to think that these two drunk teenagers

[thegirlwiththemouseyhair]

should have allowed me to get into a taxi before them?
DD (18) phoned me as she was driving home to say she was getting a migraine attack and was seeing flashing lights. She was about 2 miles from home.
I told her to stay where she was and I'd get to her and drive her home.
I went to the main road and waited a while for a cab. Saw one and hailed it when suddenly two girls appeared, tottering unsteadily and screaming 'My cab, my cab".
I said my daughter was unwell and I needed to get to her. they sneered and said 'we've been waiting half an hour'.
I tried to plead to their better natures but clearly they didn't have one and resorted to pulling the age card.
They got in cab.
I wasn't happy

They were drunk, and in all likelihood not thinking about anything but getting home.
Console yourself with the thought of the whacking great fine they no doubt got when they vommed on the back seat

You could have called a cab?

They were drunk, quite possibly feeling unwell themselves, and if they called the cab then I don't see why they should give it up to wait another half an hour for the next one. Sorry. You should have called a cab yourself.

Unless it was an emergency. I don't think I would have given up a cab I'd been waiting half an hour for.

They were drunk. Manners were not at the forefront of their addled minds...

No they hadn't called the cab.
It was a black taxi.
I didn't call one because it's usually easy to hail one.

So presumably you got the next cab and all was well with your daughter?

Yes thank you, I did and it was after a couple of pills and a good night's sleep.
And I think she took pills too

It wasn't an emergency, they'd been waiting half an hour. It would have been a NICE thing for them to do, but you shouldn't have expected it. Sorry.

I would have phoned a cab....stpid girls! There's always an idiot soving in somewhere...I watched two hulking young men take a cab andleave an old lady with a stick on the side of the road!

Sorry, if you hail a black cab off the street then there is no queueing system, you should have ignored them and got in.

It all comes down to who hailed it first really. They probably thought they did, you think you did. Just one of those things...