Weird street name that I had not noticed before. Ptarmigan Drive? I picked up a lady and dropped her off at an address on that street. The destination address was clearly visible on the app and as I approached the destination, the address was even more visible on the side of the house. I usually don't pull into driveways, but the address was so obvious and there was a lot of room in the driveway, so I pulled up. I tried to make it sound like a special thing for the passenger and she thanked me. Then she exited my vehicle and walked to the house next door. I had taken her to the wrong address although it was the one that she had put in the app. Still, I felt like a dumb ass bragging about curb service when it wasn't even the right curb.
The next ride had already come in and I went ahead and used the neighbor's driveway, that I was already erroneously in, as a means to turn around and head to the Domain. I picked up the rider and activated the trip in the app. Guess where this guy was going. Yep. Ptarmigan Drive.
So, I am about to enter this experience into this blog and was telling my friend about the weird ass street name. I realized that the street name surely had some kind of significance or meaning, so I looked it up. It's a fuckin' bird! Well, a grouse to be specific but I never in a hundred years would have guessed that it was the name of a living thing. And how did someone come up with a name like that? Maybe the same person that came up with the word Pflugerville.
The rider looked and talked just like a person from India. She was very talkative and informed me that she was from Romania. She then said that while she lived in Romania, she lived in Transilvania. Of course, all kinds of random and weird thoughts about Dracula come rushing into my mind. I kept my mouth shut as I was sure that there were probably many more notable things that Transilvania was known for, and I didn't want to be the shallow American that forms their perceptions based on movies and drama. I wasn't sure how to successfully get the question out there anyway. (So, did you know Dracula?)
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