MAY RIDER COMMENTS

Young man: "The fence business is booming.  People were home for a whole year and they hate their neighbors."

Me: "how are you today?" Male: "I'm amazing." Me: "Why are you amazing?" Male: "I'm always amazing. I decided a few years ago that I was tired of being negative, life is too short." Me: "What did your family say when you changed?" "Male: "Who the "F  " are you?"

Female hair stylist: "The guy came in with blue hair and he wanted me to put horns on his head.  It was difficult, but I did it." 

Male houseman at hotel: "A 25 year old woman at our front desk asked me for help.  A sink had overflown and she was going to clean it up with a mop. She was holding the mop and said, " I don't know how to use this."

Woman: "When I started working in the hospital cleaning rooms I decided to lose weight. I drank a lot of water and doing my job I lost 60 pounds in three months." Me: "that would make a great recruitment video, lose weight while you make money."

(2 pm-not under the influence): Young woman: "I go to Wake Forrest." Me: "What are you majoring in?" Her: "Philosophy, but I graduated." Me: "When did you graduate?" Her: "Last week, I forgot.  It's fresh in my mind."

"Being in the Air Force I had a friend fly my girlfriend and I over the beach at Hilton Head.  Earlier, with another friend we spelled out, "WILL YOU MARRY ME" in the sand.  When we flew over it I said to my girlfriend, "what does that say and I got on my knee and gave her the ring." I told the pilot shake the wings which meant she said yes, but she thought we were going down and she got sick."

Retired from the used car business: "I've been cheating and lying about my earnings for many years."

Male: "I manage some rental properties, but I don't want to talk about what I do for a living. Me: "CIA?" Him: "You would either thank me or curse me." Me: "Can you write it on a piece of paper and I won't look at it until you leave or put it on the app?" (he didn't, politics?)

Him: "The only traffic we have in South Dakota is cows and tractors."

After I told him I ran over a salad fork which destroyed my tire in downtown Charleston, he said, " in Birmingham, Alabama I ran over a wrench. The roads are so bad there, if you're not clenching your teeth there, they will fall out."

Retired Air Force Photographer: "It took me a couple years to adjust to retirement." Me: "What do you spend a lot of time on now?" Him: "I do a podcast called "Last Letters." I interview people with a simple question, " If tomorrow was your last day on earth, what would your last letter be?"

Young black man: "One of the things I do is sell women's hair. I have a supplier."

 Me: "Did you get some fresh air today?"  Her: "Yes, when I walked to your car."

"The problem with communication is the allusion that it has been achieved."

"When I was 6-9 years old we had two family friends who were cops and they would sit with me and tell me about all the horrors of the world. My sister said I was 30 years old out of the womb."

Black man in his 20's: "When you have to have a passion for something, you'll get it done. You need to have the mindset of getting it done."

She graduated the day before and majored in Political Science: "Political Science doesn't have to be one side against the other, we are all Americans."

She: "My name was supposed to be "Patience", but they changed it to Zara. I don't know why you'll have to ask them, they made me."

Two young women after asking me an unusual question: "We're private investigator's from Los Angeles." (Just kidding, actually sales reps) "We're good liars."

 Me to a Trauma Nurse: "How do you keep what happened in the hospital from affecting you at home?" Her: "I get off from work and go into my car in the parking garage and take off my badge and then my bra and it helps a lot."

Young white woman who used to live in Atlanta: "They talk about diversity here in Charleston but, I've seen very little of it."

Female Nurse: "The bridge (Ravenel) doesn't look like a bra, if anything maybe mishapen boobies and I've seen a lot of them."

Male barber from Ohio: "I was in Brooklyn, NY with my girlfriend at a concert and saw a woman with green hair. The next day I saw the woman in line at the airport to go back to Ohio on my flight. A short time later I was looking at paintings online and the painting I wanted to buy was painted by the woman in green hair whose picture was taken at the concert we were at. A few months later after I bought the painting we were on our first date and several people thought we were married. We've been together two years.

Two Navy guys: "In 2020 we were on a secret mission for the first half of the year with no contact with the outside world.  When we finished it in June we were shocked that the world had changed. It wierded me out. I went to shake someone's hand and was told, 'we don't do that anymore.' "

Male finance mortgage guy from San Clemente, California: "The Richard Nixon estate is for sale for $60 million, we can go 50-50 on it. Me: "I'll check with my accountant, just get us a good rate."

Married for 19 years he was out with the guys and texted his wife, "feeling a a bit of loneliness without you."

30-year old woman: "People are so hopeful and happy here. That's why I moved to Mt. Pleasant from Los Angeles."

Female graduate of the College of Charleston: As she got in the car she said, "So no ones drives Uber here anymore?"

Woman: "One male Uber driver was encouraging us to give him a tip and he said, "you take care of me and I'll take care of you."

Male living in New York to me: "You're very friendly for someone from New Jersey."

Female mariner: "The think I like best about being at sea is seeing something at that moment that no one else is seeing."

When I asked the two young couples if they were ready for hear the best baseball story ever, one of the girls who was not a baseball fan said, "I've never been more ready in my life." 

The young black male was emptying my trunk of his dirty laundry.  Me: Don't leave anything in there." Him: "I don't think you want any of my funky clothes."

"Our last Uber driver told us that he took a few guys to Wal-Mart to buy needles for their drugs."

"A fish wouldn't get in trouble if it kept it's mouth closed."

She: "When I first started at Publix I was taking a cart out of the store for a couple just in from New Jersey.  They said, "what are you doing?" When I told them they said, "this is crazy, we're not used to this."

Her: "My Dad told my Mom before she was pregnant that our first daughter would be named after a New Zealand opera singer and I am."

Woman: "The best thing about living in Wyoming is that it's the least populated state."

Him: "The 'pride and joy' of our hotel at the front desk told our customer, "F-you" and then walked out of the hotel."

"The toughest part of being a fireman for me is being woke up suddenly and having to think clearly and make decisions."

Young male in the National Guard: "Anxiety does not have any control of my life anymore."

Male: "I started out as a bartender in a dive bar and at times made $600 in tips in a night."

Female: "I started as an exercise science and a Spanish major and wound up as a Political Science major and I'm now in Law school."

"Parking in Downtown Charleston is not my favorite."

Male: "A woman does not make you smarter unless you are with one."

Me: "How are you unique?"  Her: "I'm actually pretty boring."

Her: "I'm just going home, I have a lot of food to make and steak too." Me: "You can't talk about steak at 7 am, I'm already hungry."

Him: "I ride my bike 4-5 miles with my dog running with me." Me: "How did you do it in the beginning?" Him: "She really didn't like it at first."

Driving in Daniel Island, the guy in his 20's looked at the houses and said, "what do they do?" Me: "They don't do anymore, they did it."

Male: "I think the Ravenel bridge looks like a Christmas tree." The other guy in the car said, "I think it looks like a slice of pizza."

Male showing me a picture of a dolphin in the water. "I'm in a tugboat every day for work and my coworker videoed this dolphin alongside us."

When I asked the two young couples if they were ready for hear the best baseball story ever, one of the girls who was not a baseball fan said, "I've never been more ready in my life." 

"When I was five years old I said I wanted to be a lawyer and I just finished my first year."

Male: "I've been a real estate attorney for 20 years in Myrtle Beach.  2020 was the best year I ever had and this year we actually had to turn down business."

The young black male was emptying my trunk of his dirty laundry.  Me: Don't leave anything in there." Him: "I don't think you want any of my funky clothes."

Mailman: "I've only been bitten twice in 17 years.  One of them came right through the screen door and bit my arm and when I hit it, it bit me in the leg."

"Awhile back we took some kind of ride service and the driver told dirty jokes the whole trip."

The young guy gets in the car and says, "I'm in really bad shape, there was an open bar last night at the wedding."

Me on Mother's Day: "Are you a Mom?" Rider: "No, I just have two fur balls."

Woman: "I hire people for high end job for a large dental business and I currently have 17 positions to fill."

Male: "A woman does not make you smarter unless you are with one."

Woman" My sister took an Uber in New York and the guy looked her up on a site and sent her inappropriate messages.  She was scared and reported him."

Female bartender: "I said to her, "no mam I did not say m'am to you because you were older."

"The Pandemic was good for us because we got to find some Marriott timeshare places in this country that we had never tried before."

Young woman in her 20's with friends: "We're living our best life now."

When I mentioned that I write a blog about some my riders, the woman yelled out, "we're going to be in the blog!"

They went to put three paintings in my van. I said, "would you like me to do that?" She said, "yes, you're more sober than we are." 8 am Sunday morning.

"I wish you lived here in Charleston and drove here more often," she said.

Male manager in tech company: "I enjoy management because of the variety of jobs you have to do."

Woman: "I love living in Denver because of all the seasons and you can go to different parts of the area for different weather."

Female bartender: "I'm a bartender now and not a server, it's called seniority.  I now work smarter and not harder."

Woman: "I enjoy being cold."

25 year old male Air Force office: "I'm in charge of some guys who are older than me and they are asking me marital advice and I'm just winging it."

Retired from the used car business: "I've been cheating and lying about my earning for many years."

"Louisville is the Un-Kentucky like Nashville is the Un-Tennesee"

"The weather in Wyoming is horrible.  It snowed the other day there."(May 1)

Male: "I have a love-hate relationship with the color orange. I hate Clemson on Saturday, but love the Cleveland Browns on Sunday."

After giving the best man's speech last night, I gave the guy who was in construction some advice on public speaking.  Him: "My next speech will be in May next year and I'll remember your advice."

Female: "Trying to teach 5 year olds online during the beginning of the pandemic was terrible, just awful."

She: "I made a plate of food at a barbecue for my boyfriend who was from the North and his Mom could not believe I did it. She expected her son to make his own plate, but that's how we do things down south."

She was going to a shooting class at a range. Me: "Are you awake yet?" Her: "I'm almost awake." Me: "
"I'm not letting you out until you're awake, you're going to put a gun in your hand."

Male: "I'm bitter that there's been so many houses built in the Charleston area."

"Everything was so good on the trip I don't have anything to bitch about."

Male: "I used to work for WFAN in New York.  Mike Francessa is a pompous ass."

"People here in the south are very outspoken."

Female looking up at my sign in the car, "If you can't find the sunshine, be the sunshine." She said, "Did your daughter write that?" Me: "No, if either one of them did, it would look better."