r/Glasgow Tools

it’s the same with me, i work in the city centre and getting the bus after a saturday backshift is not fun so 9/10 i’ll get a private hire home, specifically putting in the journey notes that i want to pay with card, get to my house and it’s “my card machine doesn’t work” however a driver told me a few months ago that things can go different ways with the drivers refusing to take card (cause they all do have card machines that they have to let you use) this driver told me to ask the driver to phone the base as you have no other means of payment, they’ll either take manual payment over the phone (card details etc) or tell the driver that they need to use their card machine, and somehow it miraculously works after that, look i know it isn’t the way it used to be with taxis where it was all just straight up cash and earnings and a lot of drivers don’t like that but they need to advance and learn that hardly anyone carries cash anymore and card is the most convenient thing in the world, these card machines take a small percentage of whatever the amount is so i always tip that amount so they get the full fare plus whatever change i have in my pocket, again it’s 50/50 as some drivers fully welcome card payment and others have signs in the car that specifically say you can’t pay with card