12/19/2025
"Go Ubering in the bad weather," they said.
"It'll be good money!" they said.
Bruh...
I braved the snow, ice, and negative temps in my All-Wheel-Drive vehicle to drive some people around... because the demand was NUTS.
First ride... I got stuck in the deep snow of the Sonic parking lot that hadn't been plowed. I had to do the reverse-forward-reverse-forward thing and finally got out after about a minute.
Another ride... drove a lady two blocks because she didn't want to walk (I don't blame her one bit!) and she tipped me $20 cash. This was my only tip of the night.
Another ride... I was taking a rider to the liquor store and back, and we saw a van stuck in the snow of the liquor store parking lot. We both jumped out of my car and each got on one side of the back of the van to push whenever he went forward. We got him out.
Another ride... I was on a side road going maybe 5mph and came to a stop sign... and didn't stop. Not because I didn't try, but because it was so icy that even at that speed, my car Did. Not. Stop. Thankfully, my rider totally understood that I wasn't actively trying to kill us.
I declined four trips to/from the airport, because I didn't know what those roads were like out that way, and it was 20 minutes to the airport... for $8 - $10 fares. I don't think so, Tim.
I also declined a trip to Fargo (over an hour away) for a $50 fare. Yeah... no way, JosΓ©.
I finally had enough and decided to go home... and the Uber app glitched and wouldn't effing let me go offline! Rides kept popping up and I had to keep declining while frantically trying to go offline, met with an error every time, causing my Acceptance Rate to tank. I finally shut off my phone altogether and just went home.
I walked in the door, red-faced and exhausted, and said to JJ, "That was SO not worth sixty bucks."