I broke even last night! Ugh I’m so happy with myself because I was at -$370 after my medical bills and I drove for 7hrs last night and managed to reach my goal! I even surpassed it after tips were added so I ended up getting $385 working for lyft!

I feel like whew! Finally! I’m driving again tomorrow even though I wish I had driven tonight but my parents are getting annoyed I keep “going out with friends” even though I’m driving :P i don’t wanna tell them I drive for lyft because they don’t think someone with a degree should be doing that 😖🙄 and also because they say it’s unsafe and then they start to wonder where my money is going (and it’s literally all for student loans, credit cards, medical, car loan, and internet) but my paycheck is simply not enough 😭

I’ve set budgets and been so strict with my money but it’s almost impossible to save up. So driving for lyft gives me more security. Idc, I’ma keep driving and saving up so I can do what i want and feel stable.

I drove once more and it was a good night, sort of lol. So I start around 6pm and I’m driving around town praying for a ping and I wasn’t getting anything so I thought “should I just log off???” But I stuck with it and had to drive like 20min to finally get someone!

And then the guy I did pick up was like, “hey can you drop me off right here instead?” a minute into the ride and it was a block away from where I picked him up 😂😭. So I dropped him off and he still tipped me $3.00! Bless his kind soul!

The other drives were okay. There was a college basketball game going on so it was a shitshow getting around town and taking people to the game.

I got yelled at by a security after dropping someone off at the game who was in crutches and the security was like “no drop offs here unless it’s handicap!” And the passengers and I looked at him and in unison said “it is a handicap ride” and the security turned red but had to deal with 😂

It was too crazy and saturated, so I drove out north, letting the app decide where to go, but no one was asking for rides! So I stopped at a McDonald’s and ate because I hadn’t had anything but coffee all day :( and I spent like 15min just waiting and eating and I thought I was about to call it a night, when I get a ping from someone who was going 30min away from the pickup! Yaaasss! I got $27 in fares and the lady tipped me $5! Omg! At this point I’ve reached the $75 mark and I was about to go home, when another ping comes in!

I drove to pick up the girl and she was going west, like a 45min drive! at this point I was like “thank you lyft gods!” I’ve had unexpected health shit going on and paid $350 in medical expenses so I’m short this month and here I am getting long rides 😭🙏🏼 she was so cool and we were being total social justice warriors the whole time. I wish she would’ve sat in the front to talk more comfortably but it was still cool to talk to her.

She had ordered a shared so I picked up some passengers heading out the same way and made $45 with tips for the ride 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

So I’m back where I started but the basketball game is over and now it’s Thirsty Thursday which meant short rides and small fares from college kids :P I still didn’t stop though, I’m in this “one last ride mentality” and the rides just keep getting added to my queue.

I’m FINALLY about to call it a night when I get a ping from someone who is 1min away, so I’m like, fine, let’s just do this ONE LAST RIDE 😉 turns out the people I picked up are super cool and the guy went on hunger strikes to get the ethnic studies department established... so basically I was giving a ride to one of the guys who allowed me to get a degree IN ethnic studies in college 🤩 he also was a union activist, does all this cool political shit and I was STARSTRUCK! I was so amazed and giddy I turned right on a red arrow when I wasn’t supposed to on campus 😭😭😭

Naturally, a cop was there so I got pulled over 🤦🏻‍♀️😭 I was so embarrassed and told the passengers they could order a different lyft ride but they were so nice about it! The guy even said “can you give me his card if he gives it to you? I’ve been trying to unionize the campus police and I wanna look him up to see what he’s all about” LMAO!!! These people were so cool I wanted to tip THEM for being so nice about the whole ordeal.

Thankfully I didn’t get a ticket, and the passengers and I ended up exchanging business cards after the ride was over — I NEVER DO THIS! But they were so cool that idgaf and went with it.

Okay so I couldn’t drive on Friday night because i was stuck at work :( but i made it up on Saturday night!

So I had two events for Saturday, a going away party and a birthday party and i thought, “perfect! I can just turn the app on when I leave the last event” and that’s exactly what I did! At 1am, I got my first ride and since it was prime time, I started making good money 😁😁😁

I had back to back rides for most of the night, but then just when prime time was at its all time high (1:30am), i get pinged to pick these guys up and i have to take them basically close to the mountains :(

First, they couldn’t even find me, so I spent like 3min waiting for them and telling them to literally turn around because I could see them but they couldn’t see me 🙄

They were two weirdos lmao, nice, but weirdos. They told me their two other hot friends ditched them for a car full of topless girls and they were gonna go watch a movie 🤷🏻‍♀️ I was like, okie whatevs. And then one of the other guys was just talking nonesense and I just went along with it. He was like “my hair is so big I’m the next Gretchen Weiners!” (It was big lmao) and then his friend was like “bro, the only thing your hair is useful for is to mop, fucking mophead” and I was like 😟🤭😫😂

I dropped them off and by then it was 2 so I had missed prime time :(

Then I got a request from this one woman who was Mexican and from el DF and said norteño music was trash and I was like, bih! Because I’m from Chihuahua 😡

I drove till like 3:30 and then called it a night. I think from 3-5 it’s prime time again but for bartenders cause my last ride, I got good money, but they charge way less than when bars get let out.

I drove again tonight and made $60 in 3hrs! Woo-hoo! I was hoping for more but I’m gonna drive tomorrow in the afternoon before I have a meeting at 5. I’m hoping I can double the $60 and transfer it to my account so I can buy my friend who’s leaving for study abroad a nice gift!

I don’t have any interesting stories besides the couple who whispered the whole way to the restaurant 🤷🏻‍♀️ no clue why. I also had to pee really badly so after I dropped this guy off at a hotel, I ran inside and the concierge looked at me funny but I needed to go so bad.

I offered chocolate Reese’s hearts to my passengers and they all seemed so happy to get one, except the PhD aerospace engineer who said he hated chocolate 😂

I was gonna get roses to hand out but they’re all fucking expensive because of Valentines Day so that plan was canceled lmao

I drove for lyft tonight and I ended my night on a shitty note.

So everything was chill and fine. It was actually kinda slow, so I was like, “hey, if it’s this slow, I’m just gonna keep driver mode on and drive home. If I get anyone on the way to my house, I’ll accept the ride”

So there I am driving on the highway, when I get pinged, and I take the ride that’s 7 min away from where I’m at. I pick up this older guy and he’s cool and we were chatting away when he says to me, “can we stop by the liquor store?” And I’m like, “yeah no prob.” He was really cool and when I dropped him off he tipped me $10 for a $9 ride. SWEEEETTT!

Then I get pinged for another ride not too far away and it’s this biker couple who reeked of cigarette smoke and Im like, whatever i guess.

I greet them but they’re kinda cold and again, I’m like whatever. This shoulda been the second red flag I should’ve noticed but it was a 30min ride and I knew I was gonna get at least $20 for it. So there I go, driving normally, maybe I sped 5 over at one point to pass up all the shitty traffic. Maybe I also sped because their smell was nauseating.

I dropped them off at some biker party at a hotel without a goodbye response from them after I said “have a good night!” My car smelled so bad afterward I had to roll down the windows and spray febreeze to get the scent out. No luck :( I picked up another passenger and they told me to drop them off a mile into their ride. they told me my car stinked and they rather catch another lyft. WTF?! I had to call it a night so I didn’t make the money what I wanted to make.

Now, I just got an email from lyft telling me a passenger complained I was speeding and driving “recklessly” and they’re investigating — I guess they want my side of the story. I emailed them back like 5min ago and I’m waiting on a response, but I’m praying to god my account isn’t affected. Like wtf?!

I’m driving for lyft tonight. Such a weird fucking night. First I get the request and then the person takes forever to get to my vehicle and I’m about to mark him as a no-show but he runs out his house.

Pick this 20yo up and he’s like I need you to drive around right now and I’ll just pay you every time we get to a destination. So I said “okay”

So he gets in my car and starts making phone calls, asking for “Carlos” and then he’s like “hi I’m calling for Carlos, his grandpa hurt his back and he’s going into surgery and I need him to come with me” and I’m like wtf, as I’m driving to 7-11

And he keeps calling whoever he’s tryna contact and he’s like “please his grandpa is in the hospital in Denver and this is a family matter so I need you to let him go”

And the person on the phone is like “ok hold on I’m tryna cover his shift” and I’m like “oh we’re picking someone up from work!”

We get to 7-11 and he’s like hold on. I’ll pay you right now but I need you to stay with me. So I’m like cool, just pay me through the app.

We get a call from Carlos and he’s like “bruh my grandpa is in the hospital?!” And this guy, Sergio is like “yeah bro!” So we drive to McDonalds to pick up Carlos and these fools start laughing as soon as he gets in.

I guess he just wanted an excuse to leave work and this guy I originally picked up and him planned this. So right now I’m like $18 in and really confused. I thought they were legit gonna go to the hospital and I was gonna make bank taking them lmao.

So now I’m waiting for them to change so they can continue their night and I’m $18 richer on the lyft app and $15 in on tips. I guess they’re gonna keep tipping me when they make stops.

Idk if I should keep going or if I should drop them off when they get to a friends house.

Lol time for #LyftStories!

So it’s 5:22pm, I had just gotten done with a reiki workshop and I say “hey, I’m always in need of money, so let’s drive tonight”

I turn my app on and get a ride request almost immediately. I head over to pick up and this woman was telling me she hurt herself doing yoga but she was still gonna go out and hoe. she was gonna put some lidocaine once she got to her friends house in Denver and she used the rest of the 30 minutes left of the ride to take a nap. Her husband was in the back wearing some weird ass costume so I just kept to myself.

I dropped them off and got a request from someone with a real interesting name. I head over and it’s a group of three black men who were nice but the first thing they said was “hey mami how are you? And “thanks for picking us up shawty” and i was like, cool, okay, men of color are better than gringos.

I take them to the mall and omg, I thought D.C lingo was hard for me to decipher but Atlanta lingo is just as hard if not worse! 😣 the whole time I was like “what? What did you say?” and the only thing one of them managed to say perfectly was “you got a boyfriend?” 🙄🙄🙄

Me: “no”

Him: “you married”

(I always say I am married bc this is the fifth time I’ve been asked about my marital status)

Me: “yes”

Him: “oh yeah?”

Me: “yeah. Wanna see the ring?” (I wear one of my mom’s rings to keep men away from me in general and this was the perfect time to use it)

Him: “yeah lemme see”

(Show him the ring at a stoplight. He makes a face)

Him: “so you got kids?”

Me: no. Not for me

And the rest of the ride is them talking and talking at me and me being the hard of hearing hoe I am struggled to keep up.

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Other interesting lyft pick up was more of me driving around in circles tryna find some stupid bar. The people were nice and gave me a $2 tip. Idk what i did to deserve it bc i wasted like 5 min tryna figure out streets.

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One lyft was at a Walmart and this is really important y’all: PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE keep in mind it’s against lyft policy to take a child without a car seat! The only reason I broke the rules tonight was bc the mom was a WOC and she just looked done with the night. I told her some lyft drivers aren’t as lenient as I was and to make sure to not ask for lyft w/o a car seat. I know she was annoyed with me but I rather her be mad than have me get in trouble.

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Remember those guys I picked up from Atlanta? Well I picked them up again (minus mister I wanna know if you’re married) but this time they had two beautiful women with them so I was like ayyyy! The guy was like “believe it or not, you picked me up earlier” and I was like “I know, funny huh?” But who can forget a name like Quintaviax???

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I met a guy who would basically be perfect for me if he didn’t have a girlfriend 😂😂😂 we basically gushed about our cats and showed each other pictures of them at every stoplight which ended up being magical bc I loved his cat Wes and he loved Tigre 😂😩

He was like “please just bring him with you on every ride” and I was like 😭😭😭 I wish!!!!

When I dropped him off, he had this goofy smile on him and was like “have a good night! I enjoyed this ride so much!”