He told me, "I put orange juice in my Captain Crunch and Frosted Flakes. It started when I was a kid. I loved orange juice and I loved cereal, what could go wrong, diarrhea?"
She: "My cat brought a blue jay into the house so I decided to raise it. It sings and dances now. It's blue, white and black, like a cop."
"I go by JP, my initials. My dad is JP too and my sister and two brothers. I named my two sons JP also. When you call out JP you can get anyone."
She lives in Hawaii and said, "I've had friends who thought that fog and snow were made up by mainlanders to make us look bad."
She: "My mom was going to be a nun until she met my dad. They fell in love immediately and then she told him she wanted to have 13 kids. He didn't want 13 kids, but he said they could have 14, all of them starting with M after his name. He would name one child without her knowing and he named me Montana."
The woman said she was from Long Island, New York and I said, "I don't hear any accent." She replied, "I was tired of people laughing at it."
"Any company that uses AI to recruit doesn't deserve good employees."
He: "I used to build these inflatable fabric domes that football teams use. I once built one in the mountains of Chile over a gold mine."
He: "My daughter is majoring in POMS.(Dance) It's a new version of sports medicine.(???)
They have been engaged for a year and a half and have not scheduled a wedding date. He explained, "We're not yet ready to let the government get involved."
He: "I tried to get an Uber at 5 pm on a Friday night to go 10 miles. They wanted to charge me $240 so I decided to walk and then someone picked me up."
"In Chihuahua, Mexico there is a bridal shop with a mannequin in the window in a bridal gown. It is believed by some it was the owner's daughter who died on her wedding day and she had her embalmed."
MORE RIDER COMMENTS
"My dad has lived in 42 countries and in his house he has a currency wall, with maybe bills from 100 countries." (I only have 69 countries represented in my car.)
Blind woman: "I went to China for special treatment because it wasn't approved here. I was there for 28 days and it has helped me see bigger objects."
When I told him about the guy who puts orange juice in his cereal, he said, "That makes sense, but I haven't had cereal in thirty years."
Truck driver: "I need to driver 3,500 miles a week to make money with my truck."
She: "When I had my baby, my mom bought this house for the baby."
I asked the woman who lives in Hawaii, "How did you decide to go to the University of Rochester in New York?" She: "People in Hawaii always talk about going to college on the mainland, but I had never seen snow."
He: "In about two years I took 250 flights for work."
"I was born in Hawaii, but I'm not a native because my parents did not have any Hawaiian blood."
"My dad was a groundskeeper for the Rams for thirty years. I have 9 signed Kurt Warner jerseys."
When the ten-year-old was asked what side of San Diego she wanted to visit, she said, "The real side," which is the ocean side.
I drove three singers from three different states who just met and performed together in a wedding. I asked, "How long did it take you to get used to singing together?" They said, "Not long, we do this a lot and we need to be able to sing 200-300 standard wedding songs."
I asked her if she had taken any psychology classes in school and she said, "No, my family is a good crash course in psychology."
She: "We run a non-profit organization in Denver called Be Present which brings together groups of people and you get to know them and their spirit."
The two Mexican women were all dressed up and they said, "We're celebrating the Mexican Independence day and I'm dressed as La Catrina which symbolizes death."
Woman in the Army: "I was stationed in Japan for four years and I loved it. I climbed Mt. Fuji. There was so much to do, it's a different world."
I told her that I just had a birthday and she said, "It's good to add another year."
I was going to drop him off and he said, "Look for the Buffalo." (the statue)
"If you like to drive, being an Uber driver is a pretty good gig."
She's in the Army and told me, "I'm going to go to school to be a midwife."
He: "I moved out of Louisiana because I wanted a better life."
He: "They just came out with a bill in the U.K. with Ozzy Osbourne on it."
"I played basketball in Italy for two years."
I asked her how her parents came up with the unique spelling of her name and she said, "My parents are weird."
She had stopped riding with Uber and Lyft for awhile because, "The cars were dirty, they didn't have any respect for the customer and they complained when I complained to them."
I'VE DRIVEN PEOPLE FROM THESE COUNTRIES THIS MONTH:
Nepal, Iran, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mexico, China, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Tongan, India, Spain.
NEW BILL
The 69th country represented in my car is the country of Croatia and I traded a bill to get it.
NEW HAT
After telling the Green Bay Packer fan that when I was young I rooted for The New York Giants and The Green Bay Packers. He took off this hat off his head and gave it to me to display in my car. It was very generous of him-thank you. The hat will be displayed in my car with two other hats riders have given me.
UNIQUE OCCUPATIONS:
Telescope Observer
Make-up artist
Formerly did "Death investigations."
Tour guide for Women's Museum
In school to be a Pastor
Industrial engineer for Kroger
Part-time rodeo roper
Former basketball player in Italy
Wedding singers
RIDER SURVEY: When you eat cereal, do you drown your cereal or just put some in?
Drown 1 Just put milk in 6 Don't drown, but put a lot in 2
WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT ME OR MY CAR:
"This is off the chain."
"It was a pleasure to meet you, you made this whole trip worth it. Keep up the awesome attitude and stay on the sunny side."
Originally from Spain, she said, "This was the best experience of my life, my day, with Uber."
"We need more kindness and happiness in the world. This makes me smile."
"This is beautiful."
"I've been in hundreds of Ubers, I've never seen anything like this."
"We've lost connections with people, this is intimate connections-another way of connecting."
"You've done a lot with your car."
"This is like history."
He was showing his wife in New Orleans a video of my car and she said, "I like it, I like it."
"You are amazing."
"I have money from my country, but it's not worth anything." (The U.S.)
"Can I get a picture with you?"
"Thank you, this was a very cool ride."
"This is the most unique Uber I've ever been in."
Former rider in South Carolina texted: "My husband misses you."













