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what hack or combiniation of hacks is giving me this and do you think it is harmful?  It's mildly annoying, so I'd like to fix it if I can.  TIA!

It's standard. There's some obscure minor difference between the two that no one ever remembers. But it's not a hack, it's Maxian.

The "Transportation" menu lets you invite someone to a community lot with you, and the "Call Taxi" is the same way just quicker.

Thanks to you both.  I thought for sure it was something I'd installed, since it didn't really make any sense.  Guess I'll quit trying to fix it now...

It still doesn't make any sense - why did Maxis do that anyways?

There is some sense in it:
When you call transportation, you get the option "invite sim", and then 3 sub-actions are performed: the sim call somebody, get a message that he is not available (if positive), and call the taxi company back to arrange the drive.
When you call taxi, no sub-actions are performed.

It's like the programmer wrote: if A then Routine a, if B then Routine b, and threw it to the "trash"...:).

doesn't one of them let you choose where you are going without exiting to the neighbourhood screen first?
that speeds things up no end.... if you can remember which one it is.....

Transportation allows the caller to choose which members of the family will go with him, if my memory is not blured by too much drinking.

Unless my memory is also blurred by whatever I was drinking - I used the taxi option to visit an owned business last night and went directly there without loading the 'hood screen first.  I got to choose which sims went, but only from the household.  If you want to invite other sims, do it from the owned business.  In fact send 1 sim to the shop, then have them phone and invite the others, that way the other family members arrive fresh, don't return home wiped out and the kids can be home alone without anyone noticing!

Clever trick!  I'll have to remember that one...