Friday, May 24, 2019

05/23/19

Oh yeah!  A smorgasbord of four-letter words surrounding  a cornucopia of f-bombs. A very colorful conversation with an ex military gentleman that was equally as interesting as it was colorful.

It is UT graduation this weekend.  I had one rider tonight that will be part of those activities as he is part of the "UT Class of 2019".  He didn't talk much but I was able to get out of him that he was glad to be graduating and would be going on to law school after a brief vacation period.

Dropped off the rider in an area near Mount Bonnell and couldn't find my way out of the damn neighborhood.  I usually just turn around and retrace my steps but I was sure that I knew where the roads would lead me to.  They did not lead me to anything except half a dozen cul de sacs on the sides of hills.

Wow how the tall, shapely, confident, well spoken, sociable, engaging, Australian accented female had my attention.  Additionally, I was running extremely low on gasoline and was not sure how I was going to work in a gasoline stop.  Like a dream she climbed into my vehicle and then said, "would it be okay if we stopped somewhere so I can buy some cigarettes".  "Of course", I said, knowing that my problem had just been solved.  There was a convenience store near by and we pulled up to it.  "I'll be right back," she said as I was trying not go into shock at the $2.74 a gallon price of the gasoline.  I had $10 pumped into the vehicle and was back in the drivers seat and she never knew what had happened, although it may have seemed odd to her that I was parking next to a gas pump when there was acres of parking next to the store.

I screwed up twice on one ride tonight, which has not happened before.  I drove past the frickin' hard to see drive way when trying to pick them up, then I took the wrong entrance ramp getting on the freeway.  I decided it was time to go home after this trip.  I offered compensation to both (it was an Uber Pool ride and there were 2 people) and neither accepted stating everything was fine.  Then I went home.

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