Ordering taxis to our address-CF or not?

[Mamma23]

There’s someone who lives somewhere (don’t know the person/house and there’s multiple houses it could be!) up the road from us. Their back lane opens out near our front door. The problem is that they keep ordering taxis to our address, and I assume walking down their back lane to get in the taxi. We live at the end of a cul-de-sac, so the taxis park across our cars (blocking us in). The person is also always late for the taxi, problem is, because the person gives our address, we get taxi drivers beeping/knocking on our door to say the taxi is here when we haven’t ordered one, and then we have to deal with the taxi drivers frustrations at being kept waiting. There was one time the taxi was sitting there around 20 mins. The driver knocked on the door, when I answered and told him I hadn’t ordered a taxi (I was in PJ’s and holding by baby, who still had food round his mouth, so he could clearly see I was going nowhere) he took his frustrations out on me and I ended up just shutting the door. I’m aware we don’t own the road outside our house but it’s incredibly frustrating that our address is being given and us having to deal with it. AIBU to think that they’re CF for not giving their own address?

This is like us, DH can not pronounce where we live so always orders a taxi for the next street over. When coming back in a taxi he gives the address for the next street over and then gives left/right directions from that address to ours. Never considered it may be a problem before.

I’m also someone who lives down a lane and NO MATTER how much I tell the companies where I live (postcode, detailed directions including letting them know there is plenty of turning space) they often get it wrong and we end up having to go out looking for our taxi.

Sorry if we’re your annoying neighbour, we’d like the taxi to pick us up from our house too!

I think that fact that you’re there waiting is fine- what annoys me is that the taxi is kept waiting so it’s hanging around outside our address, blocking our cars in and it’s also giving our address a bad name at taxi companies if they’re always left waiting!

Every time go to the taxi and tell them there must be a mix up or even better a prank, and that you don't need a taxi. They'll soon get sick or not having their booked taxi and will choose another address

Wait til they appear and tell them to cut it out

Where their front door is, is actually easier for the taxis to get to too- it’s a new build estate that’s like a maze!

If it’s new new build I wonder if there are issues with maps not showing the address correctly, or at all.

My inlaws bought a new house that tools years to get onto the maps used by the taxi firm (and the police, etc.). Only the post office seemed to know where they actually were. They had to give a different address for taxis and for furniture delivery they sent in there own map so the driver could find them.

In any case, YANBU to be annoyed by it since they are leaving the taxis waiting so long. Agree that going out and finding out which taxi firm so you can call would be a good idea.

It’s hard to explain but the front of their house is on a main road and the back leads to a lane that opens up by our house… so I don’t think that’s the issue as the front of the house is easy to find 😊

Their house (front) is on the main road into the estate, which has been there much longer than our house (our house has been up a year and is now in Google maps) so I don’t think that’s the issue either!

I was just chatting to my next door neighbour about it, apparently the taxi has parked in her space too a couple of times (we have 2 allocated spaces each that are next to each other, in a row of 4 directly outside our houses- she’s single so has one car, so has an empty space, we have a car each so both spaces are filled) so she’d like to put a stop to it too!

@Mamma23 - thank you that’s reassuring!