most expensive cab ride that you and only you paid for

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where did you go and from where? and why??

i guess mine is £30 from Tottenham Court Road back to Ruislip on the night of last year's Trig Brother. my was i drunk.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

£37 back from Higbury & Islington to Putney.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

£55 from Kings Cross to Luton after iron maiden overan and we missed the last train/bus. i was the only job holder of the group...

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

£25 Liverpool city centre to Ormskirk. Which I'm guessing is a bit more of a stretch. Ah, the cheap North.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

So stevem, all these laydeez repping your hair on these boards wouldn't even give up a corner of the bed that night? Pshaw, is all.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like the judge to note that I have never "repped" on Stevem's hair.

Cabs eh? Oh I dunno. The last time ME JUST ME got a cab was in some dreadful bus black hole from Lunding Aquarium back to sunny South Lambeth. It didn't cost very much IIRC. We stopped by the garage and I bought some wotsits and a panda pop.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

£60-70 from the main airport in Iceland to Reykjavik. I miscalculated the exchange rate and thought is was £6-7 (I was VERY jet lagged)

― hmmm, Monday, 2 February 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

west hollywood to long beach airport, about $140 iirc, but i got to expense it back so perhaps it doesn't count. aside from that, i have numerous shocking receipts from london in the 30-50 range from the shepherd's bush era.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

60 quid Esher to Willesden, I should have been worried when my friend said that the venue for her birthday party was "a short taxi ride from Wimbledon" and that short taxi ride took about half an hour.

― chris (chris), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was $50 or $60 or something. I was exhausted and feeling sick as I flew into Midway airport at some ungodly hour of morning. I didn't have change to call the usual cab company I used (also, I was feeling sufficiently nasty that finding an 800 number and working a pay phone seemed like a very complicated undertaking). So I waited at the cab stand and didn't fully understand when the cabbie told me (once I was in the moving cab of course) that it cost double the fare for a suburban destination.

When I realized, I figured that I'd made a reeeeally stupid mistake, but I'd pay by credit card. It turned out he didn't take credit cards. I was 10 dollars or so short and so offered to go upstairs and find other money, but he just waved me off. It was 2 AM, I had no idea how I'd find the money anyway. He was really really mad. Oops.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

£36, Preston to Lancaster after misreading a train timetable quite drastically.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

$60, ronkonkoma to hicksville, after falling asleep on a 3 am train during my 99-00 bout of semi-employment.

― maura (maura), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably back in Orange County... $30 for a ride from the local airport to my house... which is sad given that it was only a 7 minute drive.

Next most expensive: $25 from Sea-Tac airport to my house. Then I discovered this thing called the 194 bus that takes you from the airport to downtown for $2.00.... DUH!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the 'get taxi from JFK' thing better than taking a train because if I am in NYC I can usually get Edgy Style Mag to reimburse that.

On a tube fuckup day I had to catch a flight to NY and to get to Paddington (W2) to get Heathrow Express from EC1 cost £30 at lunchtime. It's usually about £12.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

$35 (incl. tip and lincoln tunnel fare) from midtown to hoboken.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've paid about £25 for central london cab rides on a few occasions. I got a black cab from Heathrow to Stoke Newington where the cab driver took us via green park/buckingham palace and charged us £90 - we only paid him £50 though. Also we took a cab from Hoboken NJ to Brooklyn NY and the cabby charged us $75 (this included a pitstop at dunkin donuts). I think both trips were the cab driver trying to take the tourists for a ride. ha ha.

― marianna, Monday, 2 February 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

how did you manage to avoid paying the extra £40? i bet 'the geezer was screwin'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Did the £90 show on a meter? If not, he was sketchy. Once felt very lazy and cabbed home from work and got the distinct feeling my lairy as fuck black-cab driver was driving a stolen car. "My meter ain't working" once I'd sat down, plus looking like a total crackhead.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

$60 or so for a ride back to my car in a subway stop parking lot in Maryland after staying out too late in DC nightclubs. My friend from Hawaii rode with me but by that point I was the only one with any cash left. Good times.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 2 February 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

$45 from JFK to Brooklyn Heights. Woulda been SFO to Oakland but the guy got lost and had to stop for directions three times.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think about £35 from Russell Square to West Ealing. I gave a £5 tip.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Jel, were you caught behind dustmen for all of this ride?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a mini-cab just after new year, not a black cab.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I know two guys who got a cab from a conference centre in Orlando all the way out to the Kennedy Space Centre to watch a shuttle launch. It cost them $160. At least one of them claims it was totally worth it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

£40, soho to ealing

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the only times i have ever had a public tantrum involved a minicab whose driver not only tried to inflate the fare by 10 quid at the end of our journey but got us stuck going around and around trafalgar square for about 20 minutes. it ended with me screaming, "what are you going to do? report me? this is all illegal!" as the driver debated whether or not to give chase. not my finest hour.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

60 dollars in Washington DC. The hotel I was going to stay in told me they were only a short ride from the airport, so not to bother with buses. But they meant the International Airport, and I was flying in to the other one, which was ages away.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

£37 back from Higbury & Islington to Putney

HOWWWWW much???? i managed H&I to wimbledon in under £30 the other night...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

$60 (including tip), to JFK during Very Bad Traffic.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Easy. I was up on vacation in a remote upper midwest area. My friend & I were in a bar, getting trashed. We decided to not drive home to our cottage, and we had brought sleeping bags and pillows so that we could camp out on the beach.

My friend had 4" platform heels on, and as we were walking to the car to get our sleeping gear, she tripped, fell on a rock, and hit her head, knocking her unconscious. We had to take a 30-mile ambulance ride to the hospital, and get a cab back. $60, which I thought was a lot until I read your stories.

Oh, and my friend peed in the ambulance. What a bad night. Don't wear platform shoes on vacation.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, it wasn't 'only me', but my friend had also forgotten to deposit her paycheck before going on the trip, so I had to pay for everything.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

7000 yen, 3 stop taxi in a roundabout way in and around kichijoji to koenji. it was 4:30am and i hadn't paid a dime all night.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 2 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

mm cant remember only it was well over £200 from ternhill 2 cardiff

― Emma williams (Emma williams), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

$60 from Nasau Coliseum to Brooklyn. (I missed the train.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Around $50, Chelsea to JFK. If I recall almost half of that was just trying to get off the damn island.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Water taxi from one side of Ambergris Caye, Belize to the other. About $50-60. Under the moonlight, lightning on the horizon, just outrunning the rain clouds, our bellies full of wine and ice cream...Those were the days.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

$180. Details completely unknown to me to be perfectly honest. I only know it was $180 cos it was on a company account and I got billed back for it.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

$60 to Melbourne airport from home once, thanks to the damn citylink tolls, the 10% cabcharge fare, and the driver saying "oh the EFTPOS isnt working" and insisting we drive to a damn atm halfway back OUT of the airport, so it all cost $10+ more than normal, but I was too tired and stressed to argue with the asshole.

Plus there was this one time we caught a taxi from Cranbourne or somewhere in shit creek to Pakenham to be able to catch a train after the car broke down. I dunno how much that cost but it was miles so it must have been loads.

I pay $50 to the airport every time I go :/ its almost half what the whole damn plane fare costs me! Ridiculous.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

how did you manage to avoid paying the extra £40? i bet 'the geezer was screwin'

with the £90 ride we told him that we didn't feel that he took the right route and that we had never paid more than £50 for a cab from heathrow before, and we didn't have any more than that to give him anyway. he seemed annoyed but not angry.

the NY cab didn't have a meter running - but we were so tired that it really wasn't worth arguing about.

― marianna, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend AJ got a cab from my house in Twickenham to his house in Dorset bcause he *couldn't be arsed* to get a train to Waterloo and hang around for a train to Poole. £180.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

40 quid heathrow to shepherd's bush (despite the fact i live 10 minutes walk from ravenscourt park tube someone else insisted we get a taxi). oddly the taxi driver wasn't happy because he didn't think that was long enough a journey for him to bother with.

60 dollars from orlando airport to the other orlando airport. sigh.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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