Melrose Taxi

They don’t take cards which is illegal so when you’re shit out of luck stuck at Oak Grove you have no choice.
They’ll stop at an ATM but they don’t shut off the meter.

Malden Taxi, Melrose taxi — you have the same inhuman dispatcher for both «services», even though the phone numbers are different. If you need to be picked up somewhere and use them, you better rub a lamp and hope they decide to show up.
I had to get to the airport to catch a flight and called Melrose/​Malden Taxi one hour before I wanted to be picked up. (I just needed to be taken to the T from my house), to ensure I’d be picked up on time.
Dispatcher said, «call back fifteen minutes before you want to get picked up.» I called back 25 minutes before I needed to get picked up, because the dispatcher was so sketch. He said he’d have someone out in about 15 minutes or so. I told him I needed to catch a flight. He said, «uh-​huh.»
After 15 – 20 minutes, no one came. I called the dispatcher back. He said, «um, yeah… maybe 10 or so more minutes.» I told him I needed to be picked up, I had to catch a flight. He said «yeah, well, we are really busy.» (At NOON on a Wednesday?”)
If they were so busy, why couldnt he have gotten a cab sent out if I had asked for it an hour in advance? Because he had no intention of sending a cab out in the first place, or one of the drivers didnt give two shits, or both.
After 10 more minutes, I was so stressed that I was going to miss my flight. I called again and was practically in tears. It was a different dispatcher and he actually sounded like he would do something. He said that the cab was almost to my house. 10 more minutes later, the cab finally showed up.
I just made my flight, but barely. I HATE this cab company — I wont ever use them or depend on them for anything.