They expected her to humbly step aside when her uber came, when she saw the regal couple-to-be!
Yeah I hate that shit too. My guess is it's a variation of "2 people walking side by side on a sidewalk automaticallly have priority over a single" - wtf, no, walk in line if there's people coming.
Get a cane and you can really have fun. People will do the “I’m not moving anywhere” routine down the sidewalk right up until you get close enough for it to click that they’re about to body slam a disabled person. 10% still smack into you, but the 90% that dance out of the way are amusing.
I’ll move a little to avoid conflict but I’m 6’-5” and one of these days I’m just gunna stand there and DARE them to cause a fuss.
Same with the metro. My elbows are sticking out more and more walking off it like GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY I NEED TO LEAVE SO YOU CAN GET ON. One of these days, if I line up right in fromt of someone, I’m straight up gunna say “well, idiot, you gunna move out of the fucking way or what?”
If I don't have my kids with me, I do. I don't crash into them, but I stop when I get to them and make them go around. The lack of courtesy of some people needs to be challenged. It's mostly people in their early 20s in my experience, but I'll wait out whoever. Tired of this shit.
There's a trick that always works if they're looking at you, even if you're in a crowd.
You just have to look down and in front of you. Like looking at the ground where you're gonna take the next 2-3 steps. Never look at them.
You can even use this while zigzagging in a crowd of people that are all going the opposite direction to you, as long as they can see you looking at the ground, they'll move.
They must think you're not paying attention or something and since they don't want to bump into you, and you're always telegraphing where you'll go, they always move.
What works for me is I just look straight ahead and walk confidently in a straight line (on my section of path) and 99% of them time they'll shift over. If they don't think you're going to move then they will, and it's only fair. If you comply before you even get near them then they obviously aren't going to move.
Just stand still (if there aren’t people behind you). They’ll figure it out and you don’t run the risk of losing your balance by a stray hip check while midstep. Plus it’s mildly annoying
we had some trouble one morning when I was too tired to drive trying to get the dog to the vet. we kept ordering pet Ubers and the drivers kept showing up and canceling when they saw we had the dog. they kept saying they just saw the better rate and didn't realize it was because we had a dog with us. except it took like 10 minutes each time we had to try and get a new driver and we were trying to make it to the appointment on time at risk of them canceling the appointment and charging us a fee. is Uber going to reimburse me for the missed appointment fee? it didn't come to that in the end but it was very stressful.
Next time when the Uber accepts the ride, hit the message button and tell em "Hi, I'M CARRYING A DOG", at least they can cancel the ride right then and there instead of driving over to you to cancel.
It's silly but drivers can be all sorts of clueless
I've driven for Uber before, the driver app is buggy as all hell and I persinally refuse to do pet trips as they are so few and far between in my area that it really only hurts me if I want to make a steady income doing normal rides for the day. I frequently will open the app to see it randomly will toggle on pet rides and package deliveries despite me never trying to sign up for those services. The wrost part is as a driver, you have 10 seconds WHILE driving to accept of or deny the request so the only thing I can safely quickly look at is the ammount I am being offered for the trip and the estimated trip distance to make sure that ammount is worth my time. Once you accept a ride, you can see 0 information about that ride until you drop off your current rider, once the first rider is out, the only information for the next trip uber gives you is the pick up location and the name of the account. It's put me in a lot of akward situations where someone ordered a pet ride and I show up and say they can't have thier pet to find out they did in fact pay for Uber pets but Uber decided I was a Pet and package driver that day as well despite again NEVER signing up for those additional services.I feel loke not enough people actually sign up to do those and Uber tries to trick the drivers into accepting those kind of rides and once they realize it was a pet ride they canceled. As bad as that was for you, I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if you were also experincing Ubers own issues with drivers first hand there.
The final time I ever called an Uber pool was when the driver picked up 4 people even though the passenger had indicated 3, and then expected me to squeeze into the backseat of a sedan with 3 other people. I basically became one with those people. Never again.
It's a cheaper option, to allow your uber to "carpool", I.E. Your uber can pick up other passengers heading in the same direction to be more efficient, thus justifying your discount.
You can see why it'd be a jerk move to then get mad at the other passengers, who had no idea who they'd be pooling with, and how insane it would be to use it on the way to your wedding.
You're clearly joking, but for the unaware, "Uber" is a crowdsource taxi/rideshare service. An "Uber pool" is similar to a carpool. Where you share the vehicle with other riders. Making the "Uber" vehicle, aka, someone else's car, into what is essentially a bus.
I've heard rumors that Uber is even talking about having drivers run a set route.... Like buses do.
Trust me, any public transport would be great but even in liberal states we’re seeing large fund cuts. The public bus stop 5 min from my house that went straight to the tram that goes downtown is now a 30 min walk that goes to a diff tram station that goes to my regular tram station which goes downtown. 1.5 hours to go 15 miles, I’ll uber. Or in summer months I’ll ride my bike to the close tram.
Hey, have you heard of Strong Towns? They're an activist group that's largely focused on helping people influence local policy to build better, human-focused cities with more housing, more opportunities, and fewer cars. I'm working with them to try and make my city better, and while I can't say it's easy, I can say it feels like a worthwhile use of my time and efforts.