One of the later starts that I have done but I knew that even at 10pm there would be someone wanting to go somewhere and that I would probably end up downtown sooner or later.
Sure enough, a request came in. Beautiful young lady that went straight for the passenger seat. We talked for the duration of the trip to downtown Austin. I noticed that the app had me going to I35 but in our conversations I wanted to run her by West 6th so she could see that area. Even as we turned south on Mopac, the app kept trying to redirect us. I begin to suspect that something was up downtown and then I remembered that it was Pride weekend. My offer to show off part of the town turned into a traffic and pedestrian nightmare as the events were ending and we were right at 5th and Guadalupe where they had all ended. I was finally able to make our way to 6th and Colorado and she was fine with walking a few blocks to 6th street. She asked if it would be safe and I told her it would but to not talk to strangers.
So, I dropped off the first rider but was still stuck on Colorado and now another request had come in from west 6th and I had no way to turn around and get back to 6th street. It took forever to get up to 7th street where I turned west and then begin working my way to the pick up. I had been texting the rider and letting him know what was going on. I made it to the pick up spot and couldn't find them. I went around again and saw who I thought was them across the street but I was in no position to get over there so I started around again. They sent a text letting me know they were outside and I explained to them that I thought I had seen them and was going around again to be able to pick them up. I went up an extra block and then turned west on 6th giving me lots of room to maneuver in the packed traffic to get over to them. DAMMITT! the guy yelled out when I pulled up and called his name. He wasn't mad, just relieved that I had finally made it. I too expressed how glad I was to see them and to finally get them into the vehicle.
After dropping them off I had a pick up at BT2 and going downtown. Dropped them off and had a Pool ride with 2 of the riders going back to that same place. The other group in the pool was headed to Top Golf. From there picked up someone on Rock Rose in the Domain that were going out to 360 and 2222. Got pinged from Shooters and took them to Steiner Ranch. I usually don't have a problem with 2am stuff but I was feeling like I was going to fall asleep so I headed home.
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