Lawyers always know a “faster” route. Kids hate talking to strangers. Women are scared. And sometimes, talkative 20-somethings just nail it.
indiscreet. Do you realise what you just said? In the back of your Uber? In the presence of a stranger? You said more than you should have. And someone was listening. Not a Google or Amazon speaker but a real person who, depending on the traffic and their disposition, was either distracted and uninterested or hanging on your every word.
Surprises happen when you don’t know who you’ll pick up. It could be a junkie or a multi-millionaire, a joker or a misanthrope. The junkies tend to be more entertaining, including the stoner who couldn’t accompany his mate into the bottle shop because “it’s one of my bail conditions”. But you leave me wondering. So many rides end as cliffhangers.
Nor will I take people for granted again, as was my wont. You meet some extraordinary, unheralded people driving an Uber. Like the woman picking up her cancer medication who’d been a foster carer for three young children in another state before adopting them in a bruising, three-year process and moving to Sydney to protect them from their abusive parents. All I do is coach my kid’s sports team.Women sit behind the driver so they can’t be seen in the rear-vision mirror. They expect leering.
There are too many traumatised or nervous women. Women sit behind the driver so they can’t be seen in the rear-vision mirror. They expect leering. One woman took a call from the hotel she’d just left, asking if she would return. “No, I don’t feel safe in your hotel.” Incredibly, the concierge just said OK and hung up. Then there was a 10pm job in a leafy, affluent suburb that didn’t require any transport.
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