2019 was my first full year driving rideshare with Uber and Lyft. The people I met, the stories and comments I heard, they were incredible. The holidays were coming up and I wanted to give a small, inexpensive gift to some of my riders. What could I give them that they would like?
Each month I had blogged about my favorite riders and my favorite rider comments so I decided to put together a list of my favorite rider comments of the year and give it out to some people. The response I got was off the charts and I decided to give it out all year long to riders who I knew would enjoy it.
I can't tell you how much fun this has been, how surprised people are, and how much they have enjoyed reading them. Below is my list of comments from 2025, some I heard in South Carolina and others in Colorado. In 2026, hundreds of my riders will get to read this. It's a great way to celebrate people.
I always tell people that some of these comments are funny and some are strange and some are just amazing. These people made 2025 an incredible year for me:
THE BEST OF THE YEAR
He: "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?"
He: "My dad had me when he was 65 and my mom was 23. He had 22 kids, 67 grandchildren and 30-40 great grandchildren. I think the song, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," was written about him."
She: "I was in a hurry in the bathroom and I went to brush my teeth and I grabbed the Preparation H and it was disgusting. There was no minty flavor. I probably needed a root canal after that."
She lost her mom three years ago and has been carrying and wearing her mom's ring. "It has bad karma and I want you to take it and change the karma and give it to a Leo. My mom's birthday was August 15th and mine was August 17th." (I gave the ring to a passenger's daughter in the Army for three years)
He said: "Even the geese are nicer in Colorado than Indiana. Several in Indiana attack me-they are crazy and angry."
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: "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."
The professional server gave this advice to give great service, "You have to read the room. You have to caress their face without touching them."
She: "My dad was a train conductor and he was a unruly grizzly bear. He had a distaste for the public."
He: "Out of college, five of my friends and I traveled out west looking for a lot of land to buy together. We bought 200 acres in British Columbia on a dirt road, with no electricity or running water, and an hour and a half from the nearest gas station. I built my house from scratch and we were there forty years."
She: "I have one more Super Bowl ring than Jerry Jones. (Owner of the Dallas Cowboys) I inherited two of them from my mom and aunt who had worked in scouting for the Cowboys."
I told a rider I know that I was moving after seven years and he said, "You're like criminals, you're moving every year. You're a fugitive, people are going to want to know what your crimes were. Can't wait until your kids find out you're fugitives. I might just turn you in if there's a reward."
Former flight attendant's favorite story, "I was going around and taking meal orders and for one flight it was beef and chicken, but we were out of chicken. A woman said to me, 'Is there some way we can stop somewhere and get some chicken?' I told her it doesn't work that way."
Young guy: "When I saw your mannequin it creeped me out at first, but some people are creeped out by the things I collect: knives, swords, bows, and lighters."
Married only five months, the wife said, "You've been with me all day, are you sick of me yet?" He said, "No, I have the rest of my life to get sick of you."
"I go by JP, my initials. My dad is JP too and my sister and two brothers are also JP. I named my two sons JP too. When you call out JP you can get anyone."
In Denver, The New York Giants fan said, "We're going to the game tomorrow against the Giants and my friends who are Denver Bronco fans are going to dress up as New York Giants fans for me." The two friends said, "It's okay, we're going to wear orange underwear." (The Broncos color)
He: "I knew I couldn't live the rest of my life with an old girlfriend the one moment when she got mad at me. She stood on my sofa, pulled down her pants, and urinated on it."
He: "I was 46 years old with no hope. I was a drug addict and had spent twenty years in jail for three bank robberies." He changed his life. He met his wife and at 60 years old has two young boys. "A company hired me at $12 an hour, trained me, and later I became their operations manager supervising fifty people. I helped two companies become million dollar businesses.
A server for 18 years, she had an amazing customer. "I had lost my 22-year-old son and returned to work. A regular customer noticed I wasn't myself and found out why. He gave me a $200 tip. Later that day he returned and handed me an envelope with $1,200 in it and said, 'Do something nice for yourself.' I bought a gravestone for my son."
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