I drove into town at about 5:20pm, parked, and got all set up with new bluetooth earpiece and magnetic phone mount.
I logged into my account and eagerly awaited my first ride request.
10 minutes later I decided to plug my device in for charging. While I was plugging it in, an alert sounded in my earpiece and it took me a moment to realize that it didn't have anything to do with the charger. It was ride request!
The request was from 8km away and a rider with a 4.7 rating. While I was thinking about accepting the ride, the request stopped. I took too long.
The second request came another 10 minutes later. From 22km aways! I quickly rejected the request.
I started to look through the app and noticed my acceptance rating was 0%. Oh, oh! I had better accept the next request.
Pizza was not far away, and I haven't eaten Pizza in months. Pizza!
I drove to the Pizza place with the Uber app still on. No pings. I turned the app off and got some pizza and then had a social phone chat.
When I turned the app back on, I told myself I'd give it 10 minutes before shutting down and driving home. It was 7:10pm.
PING a ride request!
18km south. I accepted. Got there by 7:30pm. First Uber drive and my acceptance rating was at 33% (that is pretty bad, considering Uber perfers an acceptance rating of over 80%).
3 passengers with strong body odour got into my car. They turned the radio up loud. Then asked to use my USB port so they could listen to their music. Unfortunately I didn't have a cable for IPhone. I secretly wondered if they would rate me lower.
They asked me if they could use my Bluetooth, wanting to listen to their music.
"Sure" I heard myself reply, secretly hoping it wouldn't interupt my navigation by earpiece. It didn't work out and we all ended up listening to my favorite 80's radio station.
It was a fairly long run that paid about $30. When they got out of my car I immediately turned the volume down, and opened all windows to air out. LOL
I started driving in the direction 'home'; an hour away. Got home at 9pm and went to bed.
I AM a part-time Uber driver!
