Download or read book Rearview Mirror True Stories of Unusual Rides and Crazy Passengers from a Late Night Uber Driver written by Brian Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind The Curtain: What Your Rideshare Driver Really Sees At Night Will Shock You!Imagine what it would be like to pick up a total stranger late at night, and have no idea where you are going until after he climbed into your back seat? For the first time, you will get a private glimpse into the dark life of a rideshare driver in the San Francisco Bay Area, and understand how it feels to roll the dice in hopes that your next passenger is not trouble. In Rearview Mirror, Brian Dixon shares his true-life experiences with you, one rider at a time. From the funny, to the inspiring, to the shocking - nothing is held back. Over a five-year tenure, Brian experienced more human diversity in a week than most see in a lifetime: millionaire technology superstars, drugged-out street people, professional partiers, and dangerous criminals - all with a story to tell.What do you get when you mix one-part street savvy driver nicknamed "The Drivingfool" with two parts unpredictable and crazy riders? A fascinating but volatile cocktail of humanity. Find out what happens next...
Download or read book Uber Taxi Cab Confessions written by Joe Mahedy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UBER Taxi Cab Confessions is a whirlwind tour of true short stories viewed through the eyes of a part time Uber Driver. You will be a passenger on every ride, discovering the hottest bars and restaurants and the secret after hour clubs in Fairfield County as we pick up riders and take them to wherever they want to go. Your life changes once you turn ON the UBER App. The show begins as soon as a rider opens the door to your cab. You never know what personality you will have to have until you greet your passenger. You may need to be a weatherman offering the latest forecast, or act as a political analyst. Some times you will have to be the rider's personal shrink and other times a comedian or a imaginative story teller. I now have acquired multiple personalities to match each rider's M.O. I must be pretty good at that. I get a five star rating on almost every ride plus I get crazy good tips by agreeing with everything they say. Confessions is an Illustrated collection of what happens in the back seat of my Uber cab. Read about the two chefs cooking in the back seat. Or, the very intoxicated woman who leaves her dog in my cab. But one of the funniest stories is about the man who was so big, the backdoor had to be removed to get him out. The UBER concept is amazing. It's so much fun to be a driver. I have included a list of tips and suggestions for both Drivers and Riders that are also very amusing. So buckle your seat belt and read on."
Download or read book Uber After Midnight written by Robert Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about what its like to be a Uber driver? After being a driver for almost three years, here are the stories from the road, told by a Uber driver in Cincinnati, Ohio. Follow along as the author takes you with him on some of his most memorable Uber rides. At times funny, intense, and interesting, you will get a driver's perspective on what its like to be a driver for the biggest ridesharing company in the world, Uber.
Download or read book Confessions of a Late Night Uber Driver written by Matt Pridgen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HEY, UBER DRIVER! DO YOU THINK MY FRIEND SHOULD GO HOME WITH THIS GUY?" My rider blurted out the question without my prompting. I kept my mouth shut and my eyes on the road. "We just met him tonight...but he bought us hotdogs and drinks." Pop music from a local radio station played softly in the background as I began to process her statement. I AM A LATE NIGHT UBER DRIVER. Well, actually I'm a stay-at-home dad trying to earn a few extra bucks on the weekends. Driving the night shift in a college town, I was originally enticed by the surge fares and 2 a.m. bar rush, but I soon discovered something far more valuable than an extra boost of income. I found that the young people I drive around need more than just a safe ride home-they need to know that there is still hope in this crazy world. JOIN ME AS I SHARE MY TALES OF LATE NIGHTS on the Uber circuit-the good, the bad and the ugly. And stick around to discover the answer to the one question everyone always wants to know: "Has anyone ever puked in your car?"
Download or read book Buzz Ride written by P. M. White and published by Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Darkly Comedic Coming of (Middle) Age Adventure - Why would a financially-comfortable, fifty-something father of two-with a Mercedes-drive Uber late at night on the toughest streets of Chicago? Pat White (pseudonym), a financial advisor and business strategist, decided to go undercover to research how the disruptive technology of ridesharing affects commerce. Soon his business study warped into a study of humanity . . . and himself. This reserved Baby Boomer first had to face his fear of picking up strangers in his own car and driving them to unknown locations. Most were over-privileged, over-served Millennials in route to their next adrenaline rush or wherever they were crashing for the night. Some treated him like he was invisible--making out, arguing, discussing sex and drugs, and lying to lovers on the phone about their whereabouts as if no one else were in the car. Others wished him to partake in their partying or craved his counsel on the most intimate details of their lives. Still others were just looking to pick a fight. Rarer were the tired and the timid: those returning to family after working long hours with hopes of a brighter tomorrow, those fleeing abuse, and those just fleeing a thunderstorm. This summer experiment took White down roads he never imagined he would travel. Soon he found himself embracing danger, longing for the thrill of voyeuristic glimpses into private lives made public, and facing the depths of his shadow personality. Come along for the bumpy ride as this sharp-tongued observer shares the always wild, sometimes dark, often humorous, and surprisingly touching side of Chicago nightlife in the smart-phone generation. Hop into the Back of Patrick's Silver Benz and Buckle Up!
Download or read book Tfud written by Gary Bruno and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TFUD (TALES FROM an UBER DRIVER) is a hilarious collection of very short stories about life as an Uber driver. Experience the sometimes surprising, sometimes shocking, sometimes crazy, occasionally stammering, and almost always funny conversations that take place between Uber passengers and this Bucks County, PA part-time Uber driver.Names have been changed to protect the guilty so, fear not. If you read about yourself, your friends will never know. Just sit back and enjoy the ride!
Download or read book Tales from the Back Seat written by David George and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Back Seat is an inaEUR"depth study by an author who grew up on the island of Grenada, where opportunities were few and far apart, and his transformation to the American way of life once in the United States. It is a wellaEUR"thoughtaEUR"out nonfiction that would make you want to read it repeatedly. It is filled with moments of sadness and joy, as well as periods of disbelief and shame. As an Uber driver, the author gave a frightening colloquy of the risks and challenges of the job, as well as the mistrust and difficulties he faced daily with the city law enforcement, notably the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The author also took a critical look at the practices of Uber and how it has hurt his business and that of his fellow colleagues. Tales from the Back Seat makes good reading for everyone, but I expect the individuals between the age group of twenty to sixtyaEUR"five years of age to find it very interesting. They are the ones who most frequently use Uber and would be interested in knowing what their fellow riders are doing or saying. This book would change the readers' perception not only of New York City life but that of the drivers as well. Readers would be surprised to know that for many of us, driving is a means to an end. In short, the author took a noaEUR"holdsaEUR"barred approach in writing this manuscript. He hopes that its content would leave you with your mouths wide open, as though you are gasping for air. It is a pageaEUR"turner. However, you should make time to read and digest it. I would advise you not to read it while crossing the streets.
Download or read book Juicy Uber written by David N Marchese and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had an Uber or Lyft ride? Ever asked your driver about his or her crazy or steamy incidents. Of course, you have. I had these questions daily for the 3 years I drove for Uber. Now, Juicy Uber gives you the best of the best and the worst of the worst - all kinds of provocative activity and conversations, social and moral contradictions, insights about the riders and, of course, the nudity, drug and sexual exploits (back seat 3soms, front seat stripping, etc.) that make up the juicy, crazy and steamy stories of the rides and riders I experienced. They were real happenings, in real time, in real voices by real riders sourced from an unadulterated daily Journal of 6,000+ rides and 12,000+ passengers over those 3 years. As the author or should I say narrator, commentator and social observer, my involvement here has resulted in controversial observations, insights and conclusions which reflect provocative changes in society. You probably have heard the expression, 'the new normal'. Well, much of Juicy Uber shows that the 'new normal' standards and values are a lot different than the 'old normal'. And, that's something all of us should at least understand if not respect, especially where changes in gender identification and social and sexual trends among Gen Z and Millennials come into play. You might call it the 'new abnormal'!
Download or read book The Life of an Uber Driver written by Danny B and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life Of An Uber Driver is a ride (book) you won't want to miss. This book is an all access, all inclusive shared experience into an array of personalities and walks of life that enter an Uber ride. From your Grandpa to the boardroom executive, to the drunk late Friday night texts, to the sappy love stories, to the strippers and everything in between, you'll never guess what's coming next. The Author is just like you, living and breathing on this great planet we call Earth. The hope of the Author is that you read The Life Of An Uber Driver without knowing any further information about them. Instead, without any pre-conceived notions of them or the passengers, that you get to know everyone intimately. You might even find yourself amongst the pages. Riveting| Raw| Revealing
Download or read book Rideshare Revelations from an la Uber Driver the Highlights the Lowlights and the Darkness written by Mark Alan Nisall and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happens inside an Uber? Rideshare passengers can be fun, interesting and wildly entertaining. But some individuals are strange, deeply troubled or bizarre at times. So fasten your seatbelts and get ready for some crazy rides around Southern California.Imagine your riding inside the Uber as you navigate through the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles and nearby cities. You can expect the unexpected because you never know what might happen when strangers get inside your vehicle. Forget what you previously thought about rideshare work and prepare to be shocked and surprised as you drive off into the unknown.Mark Nisall is a retired public safety veteran who completed 6,056 trips while driving 61,200 miles by working part time over three years. With 29 years of combined experience in law enforcement and judicial administration, he is uniquely well qualified to authentically narrate his most memorable rideshare adventures. These wide ranging situations are portrayed in clear and vivid detail so readers can vicariously experience them as if they were actually there.
Download or read book Confessions of an Uber Driver written by John Dillingham and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicled during the spring and summer of 2016 in Tampa Bay, Florida, these are the true stories and confessions of John Dillingham.
Download or read book The Uber Driver written by Vincent Prize and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book The UBER Driver describes one man's experiences driving thousands of passengers from varying backgrounds through the streets, highways, and towns within the New York metro, using the rideshare platform, Uber. It tells a story of immense hazard, danger, discovery, and sometimes the excitement of interacting every day with the mobile public, from the happy drunks of Hoboken, the super-rich of Edgewater, and Manhattan to the infected and dying patients of the Coronavirus. This book occupies a unique position, as one of the few books that were written in real-time, when covid19 was raging and rampaging the world and especially the New York metro. It shall remain a source of enormous information for anyone seeking the chronicle of the pandemic from the eyes of someone who was on the frontline. Since a hundred years from now, humans will like to know how their ancestors lived and finally survived the worst pandemic in recent memory. The UBER Driver also presents a wealth of information to any user or prospective user of rideshare, either as a driver or passenger. This information should be useful as a guide for better interaction between the two parties, the driver and passenger. In the chapter, Rideshare vs. Taxi, the author gives a scholarly dissection between the two modes of personal transportation, which might be an immense resource for any meaningful researcher. In order to tell the story of the experiences of rideshare drivers, using an Uber driver as a case study, as it relates to a wide range of behavior, occasioned by diverse characters, the author quit his job, drove Uber for almost three years, gave rides to thousands of passengers in the process, then one day, sat down and wrote about it. Due to limitations to the size of the book, he could only tell the story of less than one percent of his many passengers. Because if one wants to write about how it feels to have malaria, he or she should visit the tropics, get exposed to the malaria parasite, get sick, recover from it, and write all about it. One does not sit in a café in the middle of Manhattan or Paris and imagine how it feels to have malaria and attempt to write about it.
Download or read book Life in a Ride written by Mark Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trials and tribulations of a Los Angeles Uber Driver as he navigates not only the streets, but also a fledgling acting career, taking care of his ailing mom, and life in general.
Download or read book The Polish Rider written by Ben Lerner and published by Mack. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 2015, Ben Lerner wrote a short story, 'The Polish rider', incorporating fictionalized elements of the life and work of the artist Anna Ostoya, who had recently lost two of her canvases in the back of an Uber. As the narrator of the story helps the artist search for the missing canvases, he fantasizes about "recuperating the lost paintings through prose," about how the verbal might take the place of the visual. After the story was published in 'The New Yorker', Ostoya painted the painting Lerner had invented based on her earlier work, transforming the fiction without changing any of the words. Ostoya went on to produce a series of compositions that respond to the story she'd helped inspire. 'The Polish Rider' is the result of this ongoing conversation across media and genres. In addition to the story, this volume includes an essay by Lerner that describes how Ostoya's actual body of work catalyzed the fiction, as well as the contingencies and uncanny correspondences that have shaped their exchange. Ostoya's compositions -- both those that prompted Lerner's writing and those that take it up -- are never merely illustrative. Instead, they keep literature from having the last word. In this unclassifiable volume, the boundaries between fact and fiction, original and reproduction, text and image, flicker as you read and look.
Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Download or read book American Stutter 2019 2021 written by STEVE. ERICKSON and published by Zerogram Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Jonathan Lethem put, Steve Erickson's journal of the last 18 months of the Trump Presidency "sears the page." Erickson, one of our finest novelists, has long been an astute political observer, and American Stutter, part political declaration, part humorous account of more personal matters, offers a particularly moving reminder of the democratic ideals that we are currently struggling to preserve. Written with wit, eloquence, and a controlled fury as event unfold, Erickson has left us with an essential record of our recent history, a book to be read with our collective breath held.* Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels and two books about American culture. For 12 years he was founding editor of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is the film/television critic for Los Angeles magazine and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement award.
Download or read book A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
