Staying up late

We had to stay up late tonight so Liz could be on a live radio show at midnight, so I did a bit of a later evening than usual. Couple of interesting groups...

UberXL Group

My nightmare of UberXL classification came true on my first trip of the night - it was a group of six heading from Copley to Somerville, and it wasn't like the UberXL group I had early on that was interested in piling in together. So, I ended up fumbling for a couple of minutes getting one of the rear seats flipped up. It was definitely not optimal, and I'll definitely be paying more attention to ride types going forward, and probably trying to bug Uber again to see if I can get un-UberXL-classified. The extra money is great but I don't want to get bad ratings (and it would have been totally fair for this group to give me a bad rating, it was not the type of experience I wanted to provide).

It went okay, I was apologetic, they seemed more amused than annoyed, but I still felt bad. I did put my car back in order in the parking lot of the hotel where I dropped them off, because I had turned it into a mess.

Trip details: 16m 40s duration, 3.90 miles, $17.00 payout

North End Crowd

Amusingly my next trip could/should have been an UberX trip. I picked up a group of 5 in the North End, but they had requested UberX, not UberXL, so I didn't feel particularly bad about not offering to flip the seat again. They also didn't ask - they had definitely been having a good time. Their destination entered was the Cactus Club, which I had to sadly inform them was no longer open (and in fact hasn't been for a while - apparently Uber needs to update their place database), but they were just heading to the Boylston St area for more drinking, so it wasn't a big deal.

The ride was definitely boisterous - they started out asking to crank some tunes, and we rocked out much of the way to Boylston St. There was also much talking about "dick fingers" - apparently they had been playing Cards Against Humanity the previous night, and that came up, and they've been obsessed ever since. It was an amusing ride, including one of the back seat passengers walking their "dick fingers" up my neck. They were all pretty harmless and having a good time, so I had no problem with it.

Trip details: 15m 42s (loud) duration, 3.52 miles, $9.98 payout

No other super interesting trips to report tonight, just a few trips around downtown, Southie, and Cambridge. A decent evening. Now it's time to go to the radio station!

Total trips: 6
Total earnings: $57.95
Current rating: 4.89