I’ll pass on the communism part, thank you very much.

What kind of weather or place is so bad that you can’t be outside for a half hour? Are you at a bar in Antarctica? Is there fire raining down from the sky ? I’m sorry, but if you didn’t bring your coat because you didn’t think you’d need it, that’s not an issue of “you can’t wait outside”, that’s an issue of “you…

I never said to close the app. Waiting doesn’t mean closing anything. It means waiting. And it DOES drop once the peak demand drops. I’ve done this a dozen times & waiting for a price that I’m good with always seems to work and takes no longer than 30 minutes.

I don’t disagree that that’s absurd, but I also don’t support capping. Because that’s where you just pop up the Lyft app & check there. Or a cab stand. Competition is good. And if everyone is on surge pricing or whatever their equivalent is? Wait. Because unless they’re colluding (illegal) on price fixing, then…

It does. User obviously didn’t care until they got buyers remorse after already getting the service. Or was somehow dumb enough to think that going 10x as far as originally quoted wasn’t going to cost ~10x the price.

Solution: Wait and try again. You can get it fast. Or you can get it cheap. But unless you’re the only one that wants it at that exact moment, you can’t get it fast & cheap. I’ve waited at the bar an extra 1/2 hour from the time I was originally going to get an Uber because I saw that the surge was up to like 3.1x. I…

I’m sorry, but if you can’t do the basic math of “this is the base price & it’s going to cost almost 8x as much as this”, then too bad. This is 2nd grade math.

In all my times taking Uber, I always knew the exact dollar amount that I’d be paying at the time I booked my ride. However, I’ve never changed my destination or added a destination, so maybe that’s where the surge charging kicked in. But unless the company just didn’t tell her the surge pricing now applied, I’ve got…

Sure, let’s just ignore how math works & understand that not all goods or services are worth a “living wage”.

There’s still some MkIII Jettas around. I’ve considered buying one or 2 of those I’ve found to go with my MKV Golf. But I always go back & forth between the MKIII Jetta & the MKI GTI

This is a quandary that I had never considered before & I am now perplexed by it.

Was that Mercedes that plowed into the sign powered by vanilla ice cream or milk or some shit? Cause all I saw was white fluid dripping out of the whole bottom of that car & I was so fucking confused on what the hell it was. Like, that’s not oil or coolant or brake fluid or any fluid I have ever seen that is used in…

This reminds me of a friend that many many years ago, while driving down the freeway and throwing a rod right thru the side of his engine block, and the engine temperature skyrocketing, his thought was “I will drive faster & it will make the engine cooler because air cools the engine block & going faster makes more…

I have 2. Both are from my Jeep days. 1) skunk rooting around in my buddy’s trash cans next to my parked car that no amount of annoying would make it go away. Sound. Light. Nothing. Had to dive thru the passenger side window to get into the Jeep. 2) driving one day, I saw weather ahead. Pondered it for a moment &…

Hot take: The tire is kinda fucked no matter what so who gives a shit? But since we apparently have to take sides here, I’m going with “your tire was already dead, lady. Move the fuck on”

The local ride-shares are nothing but a jitney with a smartphone app.

You’d think that at this point, people would realize “hey, I can’t take my nail clippers, this cigar torch or a pocket knife in my carry-on. I’m betting I can’t take my handgun”. Cause common sense probably dictates that. More people should use common sense.

** that’s a BAD return on investment... fucking typos.

Love it.

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