I had the wildest Lyft ride of my life last night.
I accepted a $20 reservation for a passenger named David. When I pulled up to the pickup spot, a young woman was waiting there instead. She asked if I was picking up David, and I said yes. Without saying anything else, she just got in the car.
I asked her, “Are we good to go?”
She replied, “No, David is coming.”
So I said okay and waited.
About three minutes later, David showed up. I greeted him with a “Hi,” but he didn’t say a word and just got in.
I started driving toward the drop-off. Around four minutes into the ride, the girl asked if I had a USB-C charger. I handed her one, and she plugged in her phone and placed it on the center armrest between the front seats.
Her phone had the “pre-red notification” preview option on, so text messages popped up on the screen without needing to unlock it.
A few minutes later, a text from someone named Matthew came through. David saw the message, and he immediately lost it. He started interrogating her: “Why is he texting you?”
She kept repeating, “He’s just trying to communicate with me, but I’m not entertaining him at all.”
While we were stopped at a red light (I was in the second lane), David suddenly flung the door open and jumped out of the car, leaving the door wide open. The girl immediately followed him, also leaving her door wide open. Now both front doors were flung open like wings in the middle of traffic at a red light.
I had to jump out, quickly close both doors, and get back in the car.
Meanwhile, David took off running. The girl chased after him in her high heels… and immediately ate shit. She fell hard on the ground.
I just sat there, looked at her on the floor, and thought to myself:
Yeah… you kind of deserved that.
Am I the asshole for blocking this customer after a Lyft ride? I picked up this young girl heading to the hospital. When I pulled up, she was standing on the opposite side of the road. It’s a quiet neighborhood street, not busy at all, but she refused to cross, so I had to make a U-turn just to get her.
I finally pick her up, we get to the hospital, and the GPS says we’re there. I tell her ‘We’ve arrived,’ and she just sits there saying ‘No.’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean no?’ She keeps repeating ‘No, no,’ and won’t get out or explain anything. I’m sitting there confused and getting frustrated because she’s not communicating at all.
Someone else request a ride for her so I call the person who requested. The lady on the phone starts telling me I’m in the wrong place. I’m like, ‘Ma’am, the app literally brought me here, this is the drop-off address. If it’s the wrong door, just tell me where to go!’ But she’s not giving me any directions, just repeating that I’m wrong. Meanwhile this girl is still in my car refusing to move.
Finally a guy grabs the phone and says, ‘It’s the back side of the building.’ I’m thinking, ‘Why couldn’t you just say that from the beginning?!’ The hospital is massive — the back entrance is three whole blocks away, same address. I drive her over, drop her off, and honestly… I was so annoyed by the whole thing that I blocked them from ever requesting me again.
Was I wrong for blocking them?”