Work Christmas party this past Saturday and we got taxi chits for Checker.
Called them Saturday morning to book a cab for 5:30 to get to party for 6:00 and they weren’t taking reservations between 5:00-7:00pm. Got a friend to drop us off in exchange to drive him to his Christmas party next weekend. On the way down I downloaded the checker cab app (which seemed to be great).
Party ends just before midnight, power up the app and there’s a cab 4-5 blocks away (I can literally see him down the street), sweet deal, so I booked it. Cab continues towards me, I see the cab # matches the one I just booked 30 seconds earlier, I wave it down and he drives by me, pulls a #### hook into a hotel parking lot and picks some other people up then goes speeding away past me. WTF is the point of this app? This all developed within the block I was standing on.
Luckily we loitered around the hotel and got a cab a 5 minutes later but why have people book cabs if they don’t even follow it? Cabbie should of had my confirmation # and name but obviously didn't care. The app is showing a confirmed pickup and delivery.
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