13. Who knows what almost happened to this driver:
It’s about 10:30 pm. I get a request and accept it. It’s a 20-something-year-old girl just getting off work at a retail clothing store. She needs a ride to her home, about 35 minutes outside the city limits. Cool, long ride = more money. Get to her house, she gets out and I drive away. Now, I’m about 25+ miles away from the city so I don’t really expect to get any hits out there. I’m about to head back in when I get another request. This one is another 30 minutes further outside the city limits. Hmm…maybe this person wants to go downtown. That’s an hour long ride = $$$. I’m down. Start heading their way. It’s a beautiful night so I cruise the whole way with my windows down.
Long, winding, narrow roads. No street lights for miles. Finally, I come across the property. It’s a ranch-style place. I turn in. Still no lights. Pitch black. I drive in for about two miles with no signs of a house. I’m doubting my GPS at this point. Oh well, I’m already this far. Keep going.
Oh cool, a house! No lights on. Something doesn’t seem right. I swing my car around to face the exit, leave my car in drive and rest my foot on the brake, just in case, and waited for a while. Nothing. Let me give the guy a call.
He answers. Sounds confused.
“Hey, I’m your Uber driver, I’m outside. Take your time, I’m here whenever you’re ready.”
“Uber? I didn’t request a ride.”
“Hmm? I’m at ###XXXXX, Texas. Your address and information comes up on my app.”
“Texas? I’m in Indiana. I’ve never been to Texas. Please don’t charge me.” Hangs up.
In that moment, I felt the already pitch black night get darker. I turn down the radio. My window was still open and so I started listening.
You know that sound of a dirt road when somebody is walking on it? How it crunches and you can hear every step? Imagine that sound, but there are two sets of feet. And they’re running. Getting louder. I look out my rear view mirror and the only light is from the red parking lights of my car.
Two men. All black clothes painted red by my brake lights. Sprinting. Getting closer. Getting louder.
I slammed on the gas, my car threw pebbles and rocks at them as I semi-burned out and I hauled ass as fast as I could out of that property. Got back on that winding road, followed it all the way to a well-lit gas station, shifted to park, and sat there, stunned. What just happened?
I tried following up with Uber. Nothing really came of it. To this day I’ll always have to wonder what happened that night.
14. These passengers were definitely not great at keeping their own secret:
I had a fare where two drunk people who were making out in the back of my cab. This isn’t unusual on its own, happens quite often, just gotta stop them before shit gets out of hand.
Well, one of them decides to stop making out and says to me” Don’t tell anyone, okay?”. Curious, I ask why, he responds “we are cousins and we don’t want our family to find out”…then they went back to making out again. I didn’t once think they could have possibly been cousins, never saw either people before or after. Could have just kept his mouth shut and I’d never have known, Why would you disclose that information to a stranger?
15. Apparently, Uber drivers frequently get the inside scoop on infidelity:
I picked up a drunk couple from a bar. As soon as they got in the car, the woman was telling me about the cocaine they just did in the bathroom.
She then went on to tell me that she was his maid and they were fucking and his wife didn’t know. She would wear the wife’s lingerie. Also, she was screwing around with the wife.
I was taking them to the guy’s secret apartment where he did cocaine and screwed his maid.
He felt a little bad for me, so he gave me all the cash that he had as a tip… Seven dollars. I guess he spent it all on coke.
16. And, who could forget the standard bachelorette party shenanigans?:
Picked up a group of young ladies during a bachelorette party. The bride to be sits in the front and while driving to their destination, she rolls down the window and whips out a giant dildo for all of downtown to Chicago to see.