Sing Me a Song

All my lady friends who were in High School or College in the early to mid 90s can relate to this. We are on a late night road trip. Tunes are pumping: NSync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Spice Girls. We are singing along and waving our hands in the air like we just don’t care.…

Playa(ing) With Fire

Go to a pickup with clearly a girls name. Get there and it’s a guy holding a phone. He asks if I am there for (correct name supplied) and when I confirm says he needs to run phone back inside to girlfriend. No big this happens regularly. As we are leaving another girls drives by…

You Requested a Ride For a Reason

Close to end of the night and pull up to a bar in a fairly high end location. The bar is on a corner and there are literally 2 police Tahoes at each side. Waiting for passengers and there are a dozen or so people outside. One guy decides to start something (again 2 cop…

Just Another Night in the Drive Thru

This wasn’t my passenger, but they were involved. Had the standard dropoff where my passengers requested we stop for food, in this case McDonalds. Pull up to window so passengers can get their food via back seat windows. I suddenly hear this screaming just outside my car window. This crazy woman, let’s just call her…

Play that Funky Music

This will be one of the few times I mention race simply because it is relevant and funny as hell. On holidays I build specific holiday mixes. This was Halloween and I picked up four passengers who were all hispanic or black and fairly young (early 20s). They were also all drunk. One of them…