A few more observations from the last 10 weeks.

When waiting for a ride stand in the middle of the driveway so we can’t pull in to pick you up. We LOVE that.

Suggestion for platforms: Program in a 15 second lag after rejecting a ride. If I’m trying to go off line and get a gig, I hit reject but often before I can log off you give me another, and another and another. This hoses my stats artificially.

Another suggestion: allow those of us doing Uber Eats to opt out of certain locations. Starbucks, McDonalds and Popeyes are ALWAYS slow and I reject them out of hand. Would be nice if I could just opt out of THOSE.

Lyft riders seem to believe that we don’t really exist until they request a ride. We then materialize outside their door after a random number of minutes. If they don’t show up we de-materialize back into dust.

Uber is now requiring a pic verifying that I’m wearing a mask. Needless to say it’s pretty easily fooled. AND they want us to narc on passengers who aren’t participating in the virtue signaling. I won’t do it. But I’ve heard tales of drivers who have wrapped their cars in plastic wrap and installed plexiglass shields. We each have our own risk tolerance, but some folks are just whackadoodle.

Lyft – Uber pays us for remote pickups. Under the circumstances you should too. Nobody likes driving 20 minutes for a $3 fare. That’s why I’m refusing/cancelling so many of your rides.

It’s been a good ten weeks. I usually start between 9-10 am. I usually hit my daily target by 5 or 6. A few days I’ve gone until 7 or 8 and I’m occasionally done by 4. Still loving the flexibility. Friends have occasionally referred to me as Travis Bickle but I’m feeling a little more like Ernest Borgnine in Escape From New York.