Why You Gotta Go Screw With Telemundo?
Despite what some people think, we’ve lived here long enough to know when a cabbie is starting to give us the runaround. And now we just nip it in the bud. We call out the Lower Wacker route before they start to pull some other crap. We tell them to take Ashland instead of going all the way east to Lake Shore Drive. But there’s one thing we have never been really strong on — making cab drivers let us use our credit/debit card. We know it’s the law; it says it right on the laminated rules and regulations thing that we can stare at the whole freakin’ ride if we care to. But ever since the time we called for a cab to go to the airport and specifically asked about a credit card and then got to the airport and the guy wouldn’t take it (we still wonder what he would have done if we just stayed the course and said we had no money), we really haven’t been interested in screwing with the whole thing. And, Connie Magaña, a reporter for Telemundo Chicago, had a similar, but much worse, experience
