I do most of my Uber/Lyft driving during the early morning/day/supper hours, so driving overnight was going to be a different experience for me this year. I was surprised how easy it was. I took a two hour nap after work and felt pretty refreshed when I finished up at 3:30 am. As it turned out I was awake for about 22 of 24 hours, which seems ridiculous. I guess all those hours delivering magazines on long days helped me adjust easily.
I was prepared to eat and have some fun too. I packed donuts, raisins, pretzels and a sandwich. I got hungry for the sandwich around 2 am and it's probably the first time I've had a sandwich in the morning. It tasted just as good as it does at a normal time, although I regularly eat lunch at 10 am.
It was slow picking up rides until 11 pm and it was crazy busy from 12 midnight to 1:30 am. One thing I noticed was that the volume of people talking was very high. I'm guessing alcohol is to blame. I definitely talked less since it was impossible to talk at times. I did get two hugs from women in one night which I believe equals the number I've gotten in 2,900 other rides. Again, most likely alcohol is to blame. After 2 am, a political argument broke out and the two sides, (liberal and conservative), sounded just as ridiculous as they do without alcohol. But, they were definitely louder and I just listened and pretended I didn't care about the subject. (not easy to do)
There were definitely a few people who were feeling no pain and they should never have been driving a car in that condition. I made pretty good money and it was a relatively easy night. It certainly was a different experience than I'm used to, but I did have fun also.
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