to sell me on this.

:slappy:

After that experience, I stopped hailing cabs and stored a number for a Limo/Town Car service on my cell.
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Was that a yellow cab?
 
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kinch;807761; said:
What's wrong with taxi drivers? Or rather, what makes them parasites?
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you live here, haven't you ever had a cabby try to screw you? i can't tell you how many times they take the one avenue that they know has the worst traffic, or when you are wasted late at night they think you won't notice if they take the long way. in chicago, where they are supposed to accept credit cards, they always lie and tell you that their credit card machine is broken so they don't have to wait a month for their tip. cabbys suck IMO, i don't trust any of them.
 
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fourteenandoh;807776; said:
you live here, haven't you ever had a cabby try to screw you? i can't tell you how many times they take the one avenue that they know has the worst traffic, or when you are wasted late at night they think you won't notice if they take the long way. in chicago, where they are supposed to accept credit cards, they always lie and tell you that their credit card machine is broken so they don't have to wait a month for their tip. cabbys suck IMO, i don't trust any of them.
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I guess I've just had good luck. Also, from places like the airport, I suppose I always do tell them what way to go. . . (I live off the Williamsburg, so it is a big difference. . .)

I take taxis daily, too. The only common thing I have noticed is they seem to fear the FDR. . .

(Thinking about it, it also depends on where you are going. I am always going to, or returning from, a busy cab area, so their best bet money wise is to start a new fare with the initial "hit" as quickly as possible, and rack the same fare on the way with the miles and not the time. . .)
 
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fourteenandoh;807807; said:
from the airport is a fixed rate isn't it? they already have the rates calculated to all the different areas of the city.
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Not from LaGuardia. From JFK it is; it used to be $35 to anywhere in Manhattan but I believe it may have gone up. . . I am not sure about Newark as I usually take the train to Penn Station then cab from there.

edit: Oh yeah, Dryden: the reason I asked if your cab that time was a yellow cab is because the experience you described sounds a lot like how people act in the Gypsy cabs ("Roma" cabs? I unfortunately don't know a P.C. term for them). They are the guys that are bored livery drivers and/or scammers and ask if you need a ride when you exit the airport. . . They are fine, btw, as long as you set the fare before the ride, tell them it includes tip, and don't close your car door until you have the luggage out of the trunk. . . :biggrin: If you waited in a line then you got a yellow cab (or if the cab was yellow :) ).
 
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