Audience Submission: Uber Pool
(Submitted by @biologicallyimpaired)
From my friend’s timeline, shared with permission:
“So I do uber pool to save money. I have only ever had one unsafe experience, no biggie. Tonight made two. The driver was obviously uncomfortable, but laughed it off.
I got in the uber and he let me know we were picking up another rider, which is cool, no biggie. We pick the guy up and from the start he’s drunk enough to be smelling and slurring. At this point I’m mildly uncomfortable, but we are only a few minutes from my house, so I shut up. When the driver lets him know I’m getting dropped off first, the guy asks to stop by the gas station across the street so he can get singles for a strip club, and asks me and the uber driver to come with him to the club. Now I’m getting really uncomfortable and just wanted to get home. The guy gets back in the car and we head to drop me off. The other rider turns to look at me and says "where are you going little girl?”. I just say “home”. He asks where I’ve been, I say “school”. He says he’s gone to school and that he’s an engineer. Then he asks if I’m a crazy liberal. When I don’t answer, he goes on this rant that I must not believe in God. I tell him quietly that religion and politics are separate. He goes on a rant about how women have an extra rib, and being a bio minor, I tell him otherwise. He started talking about how we took God out of schools and that people like me have no morals because of that. Finally we pull up to my house and I run home and inside. I’ve been in situations like that before, but never in confined quarters. The worst part was how trapped I felt- in a moving car, there’s nowhere to go :/ “