Author Topic: Great reddit thread on things uber drivers overhear (Read 3666 times)

Army of One · « **on:** July 04, 2016, 02:53:40 AM »

Some gold in there, this though was just.....

"Former Uber driver here. Picked a girl up a sweet girl from a bar on a Wednesday night - absolutely hammered, about 10pm. She got into my car, apologized for being so drunk and politely asked if we could just drive around a little while, with the windows down.
I was prepping for a cleaning fee, trying to drive and pull a vomit bag out of the glove box, but no, she just did that airplane thing with one hand out the backseat window. She asked me if I had ever thought about dying, to which I replied, yeah - I guess so.
That's when she told me that she had cancer. It was in her brain and it was too far gone to consider chemo. I remember my heart just pounding. She told me she was dying and she was going to be okay. Tonight she was celebrating with her work friends who threw her a going-away party. She told them she was taking a position abroad.
"I just didn't tell them that abroad was heaven."
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. I turned off my app and cried my ass all the way home."

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4r4a7r/uber_drivers_whats_the_deepest_secrets_youve/

Army of One · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2016, 03:19:16 AM »

Which getbigger was this?

"I haven't really heard anything too juicy, but so far my favorite was this one.
I picked up two guys in downtown LA. From their conversation I gather they'd just met at the bar I picked them up from and were going home to hook up. One was younger and clean cut, the other was older and rather scruffy. So I'm driving up Main Street to the 101 and the scruffy guy starts talking about how he used to live there in the 90s and it was a whole lot scummier back then. He mentions he used to have an older boyfriend back then. The boyfriend would call the scruffy guy and tell him to walk down to the sidewalk in a tied off shirt and daisy dukes. Then the boyfriend would drive up in his car and the scruffy guy would lean in his window and the boyfriend would ask him how much, and the scruffy guy would get in and they'd roleplay that he was a prostitute and the boyfriend was his john.
The clean cut guy kinda glossed over this and moved the conversation along, but I thought to myself that scenario sounds hot as hell."

Marty Champions · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2016, 05:09:12 AM »

get a grip army on some veggie wangs

_aj_ · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2016, 05:15:15 AM »

The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.

Army of One · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2016, 05:34:41 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 05:15:15 AM

The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.

He uses the word "hammered" which I believe Americans don't generally use for blind drunk but Brits do, our healthcare is free.

_aj_ · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2016, 06:19:32 AM »

Quote from: Army of One on July 04, 2016, 05:34:41 AM

He uses the word "hammered" which I believe Americans don't generally use for blind drunk but Brits do, our healthcare is free.

We use "hammered" all the time here. Never considered another country because of my America-centric worldview.

Army of One · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2016, 06:23:42 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 06:19:32 AM

We use "hammered" all the time here. Never considered another country because of my America-centric worldview.

What about "absolutely hammered"?

dr.chimps · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2016, 06:27:10 AM »

Quote from: Army of One on July 04, 2016, 06:23:42 AM

What about "absolutely hammered"?

Yup. Total nomenclature. Beauty!

240 is Back · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2016, 09:43:47 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 05:15:15 AM

The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.

very good point there

Dave D · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2016, 09:52:32 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 05:15:15 AM

The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.

You're right about the story being bs, a young girl in the age of Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat would never be able to keep a secret like this. SOMEONE from work would know, social media has made the world a smaller place. But the family wouldnt be on the hook for the medical bills.

HTexan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 04, 2016, 11:04:12 AM »

I havec a friend/old workout partner that did it for a few months. He is 6'5 and jacked. He says that he always had people offer him food, to party with them, and drunk women hitting on him. I believe he stop doing it because people threw up in his car a few times.

TuHolmes · « **Reply #11 on:** July 04, 2016, 11:10:47 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 05:15:15 AM

The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.

depending on age and when, she may be covered under her parents plan still.

Obama care and all of that.

My guess is within the past couple of years. So if she was 23 or so and was going to die in a couple of months, she could still be covered under her parents plan.

_aj_ · « **Reply #12 on:** July 04, 2016, 11:51:06 AM »

Quote from: TuHolmes on July 04, 2016, 11:10:47 AM

depending on age and when, she may be covered under her parents plan still.

Obama care and all of that.

My guess is within the past couple of years. So if she was 23 or so and was going to die in a couple of months, she could still be covered under her parents plan.

Occam's Razor: it's BS.

TuHolmes · « **Reply #13 on:** July 04, 2016, 12:05:13 PM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 11:51:06 AM

Occam's Razor: it's BS.

It may be. However we will truly never know.

Just because you claim it, doesn't necessarily make it so.

Army of One · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2016, 01:05:48 PM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 11:51:06 AM

Occam's Razor: it's BS.

Unless he lives outside of America, aka the other 95% of the world

TuHolmes · « **Reply #15 on:** July 04, 2016, 01:08:58 PM »

Quote from: Army of One on July 04, 2016, 01:05:48 PM

Unless he lives outside of America, aka the other 95% of the world

Also true.

MAXX · « **Reply #16 on:** July 04, 2016, 01:18:28 PM »

Mr Anabolic · « **Reply #17 on:** July 04, 2016, 01:30:49 PM »

The US is starting to become oversaturated with Uber drivers. I read that 70-80% of the people in the US who can't find a real job become Uber drivers. How many people really need a drive somewhere? It's much cheaper to take public trans. It's getting ridiculous.

240 is Back · « **Reply #18 on:** July 04, 2016, 02:00:53 PM »

Quote from: Mr Anabolic on July 04, 2016, 01:30:49 PM

The US is starting to become oversaturated with Uber drivers. I read that 70-80% of the people in the US who can't find a real job become Uber drivers. How many people really need a drive somewhere? It's much cheaper to take public trans. It's getting ridiculous.

i see them all the time when i'm playing clubs. young people LOVE it. it's trendy, convenient, and they often end up partying with the uber driver.

HTexan · « **Reply #19 on:** July 04, 2016, 08:43:51 PM »

Quote from: Mr Anabolic on July 04, 2016, 01:30:49 PM

The US is starting to become oversaturated with Uber drivers. I read that 70-80% of the people in the US who can't find a real job become Uber drivers. How many people really need a drive somewhere? It's much cheaper to take public trans. It's getting ridiculous.

Fuck that. Too long. Uber is banned here in austin, but went it wasnt. I would used it for going to the air port, and when car was in the shop. Ride was something like 10 or 20 bucks.
Plus, it's great for late nights if you party.

WannaBePro · « **Reply #20 on:** July 05, 2016, 04:40:23 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 04, 2016, 05:15:15 AM

The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.

Canada has universal healthcare, too. And we speak "American" English, for the most part, as well haha. "Hammered," "totally hammered," "absolutely hammered," all that stupid shit.

_aj_ · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2016, 04:43:05 AM »

Quote from: Army of One on July 04, 2016, 01:05:48 PM

Unless he lives outside of America, aka the other 95% of the world

Because Uber serves the mud huts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Army of One · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2016, 05:15:20 AM »

Quote from: _aj_ on July 05, 2016, 04:43:05 AM

Because Uber serves the mud huts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Uber is used in 75 countries worldwide, meaning it's a 1.3% chance the user was an uber driver in the USA.Have you ever been outside the USA?

Tha Grim Lifter · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2016, 06:20:48 AM »

Uber is banned in QLD I think but not NSW in Australia. It should be as Taxi's pay a lot in licencing and it's unfair but the politicians had no balls and obviously someone paid them to legalise it here. Being App only young people love it and it's cheaper of course but in reality it shouldn't be cheaper just Google plays it as being the underdog and being treated unfairly.

gib · « **Reply #24 on:** July 05, 2016, 06:31:18 AM »

Any thing that helps destroy union power has to be good. The taxi mafia need to say goodbye to their monopoly.