Hannibal Buress was in Toronto for the NBA All-Star Game last weekend, where it was hellishly cold as the entire northeast had been blasted with a cold snap. So, even though he was staying only a few blocks from the arena, Buress explained to Seth Meyers on Wednesday night that he and his cousin grabbed a cab to get to Sunday’s game. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a mistake as the cab driver tried to pull that flat rate horse crap, trying to charge them 20 bucks to take them a few blocks.
The driver eventually relented and condescendingly offered to take them for free, which was when Buress was reminded that Uber is a very sensitive subject to cabbies, by telling him, “That’s why Uber is crushing you guys.”
For the record, he’s not wrong. I can’t count the times I’ve been scammed or attempted to be scammed by cab drivers claiming flat rates, the credit card machine is down, or the meter is broken. Then Uber and Lyft came along and it’s like being magically transported to your destination on a marshmallow cloud, in comparison. With a complimentary bottle of water, bitches.
So yeah, you can see why cab drivers would literally prefer to have you talk about banging their daughters over taking about Uber.
