Sounds truly taxing.

If you had golden drachmas you could always summon the Grey Sisters taxi from Percy Jackson. I hear they have a lightning fast but life endangering service. All good fun.

You should have done it; imagine her face when she goes to pay

Well, when you make a deranged request, what do you expect the reaction to be?

Some woman you've never met and will never speak to again thought you odd? Fyl indeed.

Hi OP here. Basically I work in a houseware and DIY store and the customer was a bit awkward in the first place. As she was leaving she asked if I could ring her a taxi, and I said I could if she had the phone number. She gave me a business card with a number on which I rang but the lady on the other end hadn't heard of where I work so she asked what town I was in. When I told her I was in Leicester she told me she was in Cornwall which is right at the far south west of England. I don't know whether she thought I playing a prank or was some sort of idiot. The customer herself seemed surprised the number was for Cornwall so what she was doing with the business card I don't know. To top it all off after we told her we didn't have a local taxi number she went outside to ring her son. On her mobile phone.

Well at least the customer was also confused that way I didn't make you feel so bad.

"Call me a taxi." "Certainly madam. You are a taxi."

Leicester is pronounced LESTER for people across the Atlantic lol

This happened to me. I was in a hotel and my friend and I asked the manager if he knew of a good taxi company we could use. He gave us a number and went along his way. We called the company and it turned out the number was for a company in Texas, we were in Oregon.