1/2 price fares and leather chairs.

Willkommen Leute

As this is a recollection of the past few months of my foray into the funny and often fiendish realm of ride sharing.. please bare with me as I recap to the best of my infinitely wonderful memory and bring you up to speed ...    hope you all enjoy this lighthearted insight into the somewhat weird and wonderful world that is UBER and human behaviours taking place in the form of 4motion,  1/2 price fares and leather chairs.

So what led me to to it ?

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Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 4 years or you're against smartphones and still use a nokia 3210 or cup and string.....   you would have heard about this app / ridesharing company creating quite a stir around the world amongst taxi drivers and consumers, providing a friendly, easy to use and convenient platform for people to get from A to B (or sometimes C , D AND F) without the bullshit headache that taxi drivers are providing at a kings ransom.   What doesn't appeal about being a part of a multibillion dollar company riling up a bunch of old geezers and rocking the business world.



My former neighbour Danidaellus signed up to be a driver a couple of years ago and told me to give it a try but after he gave up on the idea (getting banned after trying to book fares for himself)    I pretty quickly stopped hearing about it and left my thoughts.. for the time.

 I've never used it as a rider or guest of a rider so was never really sure what to expect but have been hearing good things from others..  personally I enjoy the cardio from walking home from the city in my seldom drunken haze or attempting my best to speak chinese to taxi drivers but unfortunately my mandarin is not very complex and only consists of 'Hello' , 'Whos your Daddy' and 'Thanks' ... my subcontinental cabbies always love and laugh when i can manage to insult them, their mum, sister ,grandma and girlfriend in the one sentence with perfect form and accent.....      courtesy of my many years in sales and marketing jobs.


After hearing more and more positive things about uber and uberX as the months and years went by i i started to re-consider doing it as a side income and laugh.  

then my MAMA started to persist I do it as she was hearing from someone she knew that it was a bit of a hoot,  After a SILVER TOP TAXI almost TBONED my gf in her car and wrote it off..  and instead of claiming through his insurance to reimburse us he decided to neglect that and the taxi is taking us to court at our expense ... This really pissed me off I finally decided to stick one up them  and joined up with this band of controversial yet loveable, undercover super driving dudes providing a better service.

.. .          i thought "Hey..        There are worse things to be doing than cruising around the streets in a luxurious high powered european super hatch..  listening to the most banging beats known to man from my private collection as well as heroin infused swinging jazz music on eastside radio at 3am,  as well as the  rhasta dudes on weekend koori radio FM playing some quality stuff and talking about drinking potato juice for arthritis.. selassi e   ayyy !.)

also a good way of networking and reconnecting with my fellow humanoids at a rapid rate of interaction all while making some koin.



Thankfully due to the blessed universe and my divine connection I had prepared a comfortable yet stylish environment for all these interactions to take place by forming a union with the TUR7LE. the intergalactic shuttle of divine.

IGNITION ON.