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My water broke in his front seat. I was in a SUV with 3 PPMDs & another SM. Definitely my most memorable ride back from a team lunch.
Thread over. You win.
I dont miss the uber driver chats, I am usually too stressed out or too tired to talk. I miss meeting strangers at the airport and having impromptu dates at the lounge.
I did actually arrange a date with one seat buddy and hook up IRL as well btw. So not just dates at the airport 😉 #CMCDATING
Let's see...I had one refuse to let me out of his car unless I gave him my number. Had to pretend to be a lesbian to get out. It was 5 a.m.
Yeouch
Don’t miss this. Got my fair share of creeps that made me feel so unsafe
Yuppp
One of my favorite ones with an ex consultant and HR exec who had retired. He realized he was really bored.
He was also an early riser, so would drive from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. and then go to the donut shop and meet his friends.
This is so wholesome 🍩🤎
A while back before Uber, I had a driver who grew up poor, got his PhD in chemistry at CMU, worked at Los Alamos, then just said F this stress I’m going drive a cab and get a steady income. Dude was amazing.
There are 2 different National Labs in NM. Los Alamos National Lab is in the northern part of the state in the town of Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs is in the middle of the state in Albuquerque. They have different cultures but are both very deep science oriented. The political in-fighting can be wearing, though and the management companies that “oversee” the labs are just stupid tax to the government that make everything run slower.
I miss Uber drivers and bartenders the most
That time where I flipped my Uber setting to “don’t talk to me please” and didn’t worry about entertaining another human in my moments of peace and quiet.
I was on my Uber back from the airport late in Chicago and my Uber driver was trying to convince me that we don’t need to build robots and AI because we’re all robots controlled by the government.
Had a polygamist driver who talked about hating racism while being lowkey racist and about how his wife and girlfriend were fighting over custody of his niece, since he and his wife had already lost custody of 2 of their other kids from “the govt conspiracy” as his wife was facing cancer. There’s a lot more but this is as short as I can summarize lol
I had this really dope Uber driver once... the ride ended with us crying together, hugging, and thanking each other before I got on my Monday morning flight to the client site. We were both rape survivors who had overcome codependent relationships with our parents and had also both recently got out of really toxic relationships with narcissists. We shared how we were able to heal and still working on healing and it was just so beautiful and raw to connect with a stranger on that level. We both needed it and it was a reminder that everyone has a story. You never know what you may have in common. We probably never would have run into each other outside of that ride.
One told me about the different steroids he had taken years ago, then how he got a serious illness that prescribed him larger doses of testosterone than he had ever taken, and how that illness interferes with his construction company he ran on the side. Ride was less than 10 minutes
Yep, miss this