LUKE: Whoa, calm down.
LORELAI: No I can’t calm down. I need a cab. What’s the number? God, it’s something-cabs, cabs-something-something, 1-800-cabs? Can somebody tell me the damn number of the cab guy?!
Lorelai might be thinking of 1-800-TAXICAB, established in 1999 as a national hotline to connect people to their local taxi companies – there are four in Hartford that Lorelai could have used.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 