Payment/ride summary: July 25-31

The week of July 25-31 I tried going all Lyft. "All" didn't turn out to be all that much time, but it sure did turn out to be a big difference in tips. In a single week of Lyft driving I got more in tips than I've ever gotten with Uber, I think.

To be fair, that number isn't quite right though, because I managed to screw up on my very first Lyft ride and hit the drop off rider button as soon as I'd picked the rider up. Doh! I still took them to their destination, and they were very understanding and offered to just use a custom tip amount to bring the fare up to what their app had estimated. I didn't know what else to do, since them re-requesting would cost them the base trip amount again, so we did that, even though I'm pretty sure it's not kosher. PS Lyft: if you're reading this and want to yell at me, please get in touch rather than just killing my account, I'd be happy to make it right and know this isn't the right way to do things. :)

Total rides: 10, total earnings $80.57, including $6 of "real" tips, $4 of tolls. 4 hours 25 minutes online.

Interesting thing I learned after saying "hey, what?" at the toll amounts - Lyft only pays out the "in state" toll amounts, and EZPass MA has a discounted rate for some of the Boston area tolls, only if you have an in-state EZPass, which I wasn't aware of. So my NH EZPass was costing me where I'm using it most, and discounting on NH tolls I almost never use - whoops. I've since fixed that glitch, since MA is on real EZPass now and has no up-front fee, unlike the old evil FastLane system. Now I pocket a little bit on Uber's toll reimbursement, and don't lose out on Lyft's.