Really late start tonight. Possibly the latest ever at 10:30pm. I wasn't expecting to go for very long, but the demand was good, and the ride requests kept coming in.
At some point after midnight, I received a request somewhere in northeast Austin, possibly Pflugerville but I wasn't for sure where I was. I had decided to end the night but went ahead and accepted the request. I approached the traffic light at an intersection that appeared to be a downtown area. As I proceded through the intersection, there was a man waving over to the location where the request had come from. I pulled in and rolled down my window and confirmed that he was part of the group of riders and that the others were coming. They didn't immediately show up, so he went up the nearby wheelchair ramp to get them. There were 2 men and a lady and one of the older men was very drunk. He was talking all of that drunk talk stuff, and I was playing right along with him as I invited to set in the front passenger seat. One of the people in the back was having trouble getting a cell signal and made a comment about the provider. Apparently that same company was the cable provider for the drunk guy and he started ranting about how his wife wouldn't pay the fuckin' cable bill. The people in the back were laughing and keeping the tirade alive. As we approached his house, the drunk commented that he didn't have a key. He said he was going to have to go down the chimney like, ---- "what's that guy's name?" "Santa Claus?" I blurted out. "Yeah, like that fuckin' guy!" I was rolling in laughter, then he said, "nah, I don't have a chimney", which was immediately followed by an outburst of "the bitch stole my fuckin' chimney!" I was laughing so hard. As he got out he was still carrying on but paused for a second, turned around towards me and said, "thanks, your a good man". (I am still laughing)
The inside of the vehicle smelled like cigarette smoke as the drunk was also a smoker and even though he didn't smoke inside the vehicle, it still was full of cigarette smoke smell. I had forgot to log off of the app as I was going to call it a night with $86. A request came in and it was for over $20. Looks like I was going to make my $100 after all. I accepted it and then picked up speed so I could lower the windows and get the smoke smell out of the vehicle. It was a dark road so I could not see what was off to either side but when I lowered all of the windows to get the cigarette smoke smell out, the smell of what was surely a thousand-acre horse farm and all of the horse shit smell that goes along with it, came rolling in. Even before I could say holy shit, I had the windows all back up. I made it to the pick-up and the rider was wearing some kind of burnt Pinesol perfume that promptly extinguished any concerns I had about any lingering cigarette or horse shit smells. She was headed to the airport and I still was not sure what part of town I was in, so I just followed the app until we popped out at the tollway. Dropped her off at the airport at 2:30 am and made sure that I logged off of the app this time, then headed straight home as fast as I could.
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