[p4wnc6]

I did not claim that you said it, not at all, and that's a definite misrepresentation of what I'm talking about.

The comment in which it was said is here: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191938 >.

I am comparing whatever anecdotes (yours and others) that are supposedly backed up by lots of people you know, with this.

While the people you know might have had some bad experiences sometimes, I wouldn't believe they were anywhere near the claims going on in this thread.

If your connections reported occasional bad experiences with taxis, who would care? It couldn't possibly be relevant to a thread where the entire context of the thread is that people are saying that all Boston taxis are almost always awful and almost always have broken card readers, etc.

I'm not sure how to explain it. I'm trying to say that the connections whose informal opinions you cite as backup couldn't possibly have said something as extreme as what the other people of this thread are saying -- in which case whatever minor and totally expected occasional complaints your sources have had, they aren't relevant.