The Taxi

So I had an interesting experience in Angers last night. A few of us went out last night and most places close at 2am. My house mate and I needed to take a cab home since there were no more buses going our way.
I get the cab company on the phone and tell them my whereabouts, the lady asks me "attendez s'il vous plait" "please hold" and I did and she hung up. I thought I must have said something wrong so I hand the phone to my friend who is better at french than I am and he asks for the cab, gives the address, she asks if its for the girl, he says yes, and that its for three people and she said that they would not send a cab for only three people. This seemed very strange to me. So I call back one more time and ask again politely for a cab. As soon as I say the address she hangs up on me.
So, we were stranded. Luckily our friends host family allowed us to stay the night there and my housemate and I call the cab this morning and they send one right away. weird.
So we get into the cab at like 8 this morning and we ask the guy why they refused to send us a cab when we had called three times last night and really needed to get home. Apparently, there have been many incidences of students drunk-dialing cab services when they dont actually need a cab. The driver said they must have heard our accents and assumed we were just drunk french kids and thus they refused us a cab. Still not ok in my opinion. But next time he said just to make sure to say we are American students who really need a ride home and there shouldnt be a problem. I would have called another cab service but alas the town is not that large and there is only one cab company. So, another lesson learned here in Angers.
Luckily the worst case scenario ended up being ok because we were safe and had a safe place to stay. My host mom is going to give the cab company a call today as well because she is of the opinion that they shouldn't refuse anyone a cab over the phone, because even if they have had drunk students call in the past, there are still people (like us) who just really need to get home and cannot walk home like many others.
Needless to say I am now going to take a VERY long nap and get ready for classes to start tomorrow!