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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you talk to other Uber drivers? (You mentioned female drivers saying how male pax treat them..) is there a company driver chat room on the app or some such?

What's the single most memorable ride you've had? 
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GroupMe, facebook, uberpeople DC, reddit.com/r/uberdrivers, zello   All of these places are filled with complaints from drivers...95% of them about low pay.  Just about anything imaginable is discussed in the remaining 5%....a lot of strategy talks and bad ride stories.   Like I said, it's beneath some people to hustle, they want it the easy way.  From my standpoint, I feel the rates in DC could easily go up 40% and passengers wouldn't notice.  Rates have fell from $2.50/mile in early 2014 to about $1.00/mile today.  Back when it was $2.50/mile, weekends were like PRINTING MONEY because the number of drivers was a tenth of what it is now.  And while I'm on it, driver turnover is HUGE!  Around 60% over every six months.  Uber burns thru drivers constantly.

I pick up a 20-something girl in Merrifield at 7pm on a Friday.  She's stone cold sober and says we're on the way Echostage to see Skrillex, but have to pick up her friend first at a DC happy hour.  On I-66 at Ballston, the calls start....I hear "I'M DRUNK!!!!!  WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!?"   Friend is beyond gone.  Has no clue where she is.  Has ingested 'shrooms and "some pills".  People were yelling at her.  She's "somewhere around L Street".  I honestly do believe her guardian angel sent me specifically as her uber driver that day, because no driver ever would have done this.  We criss-crossed L Street for 10 minutes.  She was so wasted she couldn't even read the street signs.  I learned a long time ago the best way to get where someone is is to have them say any business name they see.  So when we got her back on the phone she says "Art of Shaving" and there we find her on L & Connecticut.  She's been crying and has lost a shoe.  The meter on this ride is still rolling.  She has a 5-minute breather and a sip of water, then she's all, "let's go see Skrillex!"  I'm like "really?" Friend gives the ok, so off we go.  TWO BLOCKS on down L Street, here it comes "I'M SICK!!!"  I had heavy-duty barf bags in the car and given her friend one ahead of time.  This girl got the first heave in the bag, I got the car stopped, and then she got the rest all nicely out of the car and onto the sidewalk of a church. "Alright, feel better?" "Yep!" "OK, let's go."  I go down the street to take them back to Merrifield, wasted friend freaks out and was dead-set still on Skrillex, sober friend absolutely no way.  She is still holding her friend's bag of puke at this point and we are now on 66-W.  Lush did a nice job filling the rest of the bag up to the brim between there and Glebe Rd where I could drop off the bag in a gas station garbage can and then hop back on the highway.  I got them home to Merrifield, total=$91.00 for an hour and a half-ride.    EVERYDAY is different.[/quote]

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