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Uber intersting, the Lyft I had…
Before I get into my story, I guess I should preface it with the fact that I’m no longer at my old job. Last week was my last week there, and I worked my last shift on Saturday. So ya. For now I’m going to be driving Uber / Lyft full time until I decide to either go back to school or I find something else more “careerish”. So, that being said and out of the way. ON TO THE STORY!
So today I started driving for Uber and Lyft. I started this afternoon for about 4 hours and then came home for dinner and then hit the road again around 10pm till about 3:30am. Man. The amount of craziness tonight was astounding. I love it! I feel like it’s almost the perfect job for me because I just love talking to people. The whole sitting in the car for extending periods of time makes my restless legs… well restless. Also, I drank way too much liquids in the last 24 hours, because I kept having to stop like every 2 hours lol.
So the first great story was the mid 30’s mom I picked up from Billy’s. She was quite inebriated of course, but I had a feeling it was going to be interesting. She then started to tell me about how a year ago she had gotten a DUI because she got into a fight with her husband and went to the bar to drink. She then told me she left the bar to meet up with a dude to cheat on her husband with. Who, by the way, had just paid to have her get a boob job. I’m of course cutting a lot of details out because she put the wrong address into the app so we had to go across town. I then got to hear the story of how there’s a line or two waiting for her when she gets to her friends house.
The next story is of the couple that I picked up on the NE side of town heading to one of the bars downtown. When I pulled up, they were outside waiting so at first I was super pumped. Then I took a good look at them and realized the hipsterness that was about to enter my Jean Grey (that’s the name of my Jeep.) They were super friendly the entire ride, but about 3 minutes into talking with me they must’ve figure out that despite the beard, nose ring, and fauxhawk, that I’m not much more of a hipster. So then I got to listen to them talk to each other about how fantastic something was — I think pottery?, and how amazing that the speckles are able to show up when you work with it. They continued to talk about how everybody’s doing this now and it’s all over Etsy and on and on. My brain was numb by the time I dropped them off lolol.
Next was the 4 girls I picked up from Eastown and took 4 blocks to their house. They left me with a flower. And all the dirt that used to be attached to the flower. Definitely won the award for loudest riders of the evening. Super nice, just really loud.
Finally in the category of craziness was the two girls I picked up from East GR. They were apparently from Indiana and drove 3 hours to hang out with some boys. They were leaving because one of them got bit by the dog at the house they were going to stay at. They were going to have to stay in a room that apparently some other random chick was sleeping in — with “friends” aka a bunch of spiders. Honestly it sounded like a disaster so it was probably best they left.
I also had several other riders that were pretty interesting in general because of the conversation. I picked up one guy who was a Software Engineer for Spectrum Health. We had some interesting nerd chat about that. My first rider of the evening was actually one of my former co-workers. It was great to see her and catch up (so if you’re reading this, HI SAM!). I didn’t realize she lived like around the corner from me so that was interesting.
Anyways, since I’m not working 70-80 hours a week anymore, I’m gonna try to post more often. Maybe recap my rides every night or so, if I have funny stories to talk about.
TTFN!
As I sit here and type this I look outside and it’s so rainy outside it almost reminds me of spring. However, it’s not spring, and we’re about to go into winter. Which reminds me that I hate winter. Not so much because I hate snow, but because I hate how people drive here like they’ve never seen snow before. There seems to be no middle ground ever when it comes to winter drivers around here. But also, i hate the snow. That being said, in my opinion, there’s three basic categories of winter drivers in Michigan.
I alluded to the fact that I was thinking about making a “political” blog post on Facebook a couple of days ago. There’s so much on my mind these days as I get more and more into politics as I get older. The problem is, I worry that my views will piss people off on both sides of the political spectrum. There’s very few subjects that I can’t sit down and at least come to some sort of middle ground on as far as politics go, but I feel that many people, while they say they are the same way, as soon as the tables are turned they seem to go crazy defending their view and rule out all other peoples views. During the election I had a person accuse me of being a bigot while they themselves were telling me my opinion didn’t matter. That’s supposed to be one of the cornerstones of the United States. A melting pot of opinions, and religions and people. I always seem to totter back and forth on where i land in everything. I’ve voted left, and I’ve voted right. People seem so quick to lose their tempers these days instead of being able to have a meaningful conversation. I’m not even sure where I want to start with all of this. There’s so much going on in Washington these days. 
Today I said goodbye. I said goodbye to a friend who I’ve never been to the movies with. A friend I’ve never gone to the park with. Never went cruising around with. We’d never gone to the bar together. Never been to church together. Never met in person. Never had dinner together. Never had any meal together. But we’ve spent easily hundreds of hours “together”. We’ve spent countless hours chatting it up. Countless hours running people over in Grand Theft Auto V. Countless hours shooting ships in Elite: Dangerous. We’d spent countless hours in Skype. Ken was a regular guest of the Podcast / Stream that I’m part of. Many games we’d played together, many hours of deep chat about life, wives, kids, work, and everything else between. 
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or maybe Monday. We slept in until like 2pm! Which, for Shereen, is par for the course, but for me, that’s the most I’ve been able to sleep in, in months. We went and saw a movie, Central Intelligence Agency.