I have noticed that most times it takes a while to get the first request. Then once the first one hits, they become almost continuous. I started out with the errand of mailing a box that was already ready to go. I had almost made it to the post office when the first request came in. It took 4 rides before I finally made it by the Post Office.
All of the rides ended up being in the Cedar Park, Leander, North Austin area spanning from as for south as the Domain and as far north as Liberty Hill. There have been very few times where this has happened. It is more common to take someone downtown and then never escape. I had 2 requests in Liberty Hill which was a first.
Another first was a person's name that I had never heard before.
Did about 4 hours of driving today. Trips were shorter and it took a little longer to get the money I wanted for the day.
Had a family from Minnesota that said it was -20 degrees when they left this morning. I stated that our 38-degree weather today was probably a heatwave for them. This was the only group that was very talkative. None of the other riders throughout the afternoon had much to say.
As I walked into the house, I had a random thought about how a caveman would go out during the day with the goal of bringing home dinner. Upon his return he would step into his cave and announce to his significant other, Honey, I'm home! but in a grunting kind of caveman language. He would hold up a malnourished, roughed-up, chicken-looking thing that he claimed to have killed with his club, but that in reality was already almost dead anyway, and he would present it as a trophy that the great hairy caveman had overpowered and brought home for dinner. In my case, I step in the door after being "out there on the hunt", and say, "babe I am home" in English, hold up my smart phone to celebrate the "victorious hunt" and to signify the electronic equivalent of money that I can transfer electronically to my bank account, and we can go have dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse. Quite the contrast and definitely evolutionary.
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