2017 Driving

I drove New Years Eve Day from 4am to 7:30ish.  Yesterday and the day before were good days for business.  Long days, but worth it.  Don't deal with the night time surge for drunks.  Just don't have it in me to jeopardize my vehicle.  Back out this morning at about 5:30 am to cash in on the aftermath and get people back to where they belong.

A lot of "I'm not sure where I am, who I went home with or I really never should have drank that last drink".   The "I don't know where I am for sure, GPS says I am here, but I know where I need to be", folks were thick this morning.  

No longer do we refer to the walk of shame, it is now the Uber of Shame.  Pretty funny stuff.  Yesterday morning started off with observing a guy passed out with his foot on the brake at the local McDonalds.  It wasn't even open yet and the staff could not wake him.  Finally a big cook came out and shook the car hard.  The cook saw me sitting in the lot across the way and through up his hands in dismay.  I pulled over there.  The guy came too, drove the next window after he was told they were closed.  Stopped, foot on brake and passed out again.  He came too and drove off for the main road.  He had no business driving, I followed him to the next stop light where he came to rest at a concrete divider separating the go straight lane from the right turn lane.  Passed out yet again with foot on brake.  I called 911.   Cop must have been really close cause he pulled up in short order.  Before it was done there were like 5 local cops and a State Trooper.  Dude went to jail.

A couple of rides later was to the county jail to pick up a guy that had been arrested for DUI.  He told me that he usually uses Uber/Lyft, but he picked up a girl and wanted to impress her and drive her to his house.  Instead, he got stopped, arrested and the girl had to call an Uber to pick her up to take her home.  Guys said he didn't know her name, but was pretty sure she threw away his number and he won't be seeing her again.

This morning was a lot of delivering former drunks to their cars.  That peaked and I called it an early Sunday.

2017 is now here and it is time to start working on getting my paperwork in order for Tax Season.  UGH!