Reflections: A Book

1st Weekend Driving LYFT

Friday night
1. Chianti - Black lady from Riverdale, cute short blond hair. Quick ride from apartment, only a little hard to find. Apartment pick ups can be the worse. Down the street to old Chuck-e-cheese outlet. Took her to DDs outlet.

. Amy around corner from airport. Did not see her (no pic) and call went straight to voicemail every time. Circled the block but ended up canceling the ride which hurt my acceptance rating a bit.

2. Chuck older guy whose car is in the shop. Quiet voice, back seat driver, awesome handlebar moustache. Smelled of stale smoke and his house but he was nice. Kept giving me errant details about different areas. Cool ride. Took him from one bar to another restaurant in Midtown

3. Brady and John - Couple of bros, not sloppy drunk but definitely feeling it. Brady was very talkative. Apparently he was about to get a girls number even after he insulted her, but John came up, pointed it out the girl wisely changed her mind
John was pretty quiet in the backseat. He was out celebrating his new marriage and baby girl.

4. Mary - Took her and a young girl literally around the block. She was in serious pain from an awesome workout the day before. I know the feeling.

5. James - Sweet guy, think he was gay, we gushed about our mutual love for Pink and Lady Gaga and even had a sing along to Backstreet Boys Back Here

I learned to believe in LYFTs GPS when trying to locate a client. Google maps will stop short of the actual address and of course sometimes the address isn't even visible, but LYFT has amazing pinpoint accuracy of where the person's standing.

Saturday
I did not sleep at all Friday night so I was up at 7 to get breakfast at Marietta Diner. Western omelette with sausage and tomatoes (extra tomatoes on the side were huge and beautiful but tasted awful) and LOTS of coffee!

1. Miguel and Jack - Picked up these 9th graders from a friends house. Miguel paid for Jacks ride first (little butt didn't say bye when I addressed him, he definitely had an attitude the whole ride, wonder what that was about). Waited for Miguel to start a second ride and we were off. Had very enjoyable conversation. He goes to the Caribbean every summer to sail. His granddad is a lobbyist that owns a horse farm. His dad is a lobbyist that's working on finally bringing a casino to Atlanta! He has two labs, chocolate and golden and his best subject is math. His teacher is annoyed at him because he just puts his name on quizzes since she replaces their quiz grades with their test grade, which he always Aces.
Doesn't know what he wants to do but knows he doesn't want to be a lobbyist. His mom works for Tesla! She was the top Sales Associate one year.
(Bruce Bower)

2. Ernesto and pals - 3 Mexicans from a BP, took them up a busy street to IHOP. Quick ride but stuck in my best learned line "Necisito practicar mi espanol MUCHO mas!"

3. Maria - slightly older lady going to work at Macy's. She was late so was going to just sneak in. Fun ride.

Went back to hotel, took a quick shower and got back on the road.

4. Laura (young professional, took to Brunch festival at Atlantic station)
I went to target and sat in a special needs cart while my phone charged a bit. Started trying to make it to Barnes and Noble
5. and 7. Destinee (twice, my first rideshare with Lee; took to work at Atlantic station)
6. Lee (Chinese boy with his GA Tech Biology teaching mom, caught in awful traffic due to St. Patrick parade)

Stayed at AS (first 2 hours parking are free!). Walked around, Hello Kitty food truck was out, Paddys day concert and Brunch fest was going on. Brunch fest was sold out so I went to Pig and the Pearl. Bartender was hustling entire time. Got crab cake appetizer, DELICIOUS! Got some eucalyptus shower gel and body cream.

10. Evan - Picked up at nice hotel/apt building to AMC near Cobb Center Galleria. Young black guy going to see Get Out, I raved about it of course. We gabbed about lack of imagination in black cinema. He's looking to invest in Uber and/or Lyft, like 10k type of investment! Suggested mint.com for free help with budget and Ameritrade for stocks.

Eventually made it to bookstore. Read through most of The Animators, really good. Phone charged to 88%!

11. Brandy and boyfriend (golden retriever puppy, free smart water when stopped at gas station for bf)
12. Brianna and bf (visiting from Jersey, picked up from same hotel Tony and I stayed at!, took to cousins house)