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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought I was close to allowing uber for my 15yo.  But last week a friend's young adult daughter had a very troubling experience.  The driver insisted she sist in the front, said he wouldn't charge her, and kissed her right off the bat with no warning or explanation.  She shrunk away and phoned a male friend and told him what was happening to pass the time on the short drive.  The driver said hey, he would not have done that if he had known she had a boyfriend (like that matters).  He delivered her to her destination and offered to drive her home later.  She said no but he texted her at 4:00am (he had her cell number bc there was a snafu in the original booking or something) asking where she was and if she needed a ride.  She was afraid to go back to the house where he had picked her up.   He probably was lurking there at 4:00am.  I would go with Red Top or some other reputable cab company instead.  [/quote]

NP. I know of two other teen girls/young adult women in our area who had similar experiences--not kisses but overly inquisitive and intrusive drivers who hit on them, basically. This is why my teen daughter will not be using these services, period. I arrange life so we drive her or she rides with adults we know well enough to carpool with them. OP, I get your situation, but I would pay a parent I know to carpool or drive my kid before I would use Uber, Lyft etc. No, we're not quaking, frightened helicopter parents; we just don't see the sense in putting a teen alone in a car with a stranger. [/quote]

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