Day 4, Night (Surge: None)

I know, I know, I haven't posted in a while, sorry, it's hard to post while driving!

On the evening of the Pride Parade, I went out again for a couple of hours more after dinner. My first pickup was on Huntington Ave, and we went out to the Whole Foods in Brighton. A quiet trip, nothing exciting to report.

Trip 1 earnings: $5.19

I got another request pretty quickly in Brighton, and picked up a young professional who was heading down to Legal Harborside in the Seaport District. We chatted a bit about Uber - I gather he has some friends who drive for Uber and/or Lyft, somewhat similarly to my reasoning. He works in the seaport district for a financial firm, and was talking about how he was thinking about moving to Quincy to have a better commute than from Brighton. (I'm not actually sure that's a lot better, but he did mention his firm has an office in Quincy as well so maybe he meant switching there too.)

Pleasant ride, good conversation, this is what I'm doing this for!

Trip 2 earnings: $11.41

Got another pretty quick request (I love it when that happens), just down the road in front of Morton's Steakhouse. At least, that's what the Uber app claimed... I pulled up and waited a couple of minutes, and as I was getting ready to call, I got a call from the rider.  They asked if I was near the red awning, which confused me, because as I looked around there were no awnings in sight. I tried to describe where I was, and it became clear that we were nowhere near each other.

They mentioned they were near Harpoon, and I immediately realized which red awning they meant - they were at the Harpoon Brewery. Thankfully it's only a very short distance from where I was, so I told them I'd be right there, and apologized for the mix-up. They were very gracious about it, and I quickly got down to Harpoon and picked up a couple, heading to Charlestown. They were nice, we chatted a little bit, but as is often the case with couples, they talked amongst themselves mostly, which is also fine.

The drop-off location was a bit weird, along one of the feeder/semi-big-roads along the edge of Charlestown, but they seemed happy, so I guess it was good.

Trip 3 earnings: $6.30

I kept heading north-ish for lack of a better idea, and relatively quickly got a ping for the Costco in Everett. Having been to that plaza once before to actually go to Costco, I dreaded it a bit, because it tends to be very busy. I hadn't really considered the time of night, though - I got there and was wicked confused at first because the parking lot was totally empty, it was dead! I pulled up out front though and there was my rider waiting - turns out she was one of the last employees out closing up for the night, which explains the emptiness.

We were off to Tony C's in Assembly Row, and had a nice quick trip, no fuss. I wished her a good night, and went on the prowl in Assembly Row.

Trip 4 earnings: $4.81

Yay, local ping in Assembly Row! Of course it turned out to be right BEHIND me, so I ended up driving a little loop (slowly, because things were pretty busy), and picked up a group of friends heading out to Tavern in the Square, in Cambridge. They were obviously on their way out for the evening, and spent much of the ride discussing who was and wasn't going to meet them, and also texting back and forth with various people trying to get them to come out.

It was a pleasant trip - they were happy, excited about going out, but not over the top obnoxious (I've had a couple of those now, you'll have to wait for more writeups though...), and I certainly had no complaints. Easy enough drop-off, and back online I went.

Trip 5 earnings: $6.74

I wandered Cambridge a bit, and got another request without too much waiting. Picked up my riders, a nice couple - his name was also Tim - and we were off to the races.

The couple was talking about the brewery they were going to, in Somerville as well as various other breweries they had been to, etc. When we actually got to the address, though, I wasn't sure the GPS had gotten it right, because it really just seemed like a dark street corner. They got a look down an alley though, and believed they saw the brewery, so I wished them luck, and they headed off.

I looked up the address later to try and see if I'd taken them to their deaths, and it turns out it was in fact legit, and down that alley - they were heading to Aeronaut Brewing Company. Some of those beers look tasty, I might need to head over there myself!

Trip 6 earnings: $3.92

With that I decided to call it a night. Overall quite a long day of driving, but it was a lot of fun.

Day 4 night trips: 6
Day 4 night earnings: $38.37
Day 4 total earnings: $182.14