On the way to New Zealand, he said, "I can't wait for the food we're about to have. But, my wife is gonna struggle. You're going to have to open up your palate." She: "Good thing I brought my anti-diarrhea pills."
I asked the couple how they met and he said, "We met on e-Harmony. One of her pictures was in a Hazmat suit and I said, 'This is interesting.'"
She told me, "Grandpa's Burgers" are the best. They've been around 50 years and the burgers are as big as my face."
As he got in my car he handed me a $3 tip. After thanking him I told him that he was only the fourth rider out of 16,000 to give me a tip before the ride started. He said, "I try to be a good person. I'm not very good at doing bad things."
She said, "Driving for an hour on the left side of the road (New Zealand) was the most terrifying experience of my life." Her husband added, "Mine too."
He told me, "I have multiple streams of income, managing a liquor store, rental properties and working in finance." I asked him how he manages that and he replied, "I get up and go and keeping going until the Lord tells me to stop."
The engaged couple had very different personalities. The outgoing woman said, "We bring people out of their shell, or we put them back in it because that's were it belongs."
I asked the guy who has been married thirty-two years what's the secret to his successful marriage and he said, "We've had our ups and downs, but you have to solve the problems. You have to forgive. My wife is a great woman."
She: "We've always joked about phrases that could be a hit single such as, "You have a half of a cat on your lap."
He: "For the last five years I've had a special holiday party. I go all out. The first one was a cooking extravaganza. I invite all kinds of people I've met and some people fly in from other countries. My only request is that you bring something from your culture to share with others."
She was very upset because she just left her assisted living job in tears. She: "They were abusing people. There was a woman lying on the floor covered in her own urine. I took a picture, look at this." I said, "I'm driving right now."
Me: "This is the kind of ride that I don't want to end." Husband: "You want to drive us to New Zealand? You know it's on an island?"
She: "When I started working at Amazon, "My hair to my pinky toe hurt."
For twenty years he built and repaired wind turbines and said, "I think I've climbed up 200 miles over the years and climbed down 200 miles. They are incredible machines."
My daughter said, "Compared to Uber drivers, you're funny. But most Uber drivers don't talk."
The creative guy said, "The end goal is not to be better than others, but to be better than you used to be."
He: "I was 46 years old and had no hope. I was a drug addict and I had spent twenty years in jail for three bank robberies." He was inspired at a meeting to change his life. He met his wife at a recovery meeting and at 60 years old he has two young boys. "I was hired by a company for $12 an hour, was trained, and later became their operations manager supervising fifty people. I helped two companies become million dollar businesses."
He told me this incredible story: "I should have died when I was 16. I was in a gang shooting and a bullet hit my heart. My doctor said he couldn't believe I was saved and it was a miracle. When I woke up I spoke to a nurse who told me, 'God put his hand over your heart to protect you because you have more to do on this earth.' A couple days later I was looking for that black nurse but I was told that they didn't have any black nurses in the emergency room. I never saw her again."
MORE COMMENTS
My daughter and son-in-law gave me a rotisserie chicken for their ride to the airport. "We bought it four days ago, it's not going to last long." I was going to stop over to see more family before eating it at home and she said, "Tell everyone we bought it a week ago, then none of them will eat it."
I told the bartender from Minnesota that he had the best laugh out of any of my riders from Minnesota. He laughed and said, "I'll take it. They can hear my laugh all the way across the casino. I want people to have a good time."
The couple told me, "Our son plays football for the Colorado School of Mimes." I was confused, maybe they said, "Minds?" It turns out that it was "The Colorado School of Mines," an elite engineering school.
She: "My friend had just moved to Richmond, Virginia and didn't know anyone. She was jogging and a guy almost ran her over with his bike. She called him an, "Asshole," and he stopped to talk to her and they've been together ever since."
She: "When women gossip it just shows how miserable they are."
She: "You can tell a Coloridian(really Coloradan) by how accepting they are. Some people also say by how eccentric they are."
She: "I've been a driver my whole life, with buses and now trucks. I traced my family back to Europe and they were all drivers, transportation-it's in my blood."
I asked what he did for work and he said, "I'm a tattooer. I'm an unusual person. While I work I can talk about anything I want, I have no HR to stop me."
She: "After college I want to be a Marine corps guard and then a foreign affairs analyst."
She: "Generations ago when my family came here from Europe, they disguised women and girls as men to get them here."
She explained, "I had my real estate license thirty years ago, but it wasn't right for me then so I let the license expire. Earlier this year I studied for twenty days and passed the test and got my license back and I enjoy it."
She: "I love healthcare, it's the best."
He: "I want to be a traveling carpenter and artist."
They taught me this: "In Burmese you say hello by saying "Mingaloba."
He: "I wanted to be a great father, but I turned out to be a great provider."
"If you tell yourself you're going to have a great day, you will."
He is a fanatical reader as I am and he said, "I'll always be reading." I told him it would make a great phrase for a tombstone and we laughed as he got out of my car.
Starting a new career doing taxes, she said, "I'm doing something for myself."
I told the liquor store manager that I don't put my mannequin head up in the car until 9 am, because I found out that if someone was drinking the night before, alcohol and mannequins do not mix well. He said, "A lot of things don't mix well with alcohol."
He: "My handwriting makes it look like I have Parkinson's."
She: "I wish I had started counting how many times you said chicken when we gave it to you. We need a chicken counter." She later said, "You've said it so many times that it would take an act of god to take you away from that chicken? I think we're at 72 for the chicken count."
"Despite how funny you two are, it was the chicken that got you to make my blog. She: "That's called bribery."
She: "My mom decided to change her life and personality. She started her own business cleaning houses and is about to become a life coach."
MY 71ST COUNTRY REPRESENTED IN MY CAR: NEPAL
NEW BILLS FROM NEW ZEALAND
On their return trip from their honeymoon, my daughter and son-in-law gave me these two bills. The back of both bills are spectacular and are displayed in my car.
UNIQUE OCCUPATIONS
She makes twenty wedding veils a day
Builder and climber of wind turbines
She was a former Black Hawk Army pilot
Chemist
Phlebotomist
Builder earth rover( A luxury expedition vehicle for overlanders)
Business owner of swim instructing
Engineer building solar farms
I DROVE PEOPLE FROM THESE COUNTRIES:
Switzerland, Myanmar, Columbia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Denmark, Honduras.
WHAT MY RIDERS SAID ABOUT ME AND MY CAR
The yoga teacher said, "Thanks for spreading positivity in the world."
"I'll never forget you."
"You're my favorite Uber driver of all time."
After getting a concussion in another Uber that day, he said, "If I tell anyone what I saw here they are going to say, 'Yeah, but you had a concussion.'"
She: "I could sit here all day and look at this."
She: "You've got it all tripped out in here."
"I've got to tell my friends about this."
"I try to be a nice guy, but you may have me beat."
"You made my day."
"This was a great experience."
Giving career advice to a young guy he said, "I appreciate your wisdom."
"You just brightened my day."
Finishing their vacation in my car museum, she said, "Thanks for fulfilling my wish of going to a museum."
"Keep doing what you're doing."
"That's dope."
"You don't meet many interesting Uber drivers."
"You find the good in people."
"Fabulous, this is amazing."
"This is the most unique Uber I've ever seen."
"You made it fun."
"I love it."
"I appreciate you."
"Your car is great."
"This is the coolest Uber I've ever been in."
"We loved talking with you."
"This is dynamic!"
"Amazing, I like it."
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