Eh. I wound up using Gateway for a trip from downtown STL to Granite City, IL primarily because I happened to see the guy, and my County Cab driver hadn’t showed up. I see these guys(Gateway Taxi) every so often on the roads, but I’ve never hired one before. The driver was cordial and took my credit card without incident. I had paper directions, but he asked for the address to plug into his GPS instead. No biggie, except that his gps took us 3 miles out of the way. Not cool, but I guess I can’t blame him for that. HOWEVER, my driver wound up going the wrong way on the McKinley bridge! WTF! He wound up backing up on the middle of the bridge and swerving into the other lane once I pointed out what he was doing. Dude. What the hell. I hired a cab(rather than taking the bus as per usual) to CALM my nerves(seeing as I was on my way to make the biggest investment of my life thusfar: closing on a property purchase), not give me a heart attack. Shit. The same thing happened AGAIN in Granite City(albeit on a not-so-busy road)! I told him, «you can just pull over here; I’ll walk) since I was just a few blocks away on foot(vs another mile on one-way roads and turn-arounds), and he kept insisting, «no no, we are so close.» I didn’t want to argue. What was another five bucks, I guess, when I was about to hand over a check for close to a grand? All in all, I’m thankful the driver was there when he was in order that I wouldn’t stress about being late to my closing. However, holy shit…
