The first run of the night started innocently enough. Back to an apartment complex that I had been to previously. Arriving at the correct building, I pulled into the circle drive and contacted my passenger. I was then told that I would be picking up a member of the caller's family not the actual caller. I, then began...The Wait. Right then and there that should have been my first clue that the ride would not go well.
Finally, my passenger showed up! I greeted them, informed them of the cell phone chargers available for their use and asked: " Do you prefer to tell me the route or would you like me to use GPS?". As to the passenger didn't know how to get to the destination, GPS was the answer. Off we go.
Luckily, this passenger didn't speak English well but unfortunately for me, she began listening to a game show with very annoying tinny music that was on loop. Oh...the humanity! I couldn't understand what was being said because it was in another language which was alright but I would have liked for her to turned down the volume some. I didn't ask her to for fear of coming across as being rude. In hindsight, that fear was all for naught!
That should have been the second sign.
Halfway through, the trip, my passenger begins to question the route that I was talking. Mind you, she did say use GPS. Not being familiar with the place I was driving her to, I wasn't sure if was headed in the right direction, myself. After hearing her continually asking about why we going this way, she makes a phone call and tells the person on the other end or I guess she tells them that I don't know where I was going. I don't know what she was saying because she was speaking in her native tongue which I have no cognisance of! Mind you whilst this is going on, she keeps telling me: "I don't care, use GPS."! I ask her more than once if she wanted to give me directions. She declines due to the fact she didn't know how to get there. I'm starting to get frustrated but try to keep calm. She tells me to talk the man on the phone who then proceeds to find out my exact location and then tells me how to get to her destination. When it's all said and done, I wanted the ride to be over and her out of my car. I drop her off and then I thought: " Oh great! Now, I have to rate her!". Worst part was, she wasn't the caller who the rating would be attributed to! I wanted to be fair to the caller and gave him a five star rating.
Come to find out I was reported by them for bad city knowledge which dropped my ratings below five stars! Gee thanks so much! ⬅️ SARCASM In actualIty ,their rating should have been less then five stars. I know this now! I vowed to myself if their name pops up on my screen ever again, I'm going let that one pass!
Chalk that one up to experience and move on.
Sidenote: I have been informed by Uber to use GPS when in times when it's necessary. This was one of those times.
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