Sundays. Terrible for cabs.
Some of my cab issues:
- no one in my area
- No one wants the trip
- hard to get rides weekends/at walmart
- $3 a mile
Bus issues:
- Have to walk a half mile to the bus stop
- Only run every half hour
- People who ride the bus
So I finally decided to take a look at the Uber app. I signed up. I can use Google Pay. It put me on a map using my cell phone location - really alarming when you think about it. AND it's a Sunday, later in the day, horrible for any other ride and they had SIX cars within 5 miles of me. SIX.
I find that highly encouraging. Highly. We will see but it's looking good. I still plan to call my guys but maybe not as often.
And I just found a DPS (drivers license) office not far from my house! That is an easy short cab ride. Or Uber. :p
So, I did it... thanks to advice. Transportation is always a huge issue for me so something quick is a blessing. And I was really impressed to see all those cars in my area. That is IMPRESSIVE.
I used to have a cab app from our "big boy" in Houston and the cars were always far away. Uber may win my business.
Now I assume I can leave a standard tip on the app but then give some cash to the driver for fantastic service? I do that with my Walmart drivers.
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Uber driver here again:
Good job heather! And good job on decluttering!
So you can do Uber eats to order food. You can do Uber groceries too! Those aren’t cheap—but you can explore.
You can tip as much or as little as you want. Also you rate us. Drivers need to have 4.6 or above to stay in the job. (We also rate you! I’m sure you will do well. I’m a 4.92 as both a driver and rider.)
There’s normal Uber, which is just you.
There’s also Uber pool where you may share the ride with others but it’s far cheaper and can take a little longer. I don’t think you’d like that for to and from your house but when running errands store to store that’s good? May take a little longer (like five minutes) but also is cheap!
The cars are cleaner than cabs.
I know someone but up an Uber driver criminal, but all jobs have weirdos. We are checked! Also since we are rated it weeds out the bad ones. Most drivers have clean cars and are accommodating with music, etc.
The reason we like it, you get bonuses for rides given, so people want as many as they can get! And it may be cheaper than a cab but we keep a good bit of the cash and we don’t need to pay for a taxi license, etc. we can work whenever we want. Also there are tons of cars around, you never have to wait in a major city no matter where you are.
If things are very busy, it will say it’s surging, it charges more—but based on where and when you use it, that won’t be an issue for you as much. Think like rush hour in very busy areas or Saturday night leaving bars in party areas.
Oh, I'm not a party girl.
I played with the app before I turned off my phone. $20 for a ride to work, cheaper than yellow AND they had a guy in my area. I got Walmart in there too. I didn't check to see what that would run but I venture not much. With yellow it is about $14 so I'll check tomorrow. Easy to put in an address. I like it a lot better than the Z trip I think they called it, very buggy and I could never get it to work.
I am super happy with Walmart grocery delivery so no rush to change that. :)
Glad you are giving Uber a try! I have only used it when I traveled to a big city but I know people who use it a lot and I think it will work out good for you.
What did your parents mainly have a problem with moving a phone call to Sundays?, what did they say to you? That’s frustrating.
The gist of it was Dad said he guessed it was OK for me to call him on Sunday. In a tone that indicated he wasn't crazy about the concept but would allow it.
Interestingly enough, I remember in my house growing up ALL the calls to out of town relatives were made Sundays. Because it was cheaper. Now that is done.
I am just not always up for family after a long day at work.
Heather I use Uber and lyft interchangeably you can pull up the rates and times on each a lot of drivers work both but sometimes you really can get a better deal on one vs the other. I am really considering giving up my car I live in the city and most places I run to cost $6-7 considerably cheaper than keeping a car with higher insurance in the city as well as the cost to park these services have a deal with our city emergency services for non urgent transportation free to our patients ( the city pays to ease the burden on emergency services) when we need to transport safe patients we need to send to the hospital by private car if they don’t have or . It employees a tremendous number of amazing people. I will privately email you details of a recent event since your curmudgeon loves to jump on stuff like I want to share.. go heather!
Can the poster above knock off the attacking of other posters? Sheesh
Wow. If my parents - or anyone - were to act like it's an imposition to have me call them and that they're doing me a favor by granting me an audience ... they won't be hearing from me at all. Yikes! Also they are free to place a call to you, any time, why is the responsibility all on you? As an adult, you have agency now. Use it! If they want to have contact with you, you get to teach them that the phone calls have to work for both sides. And if they don't work for you, you get to withdraw your participation. It's amazing what happens once you act like a person deserving of respect.
I may do a blog about this but I cut off contact at one point for some years. Even when I started back up again my Dad would do the whole "favor to take your phone call" routine. So I stopped calling and it took him a couple months to realize he would have to call me. But he hated it and asked me to do the legwork. I generally don't mind.
From what I have heard my stepbrother has a very volatile life with various crises and dramas. Current one, baby mama is fighting him on custody. So when he calls I venture it is not generally positive.
Me, when I call it may be "Ron got drunk and fell on the floor but he is fine" and then I move on to something else. I think last time I told them I wanted to get Ron more protein as I worried about that... but low key.
If they ever call me I figure it is an emergency, but when Dad was in the hospital he just had her send out emails vs calling. Even to me. My aunt opened hers first and was like "What is this?" And then when he had surgery the last time my stepmother called HER daughter (no relation to my dad) right after but neglected to call either me or my aunt after promising she would do so "the minute they knew". So my aunt and I were thinking my Dad was dead or in ICU.. she called (I was too upset) and they told her "Oh, he's been fine for hours." PISSED. She was sah-ree but we had a very bad day out of that. I wrote a blog about it and some of it got back to her because she was very defensive. I was upset because she specifically told my aunt and I NOT to call her, she would call us. And didn't. And I know all about having a loved one in surgery, done it how many times with Ron?
About my stepmother. She took what she thought was a good deal. But it has not been easy. I really don't envy her.
Even with all you can say about Ron he loves cats and had no trouble giving me money for cab fare and Baby Girl's grooming.
Don’t do that. He doesn’t get points for loving cats and giving you cab fare. He sexually, verbally, mentally, physically and emotionally abuses/abused you. Who cares about these two features.
As bad as he can be - and it can be terrible - he is still BETTER than having to ask them for anything.
Ron is a treat compared to that. I will share more after my Dad passes; there is more.
Dad never touched me like that but when I went down an abuse checklist with a therapist I hit on everything but that. That is really all I can say at this point.
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