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Uber Adventure 1

As I just started driving for Uber, I decided that another good time to do some driving is to get my feet wet on a weeknight with an event.  There was a professional basketball game in the city, one of the events that will prompt many a rider customer.  So I figured I would head into the city once again and see where the Uber app took me.  After a quick pit stop in Tremont killing a bit of time before the game ended, once again, you never know where or how this app is going to apply to you or where you will go but must remember to embrace every situation, keep a certain distance between you and the other person, and go forth. Surprisingly on this night, I did not end up picking up a lot of people I was taking from the game (home, a hotel, a bar, etc.).  Instead I gave two rides to those who attended the game, another few in between bars, and then over to one of my city's establishments in the rock community, The Agora Theater.  Since when do attendees of rock ...

Driving - Part 1

People had been telling me to do it for a while, it was a way of making extra money.  And we all certainly need money in this day and age, quite honestly ANYTHING to make a buck.  I was a bit wary about it, but then realize it was really nothing.  We all were wary with the advent of the Internet and the prospect of meeting people whose last name you don't even know for business or personal reasons.  Like everything else with changes, we get past them and we adapt to these changes and it becomes commonplace.  We seem to escalate in terms of these changes, when at first meeting someone for said business or personal reasons in public places to that of bringing them into our homes.  The next step is to provide something for others that we wouldn't otherwise.  This is a range of things, sordid and not so sordid.  Still, there will always be the feeling of caution, a natural reaction, feeling unsure about what is or isn't about to happen.  It was w...