[Cary Grant]

Ever get dinged and not know who, or why? I usually know who, and why. I often know before they exit the car, so I can ding 'em back, and write up their bad behavior.

Last couple of days, pleasant pax. Nice conversations, or blissfully quit. No issues, no problems. Sure, one reeked of cigarette smoke, and another one sprayed something chemically smelling in their hair while in my backseat. Pretty much everything went like clockwork, otherwise. No puke, no fights, everyone kept their clothes on. Practically Ubertopia!

And one of these dooosh yachts dinged me. I have no idea why.

 

[nighthawk398]

Probably trying to get a free ride I've seen on fb a flyer that listed the ways I will try to find it

Here is what I saw posted

 

[Uberdummy]

Oh my fav are the scumbags with names I can't pronounce whining to me their Lyft coupon code doesn't work and I need to fix it. Of course I can't so I know what's coming......so I one star em back and report them for abuse.

 

[Cary Grant]

Probably trying to get a free ride I've seen on fb a flyer that listed the ways I will try to find it

Here is what I saw posted

Thank you! That makes sense, although I suspect this is the kind of rip-off game that won't last long, because Uber will punk 'em, eventually. Now that I think of it, I did make several pick ups and drop offs in south Dallas in the last few days...

 

[TIMB]

Had a "safety" issue pop up over the weekend. Only think I can think of is when I swerved to miss a squirrel. Pax said, you should have just hit it.

 

[Cary Grant]

Good friend of mine does commercial insurance on truckers. He told me one of the most dangerous things a driver can do is swerve to avoid an animal, unless it's a horse or cow, and you're in a low slung convertible.

He told me about people swerving to avoid a small doe on a highway at night, and hitting a much larger buck in the other lane, just a few more feet down the road. Didn't see deer number two that came though the windshield.

Another anecdote was some client's daughter away at college. She swerved to avoid a dog, hit a jogger instead. She spent time in jail for that. Color me a jerk, but if it's me, the animal is going to squish. I'm not going to prison because a dog is playing chicken with traffic.

When I was in college, I saw two cars collide head on, because both tried to avoid hitting this one squirrel. The squirrel lived. Their cars...well...smashed up bad, even at 20 MPH.

 

[TIMB]

Good friend of mine does commercial insurance on truckers. He told me one of the most dangerous things a driver can do is swerve to avoid an animal

I stand corrected.

 

[OPTIONCB]

Probably trying to get a free ride I've seen on fb a flyer that listed the ways I will try to find it

Here is what I saw posted

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!!! Both I guess... I have been lucky so far, over 300 rides combined on Lyft and Uber, and not one really "bad" passenger, other than annoying drunk girl headed to Ft Worth with loud aux cable music and didn't shut up. But after hearing some of these stories, I feel like that was prob just one of those things!!

PS - yes, I taught both my daughters driver's ed, and the animal takes the hit. Or a box on the freeway or something, unless you are 110% positive there is NO ONE around you. Don't swerve! (I still wouldnt downgrade a driver for this, because it's natural instinct...) Anyway, we should make up our own list on how to get more money from passengers! 1. Take pics of fake vomit and claim they came from 'da club and was feelin' woozy, and they scarfed down 3 Whataburger orders in 5 minutes (see the bag picture?) I want mah cleanin' fee! 2) Loop around the block a few times, and claim the driver was telling you where to go...

 

[Uberdummy]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!!! Both I guess... I have been lucky so far, over 300 rides combined on Lyft and Uber, and not one really "bad" passenger, other than annoying drunk girl headed to Ft Worth with loud aux cable music and didn't shut up. But after hearing some of these stories, I feel like that was prob just one of those things!!

PS - yes, I taught both my daughters driver's ed, and the animal takes the hit. Or a box on the freeway or something, unless you are 110% positive there is NO ONE around you. Don't swerve! (I still wouldnt downgrade a driver for this, because it's natural instinct...) Anyway, we should make up our own list on how to get more money from passengers! 1. Take pics of fake vomit and claim they came from 'da club and was feelin' woozy, and they scarfed down 3 Whataburger orders in 5 minutes (see the bag picture?) I want mah cleanin' fee! 2) Loop around the block a few times, and claim the driver was telling you where to go...

300 rides? Your Uber cherry aint even popped and bleeding down your leg yet. Wait til you have 5000 rides gone by......you will learn a whole new level of hate for people.

 

[OPTIONCB]

Well, I tend to always assume the ride will go well.... so I have a better than average attitude when I go into the night, and shake off any that don't. and do pretty well in tips. (I have a fresh smelling car, compliments of the Glade air freshener that my Wal-Mart passenger pickup forgot in my back seat! So I am ahead $2.39 right there!!)

Sure, I get pissed off but if I truly hated it, I could just quit. Perhaps at 5K rides I will hate it. But right now, I am using my analytics background to optimize my rides and avoid slow / crappy areas. Doesn't always work, and nothing is 100% foolproof.

 

[Cary Grant]

It was around 4,000 trips where I started to struggle internally with the attitude (or Dallitude) of bad pax. I'm about double that now. Beer and whiskey are my saviors.

 

[fxcruiser]

CG! Jesus wants you to worship at the Altar of Balvenie and Woodford Reserve...Nay, He commands it! Religion over.
Do you Fellas not record? The very second the Sheep enter the Pen (so to speak) they are Stars on my little screen....Audio as well....of course!

 

[shadolanie]

Guess Ill put the dash cam back up. Ive found even if its not actually plugged in and recording, it does what I intended it to do. Keeps the potential Jackholes in line.

 

[fxcruiser]

EXACTLY....CYA!