Me: "How did you two meet?" He said, "We met at the rodeo. My friend bet me $50 I couldn't get her number. I went over to her and gave her my phone and said, 'Can you fill this out for me?'" (Engaged and together ten years)
He: "What's the number one responsibility of a father? Teach your kids how to throw-up, so they get to the toilet."
Cleveland Browns fan: "For the last ten years every time the Browns lose I donate $1 to charity. (St. Judes) I'm going to go broke."
Me: "Have you ever gotten a gift from an Uber driver?" Her: "Maybe some fleas once."
The engineer who designs crosswalks, asked, "Why do they have so many crosswalks in Myrtle Beach that go nowhere?"
I asked him what he does for work in Kentucky and he said, "I make peanut butter for a living. At Jiffy, we put out one million pounds a day and I get free peanut butter all the time."
I showed them a picture of the largest golf driver in the world from their home state of Illinois and she said, "Can you swing it?" Me: "It's 731 pounds." She: "I know a lot of strong men."
As he got in my car I asked the young guy, "What are you up to today?" He said, "I just skedaddled out of a girl's apartment." I asked, "Do you skedaddle a lot?" He said, "I do."
He: "Charleston is where all the beautiful women are. In high school they all sat at the same table, today they are all in Charleston."
He grew up in Boston and was a big Red Sox fan. I said, "How great is this? The morning after the Yankees win the pennant, I get to talk with a Red Sox fan! I've had a lot of great rides with Red Sox fans." He said, "This isn't going to be one of them." When he got out, he said, "F_ _ _ the Yankees." He was only half joking.
When I told her that the picture of the Super Bowl ring hanging in my car was from a woman working for the Chiefs in public relations, she said, "They let women work in the NFL?"
The Citadel student said, "I'm worried that some of my friends in other colleges are learning how to be functional alcoholics."
I asked the couple what they were up today and he said, "We're doing some swimming." He meant they were going to drink by the water. I said, "I really thought you were going swimming." He: "That's probably because I have a swimmer's body."
She: "English was my worst subject in school, because nuns were teaching it."
I asked the woman in medical sales for twenty years," What's the secret to your sales success?" She said, "Being genuine, knowledgeable, and persistent."
His real name is Moses and he said, "I had a number of teachers growing up who told me that I didn't act like Moses did."
She: "I wasn't going to come to the bachelorette party, but I won $1,000 on the slots, so I came."
She: "I drive badly so no one asks me to drive them."
The woman who lost her child eleven years ago during childbirth told me, "Every year I take off on that day and we release balloons to remember him."
The angry Verizon user said as he was getting out, "I better tip you now before I throw this phone through the wall."
MORE RIDER COMMENTS
She: "I was named Sloane, because my dad liked the name from the girl in the movie, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
The young guy said, "The day I got the DUI was the worst day of my life." (In a golf cart)
"In Thailand they have shrimp in their pizza."
From Canada originally I told him that I visited "Man and his World" in Montreal when I was a kid. (World's Fair in 1967) He said, "You can't say that anymore."
"Chicago is the best city in the world to live in between June and October."
"The class that more people fail in college than any other is accounting."
Instead of saying her car was in the shop, she said, "My car is in distress."
He told me, "I was born to live out in the woods."
Talking to him how on the app Uber considers this a trip and not a ride. He said, "It is called rideshare."
The big Chicago Cubs fan admitted, "When they won in 2016 I cried like a baby."
She: "As a med-tech I work seven straight twelve hour days and then I have seven straight days off. I get two weeks of work done every other week."
Woman originally from Denmark, "I'm retired as an ice skater and I've toured Europe, Canada, and the United States."
Very interested in politics, I asked him, "What do you think is going to happen in the election?" He said, "I think she's going to get smoked."
From Idaho, the teacher told me, "Idaho is on of the worst states in spending for education and Washington state is one of the best."
After I told him I had over 14,000 rides, he said, "They should get you a cake."
She said, "My friend's brother's girlfriend was the college student who got killed getting into a car that wasn't an Uber a few years ago."
UNIQUE OCCUPATIONS
Book Event Planner for Publishing Company
Crosswalk and Traffic Signal Designer
Confidential Secretary for the New York Stock Exchange
Peanut Butter Maker for Jiffy
Airplane mechanic and Pro Boxer
Retired ice skater from Denmark
His title is "Right Away Line Clearance.
President Materials Company
Tour bus driver for "The Temptations"
Law Professor
General Manager Steel Company
(She's from Chicago, Lily is from Kansas)
COMMENTS ABOUT LILY MY MANNEQUIN
"What's with the doll head?"
"I didn't even see her there."
She: "My mom was a manager in a department store and she had a young girl responsible for dressing all the mannequins and she used to talk to them too."
He: "She's hot."
"My daughter was told by another child that mannequins were really dead people."
"What is she looking at?"
COMMENTS ABOUT ME AND MY CAR
"You just made my day."
"This is so special-I never could have expected to get a ride like this."
"I had a really hard time all week, you are all the sunshine I needed today."
The company President said, "I love what you're doing. This is human-why we exist."
"This is the most interesting ride I've ever had."
"That was the best ride ever."
"You're so much fun."
"This is amazing."
"I love your car."
"Hope you get your 20,000 rides."
"This was awesome."
