That’s very true, but I think we have, or most of us do have, some kind of internal alarm that warns us when something is off. I don’t know that we still have that same thing when it’s impersonal and not face to face.

I thought it sounds exactly like someone who has had a few drinks would ask. People with a few drinks in them generally think they’re much funnier than they actually are.

I don’t buy “Derek’s” story. I get the sense he just wants his own 15 minutes of fame. The “are you sure” bit in particular doesn’t pass the smell test. At that point, there was no reason to suspect it was an Uber driver, as that information hadn’t spread yet. Even if one (for some reason) decided to joke about a mass…

Not to be skeptic, but I’m pretty sure at this point he’s a suspect, not a confirmed killer. It would strike me as particularly strange behavior to be a mass murderer on a killing spree while still picking up passengers as an outlaw cab driver. Who knows, maybe he thought that was the perfect alibi, but until he’s…

Man if I thought I *might* be catching a ride from a serial shooter, and that I could probably make it to my destination fine, I’d stfu with any and all questions.

In layman terms, they are probably interchangeable.