Day 6, Night Driving Part 1 (Surge: Low)

A few weeks back, I was awake after a Red Sox night game and decided to give the late night / closing time hours a try. This is the last of my "details about all of the rides" posts (and it's out of sequence with more recent stuff), but it's got some exciting ones in it. Well, it'll probably be multiple posts, we'll see.

I picked up my first ride of the night on Huntington Ave in Boston, around 11:15pm, heading out to Somerville. This was a very nice surge, but overall a pretty quiet ride. Perhaps it was lulling me into a false sense of security...

Trip 1 earnings: $22.06

I headed back towards Boston because that seemed the likliest to have activity - no hits on the way there made me sad, but eventually I got a quick ride from Wally's Jazz Cafe to The Gallows - all in the South End, nothing exciting, again.

Trip 2 earnings: $3.75

But now it was after midnight, so the exciting started... my next ping was at Jacque's Cabaret - of course, I didn't realize that when I accepted it. But it became clear enough when I got there, from the crowd outside. And then in piled the ladies... four ladies in varying states of intoxication. They were heading over to the Cambridgeside area - okay, no problem.

Well, it was the longest 10.5 minute ride ever. :) Turns out they were a bachelorette party from New Jersey, and boy did they hit the stereotypical New Jersey accent/attitude/volume when drunk. The bride-to-be was probably the most drunk of them all, and kept addressing me as "TIMOTHY" (loudly, imagine the caps talking for real) the whole trip.

They spent much of the trip asking random questions, talking about all the ludicrous bachelorette things they were doing, inviting me back to their "afterparty" (with the more sober ones rebuking and basically retracting the invitation - don't worry Liz, I declined regardless of the number of offers :)), and discussing the show at Jacque's, and just what are drag queens, transvestites, etc. It was... entertaining. And noisy. But thankfully otherwise uneventful. A harmless example of drunken hilarity.

Trip 3 earnings: $6.11 (hardly enough for the earplugs I really needed!)

Trip 4 wasn't particularly noteworthy, a couple going from Kendall Square area to the Fenway.

Trip 4 earnings: $5.67

While I was trolling for my next trip, heading out towards Brookline because it seemed likely there'd be some college kids still going out or something (in retrospect I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense), at one point I opened up the Uber passenger app, to see how many other Ubers were around me... and literally every car I could see around me, on both sides of the road, appeared to be an Uber. Suffice to say that was my signal to turn around and get out of that hell of Ubers.

I eventually got a pick-up while still in Brookline, and they headed back where I'd started before, Kendall Square area. Again nothing exciting (aka I don't even remember any details now because I didn't write any down).

Trip 5 earnings: $7.31

I think that's enough for this post - the night wrapped up with a couple of UberPOOL trips, which can maybe fill their own post. At least, I need to pad my post count, right? ;)