Adventures of a Lyft Driver

I got pinged to arrive at a gas station in western Lake Worth. I find two girls next to a small, inexpensive white car. They hug, one gets in my car for a long ride South. I quickly learn the other girl's car had broken down twice that night and she had just bought it the day before from an acquaintance. They had been highly distraught about the girl's car, obviously. At a stop light, she asks if I know about cars and I answer, "yes." She then shows me a video on her phone of the problem her friend was having. After hearing about the issue and seeing the video, it was just a busted radiator hose. They had been convinced the car needed to be "trashed." I told the girl, "Look, the auto parts store up the street here just opened, we can end the ride and get what she needs and fix it in about 5 minutes." You would have thought I had offered to buy her friend a new car. "What? Are you serious????" She was ecstatic and called her friend i...

This morning around 6:30 a.m., I got pinged to pick up a guy at a Boca Raton drug store. It was early and the store had not yet opened. I arrived a couple minutes later to find two guys in their 20s with suitcases. Now, let me say from the onset, these two characters were genuine and hard not to like, so the following is written with affection, especially for their particular situation. When they see my car, they act as if they are blown away that I got there so quickly and had three large bags of luggage. I thought they were going to the airport though upon checking the app, I saw they were going to a WalMart quite a distance away. Odd start. The guy who requested the ride was shirtless, had cargo shorts hanging below his but and just looked a mess, similar to Keanu Reeves in "Bill & Ted".  The other guy was more of a Spicoli figure from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. They get in; "Keanu" is Facetiming with a lady about my age as they discuss how they ended up...