I got dragged across the river, and a good 40 miles from home. It was late as fuck. I had picked up a couple from downtown to take them over the river into the other state. I asked them what Pandora station they wanted to listen to and the dude said, “Adelle - Hello”.
Well, I don’t have Adelle - Hello just ready to go so I opened YouTube and started to play the video. Dude starts singing at this high pitch cat scream and his girlfriend is laughing her ass off. I said, “Don’t make me bust out my karaoke app, man.”
“OH MY GOD! DO IT! DO IT!” his girlfriend shouts repeatedly.
And here we go. We all sang Hello together at the top of our lungs as we jammed down the rainy interstate and it all came to a sweet end right as I pull up to their spot.
“Best Uber ride ever!” they both exclaim as they exit my vehicle.
I’m thinking I’m about to head home now that it was after 3am but no, 30 seconds later, before I could turn my shit off, my phone chimes and it’s a pick up a few miles away. I had been having issues with Uber user navigation lately. Trying to pick up people in the parking lots behind their homes, arriving to locations where the rider is 10 miles away, arriving to locations where the rider is 5 blocks away... wasting time, miles and money for nothing... PLEASE let this girl be at this fucking location!
I had waited for about 5 minutes before she came stumbling out of the front door, clanking bottles and packing a container of pecans. I open the door for her and notice her cool ass teal colored hair and black roots. She was a pretty young lady with a raspy, chill, I’m drunk kind of voice. As she gets in, her bottles clank everywhere and she’s dropping shit. “Do you want some help?” I ask in a very casual tone.
“Oh naw, girl. Let’s go.”
She talked to me for a little bit, maybe a few blocks, before getting on her phone to make a call. But I didn’t realize right away that she was no longer talking to me... ugh. Haha.
Her ride was a good 20 minutes, out into the sticks, farther away from my home, farther away from the city. My black ass is thankful to have UBER stickers in my windows because it makes the police leave me the fuck alone.
She talked on the phone the entire time, only commenting where to turn for short cuts, and I obliged. We drove for what seemed forever and arrived to a pristine house in the country.
“You can pull in on that gravel.” she says to me as she hangs up her phone.
I open the door for her once we are parked and she reaches into her wallet to pull out some money. I’m always like... ohhhh nooo nooo, this is not necessary.... but take it anyway when people offer me tips. But this girl didn’t pull out a dollar, or a 5.. she pulled out a 20. I looked at her like she was crazy and sincerely was like “OH NO. No. That is not necessary!” lol
“Oh yes it is, girl. You drove me out to the boonies. Take it. Please.” she says with a drunken smile.
“Well, it’s my job to do that, sister.... but if you insist. .... Thank you.” I said with a smile.
“Thank you! Have a good night.” she says as she stumbles out of the car and off into the darkness of her driveway....
I drove like a bat out of hell to get home. Only took me 20 minutes. And I put that $20 in my tank. Hey!