She: "My eight-year-old got her ears pierced yesterday and she now looks 41."
Middle aged man: "I sell software in my underwear."
The married couple of ten years was celebrating his birthday and I said it was more significant than me celebrating 39 years of marriage the next day. He disagreed saying, "Anyone who suffers the pain and torture of a woman for that long, it's more." His wife added, "She may not be as bad as me."
I asked the man how old his youngest son was and he said, "6 and my other son is 12, my wife is 32 and I'm..." Me: "I only asked to see if he needed a booster seat."
"America" ordered the ride for her sister, who told me that "America" always wanted to come here from Costa Rica." She lives here locally and, "She's a teacher and her students call her Ms. America."
Woman: "When I came out as gay to my whole family, my 90-year-old grandmother said immediately, "I wish I liked women, men suck."
Married fifty years, I asked the couple, "What is the secret to a successful marriage?" He said, "You can't give up when the road gets bumpy."
Young guy early in the morning who hadn't slept: "I think you've been in a movie. You have a very soothing voice-you can put a person to sleep-I mean in a good way."
The woman in marketing said, "When you get your 10,000th ride you should have firecrackers in your car-have your riders hold them."
The family from Connecticut told me what they named their dog. "It's an Aussie Doodle and he's Sir Oliver George Flat-White the First."
The woman from the northeast was frustrated by the service at a very nice restaurant. "The waiter did not stop talking to us and I was thinking, don't you have something better to do? At another place the bartender kept complaining it was so busy instead of just pouring my wine, it was frustrating."
Man from California, "I haven't seen anyone drive in the rain in so long. (Due to the drought) We could use two to three weeks of this." Me: "Do you want to take a picture?"
The Mexican man who loves making pizza said, "If you don't love what you do, do something else."
The retired IRS manager from Missouri, she said, "The three toughest calls I had to take were people who threatened suicide if I couldn't help them stop the IRS from taking everything from them. We only do that after ten years if our efforts to get them to pay have failed. I don't sugarcoat it, I tell them like it is."
Woman from the north: "Getting used to the friendliness of people down here is exhausting."
Woman: "I do digital marketing and send out all the ads you get on your computer." Me: "So you're the one responsible?"
Him: "I'm a lawyer, which really stands for- a lot more work."
After agreeing to stop somewhere on the way, the two bartenders said, "We'll pay you some extra cash." I said, "I have a lot of trouble spending cash these days, people don't take it." Getting out of the car, she handed me a $20 bill and said, "Spend it and think of me." (She did not wink)
The nurse of 37 years was doing COVID testing for awhile: "I was raking it in, they paid me $44 an hour and were paying for mileage too."
Woman: "I try to throw out ten things each day in my house. When you throw things out you don't need, you feel better."
Male: "I've sold magazines door-to-door in 48 states and did very well, but it was a pyramid scheme and I lost everything."
Him: "People in the south are just living in a different time frame than people in the north. You may have five slow cars in front of you, because someone is looking at a cool bird."
Male recruiter: "Today, you have to convince people that having a job is a good thing to have."
She: "I want my son to visit all 50 states and we've done 15 now including Alaska." (10 year old son) "My Mom has been to all except Rhode Island."
When I told the female Immigration lawyer that the Ravenel Bridge was built to look like two sailboats in the distance, she said, "Where's the proof?" Joking with her I said, "You're pleasantly argumentative." She replied, "I pride myself in it."
I asked the young woman with bright, long pink hair if my hair was pink driving my orange car if it would clash and she said, "No it would look great, you can bleach it."
Red Sox fan: "I've caught about 100 baseballs at Fenway Park in my life."
Woman: "I've been drug free for four years and I've helped 15 other women with God's help remain drug free."
Male: "When I was 7, I went to Madison Square Garden with a large group of kids and we were waiting to say hello to some of the Knicks, but they ran right by us. Magic Johnson ran across the court to talk with us and that's when he became my favorite player."
"My friend got tickets for the World Series game from Yankee Wade Boggs that Jim Leyritz hit the big home run in 1996 in Atlanta. We went back to the hotel and partied with the Yankees."
The successful doctor who grew up in Ireland and lives locally: "My wife and I are both doctors and we were trained here at John Hopkins. We were the only two doctors who come from a working class background. I think we have an easier time relating to all of our patients."
She: "I don't like rain, because I don't have any control over it."
Sales manager: "I'm not sure where I got it from, but when I talk about enthusiasm I tell people that the "iasm" means "I am sold myself."
After telling the woman from Moscow about the Russian woman years ago who showed me her phone with Putin's picture on the back, she said, "One of my friends has a whole box of them and sells them."
She said, "What's been your best part of the week?" Me: "Right now, today's my birthday and I'm working." She: "Tomorrow's my birthday.' Me: "Can I sing you "Happy Birthday?" She: "Only if I can sing it with you." We did.
Jamaican proverb: "A little laughter is better than a quarrel."
Referring to her friend who we were picking up, I said, "Your boyfriend." She: "He's not my boyfriend, he's my stupid friend."
"My Uber driver said that when he first got here it was his goal to play all 100 golf courses and he did."
She: "My grandmother is a real spitfire. She just turned 100 and she looks 75 and does a lot of independent things."
Female Red Sox fan: "My grandfather was a big fan, but he died six months before the Red Sox won in 2004. (after 86 years) I believe he was still rooting them on up there."
Sales manager: "I think if you do the right things the universe puts you in the right place for good things."
The woman from Highland Park, NJ.(Close to where I grew up) wished me a happy 39th anniversary and said, "You should get a gift, this is for you." She gave me a sticker from the restaurant she was just at-it's the thought that counts.
Male rider in Charleston area: "I've had a few difficult experiences with drivers. One fell asleep on the highway, one was "having fun by himself" in the front seat, and another had her boyfriend in the car. He said it was her first night driving and he wanted to make sure she was safe. He tried to sell me meth and was upset when I said, "no."
The two older women from Oklahoma, had a lot of trouble returning their rental car to the rental building at Charleston Airport. They didn't know where the rideshare pick-up was and after telling the driver who was picking up they couldn't find it, he canceled the ride. The woman's sister sat down on the curb and did not feel well. An ambulance was called and she was having a heart attack. A second Uber driver arrived and he was given $20 because they couldn't take the ride. Within two hours she had two stints put in and was doing very well after getting a lot of good care.
Couple married 39 years: "Our family has been coming to North Myrtle Beach for 73 years. There were three brothers who made a pact that if they all survived World War 11, they would take a week vacation each August in North Myrtle Beach for the rest of their lives." Parts of their family have continued the tradition every single year.
"My grandfather worked for the Pittsburgh Pirates as an usher for 64 years. His friend worked until there until he was 98. He was working in 1935 at Forbes Field when Babe Ruth hit the last three home runs of his career. The last one landed in the parking lot (Estimated 600 feet) and my grandfather said that he and another guy saw the ball roll under a car, but didn't realized what it was until later." (Ruth retired eight days later)
Retired man: "I invented the process of making colorful bark and it all started when my four-year old son asked me a question. We were feeding the dog and I poured water into the bowl of dog food and he said, "Why is the water red? I have a patent and the company I sold it too, does millions of dollars in sales."
The woman from Boston who is a Red Sox fan told me, "My Aunt is the biggest fan, she used to work at the Green Giant." I first thought she was talking about a supermarket or the vegetable company and then I said, "Do you mean the Green Monster?"(The famous wall in left field) Her: "Yes, oh, she would be mortified if I told her what I said."
He: "I worked three three years as a ball boy and in the clubhouse for the Pirates when I was in high school. Sometimes I worked 16 hours in a day as the attendant for the opposing teams. It was really good money and I got good tips. When I was 16, I once drove Joe Torre around downtown when I just started driving."
Guy from New York: "We were at the pool at one of the hotels here and a guy was cooking some hot dogs and hamburgers for us and a few families. He looked at the time and said, "It's one o'clock my shift his over. He put everything down and just left. The next worker arrived twenty minutes later."
SOME MORE COMMENTS
Young woman was lives in Moscow, "I wasn't really impressed with New York City."
He: "I was at a World Series game at Fenway when a foul ball was hit right to my good friend and he missed it. The very next pitch was a foul ball hit in exactly the same spot and I pushed him out of the way and caught it."
The pilot told me and showed me, "This a picture from the air I took of the Sierra Mountains in California when they were on fire."
Male: "I became an owner of a local public television station after I was asking if I wanted to manage it."
The General Manager of two car dealerships in Pennsylvania said, "We've done a pretty good job in getting new cars in, better than a lot of other places."
Manager from New York, he said, "I am enjoying every single minute here in Myrtle Beach."
Looking at a picture of my wife, she said, "She's gorgeous, beautiful. You tell her I said she's "Beautamiss." (A word her and her friend came up with in the past)
"I knew I wanted to be a Neurosurgeon when I was in 4th grade since my Dad was one. My residency is seven years and I'm done with the first one."
She told me, "You tell your wife that you met a very nice woman who is a retired IRS Manager."
Living here in the south, he said, "I don't do heat."
Young woman: "I've never talked to an Uber driver in New York."
"We had D. Lawrence of the Cowgirls come in recently with his family on vacation." (He plays football for the Cowboys and this guy is a New York Giant fan."
Woman from California about Myrtle Beach: "I love it here, but it's too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter."
Woman from California about Myrtle Beach: "I love it here, but it's too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter."
Woman: "I do digital marketing and send out all the ads you get on your computer." Me: "So you're the one responsible?"
Young woman: "I've never talked to an Uber driver in New York."
College student who has lived in many countries: "I loved living in Thailand because of it's culture and friendly people."
"The air is much better her in South Carolina."
She: "I'm hoping some of your positivity rubs off on my four-year-old."
She and her group from New York: "Can we take a selfie with you?"
The young woman said, "I like your vibe."
Woman: "You have the coolest set-up in your car, don't tell anyone about your ideas."
Graduating with a Sociology degree, she said about the book I'm writing, "I'd buy that book."
She said, "I love your energy."
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