Busy Tuesday. Picked up a gentleman downtown who had not used Ridesharing before. Lots of great conversation with this gentleman. He had an accent that I couldn't figure out at first but when he told me that he grew up in southern Africa and is currently living in Ireland, it made perfect sense. It was so interesting and funny to here him say "fuck" or "fuckin". When he said it, it sounded like "fook" or "fookin ". It's still sounded like profanity regardless of the accent.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
11/13/17
$108 in about 3 hours.
I have never seen a mother talk about cars to her 2 sons like this lady did. They were speaking their primary language until they would say the manufacturer and model of the car which they would say in English. They knew their stuff.
Monday, November 6, 2017
11/04/2017
First weekend night behind the wheel for Uber in almost a year. Lots of activity and no drunken idiots. Even the last ride that was almost at midnight, was a young lady that had been baby setting for someone at the Driskill and was headed home.
Picked up 5 people at the 360 bridge boat dock. They were all in the lumber business in some form or another. There was a lot of talk about OSB from Russia and OSB from China. I had no idea but looked it up when I got home. Oriented Strand Board, an engineered lumber product.
This same group began talking about a problem with cougars in the north east United States. I laughed to myself as I thought, we have a cougar problem in Austin but it is the 2 legged kind of cougar problem instead of the 4 legged kind. I kept that one to myself.
10 rides tonight. This will probably be it for the week, so that will put me at 20 rides for the first week back with Uber. So far so good. Even though it is a hobby, I still need to gather $600 a month for the car payment. Should be easy enough.
Picked up 5 people at the 360 bridge boat dock. They were all in the lumber business in some form or another. There was a lot of talk about OSB from Russia and OSB from China. I had no idea but looked it up when I got home. Oriented Strand Board, an engineered lumber product.
This same group began talking about a problem with cougars in the north east United States. I laughed to myself as I thought, we have a cougar problem in Austin but it is the 2 legged kind of cougar problem instead of the 4 legged kind. I kept that one to myself.
10 rides tonight. This will probably be it for the week, so that will put me at 20 rides for the first week back with Uber. So far so good. Even though it is a hobby, I still need to gather $600 a month for the car payment. Should be easy enough.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
11/01/2017
I have been left to ponder the description that one of the riders used to describe someone that he knows. "An albino black woman that is a Johovah Witness". ????
The idea this evening was to just "test the waters" as I started back up driving with Uber. 5 hours later I had completed the most trips ever at 16. I had never picked up from the hotel Ella and had 2 tonight. Similarly, I had never dropped off at the South Congress Hotel and had 2 of those as well. A drop of at AT&T Conference Center and hotel and another at The Element Hotel. Definitely a hotel kind of night. Also had a drop off at the Governor's Mansion. Three smokin' hot ladies and two decent looking guys. Most of the other guys were dufuses.
I witnessed an employee, possibly the manager, at Caliber Collision walk a female customer about 50 yards to get to my vehicle. Good customer service extra effort kind of thing.
Austin traffic sucks!
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