My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
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My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
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Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#2What a great story? I always ask Lyft/Uber drivers about interesting stories. One told me how he picked up 3 girls outside of a fancy condo in LA and drove them to Vegas which is about 300 miles and a 5 hr ride. Turns out the girls were drunk and the condo guy had called for a ride to take them home, And they decided they rather go to Vegas to continue the party ;-)
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#3I was hoping I'd get to know the total in case this ever happens to me!
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#4What a great story? I always ask Lyft/Uber drivers about interesting stories. One told me how he picked up 3 girls outside of a fancy condo in LA and drove them to Vegas which is about 300 miles and a 5 hr ride. Turns out the girls were drunk and the condo guy had called for a ride to take them home, And they decided they rather go to Vegas to continue the party ;-)
Wouldn't the person who called the Lyft be the one entering the destination?
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#5I was hoping I'd get to know the total in case this ever happens to me!
> Turns out it would cost about $330. Which, as it happens, was only a little bit more than what it would have cost for that one-way rental that Hertz wasn’t going to give me even though they had the car.
> When I got home I tipped him hugely
So, figure maybe $375-400?
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#6The utter inability to get a one-way rental is quite obnoxious. Also the bit about how he was able to reserve a car, but he wasn't a charter flight. Hertz's utter incompetence on the phone was striking as well from some sort of bizarro catch-22 world.
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#7I:
- Wish I drove for Lyft
- Lived in Chicago
- Had gotten him as a passenger
After 10-15 miles I would have said "So Mr. Scalzi, I'm going to need you to tell me what the Perry family is up to. Go ahead, I'll give you a few minutes to contemplate, but then you'd better get to telling me" then I'd have also inquired about the next in the Collapsing Empire series.
Joking aside, I'm curious to see more from the driver. What did you think when you accepted the fare curbside aside from "I like long trips"? Did you stay at the destination for a night or immediately drive back? If you have a partner were they a bit upset? What's it like driving a stranger for 5 hours?
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#8What a great story? I always ask Lyft/Uber drivers about interesting stories. One told me how he picked up 3 girls outside of a fancy condo in LA and drove them to Vegas which is about 300 miles and a 5 hr ride. Turns out the girls were drunk and the condo guy had called for a ride to take them home, And they decided they rather go to Vegas to continue the party ;-)
Wouldn't the person who called the Lyft be the one entering the destination?
I would imagine he handed his phone over and said "put in your address".
Re: My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
#9I was hoping I'd get to know the total in case this ever happens to me!
> Turns out it would cost about $330. Which, as it happens, was only a little bit more than what it would have cost for that one-way rental that Hertz wasn’t going to give me even though they had the car. > When I got home I tipped him hugely So, figure maybe $375-400?
Couple of years ago there was a professional football player that took an Uber from O'Hare to Buffalo, NY for just under $1000 to make it practice on time.
Anyway, this guy could have taken a Megabus to from Chicago to Cincinnati for $25 and then done a rideshare the rest of the way. It would have been far less expensive.