Uch! Just back from an attempted doggy-walk. That was a serious FAIL!!!
The air is thick with moisture….literally. Feels almost like you’re walking through Jell-O out there. No exaggeration!
The human needs to make a grocery-store run…but that ain’t gunna happen today, not without a car. My dear son, as you recall, managed to confiscate the Dog Chariot, so I am stuck here in the ‘Hood, on foot, with no viable means of transport other than paying for a cab.
No, don’t even ask about the public (heh!) “transportation” here.
An Uber driver dwells across the street…but no, I’m not about to trot over to his house and lean on his doorbell at 7:30 in the morning.
You can arrange someone to deliver groceries. But that’s a pretty hilarious joke! Americans don’t eat decent food and they don’t cook. So when you ask some poor soul to pick up a pile of groceries on a list, you get… Well… Something between har har and ugh!
This leaves me with having to walk six or eight blocks (each way!) to the Albertson’s or the Sprouts or the Fry’s, or else trying to mooch a ride with a neighbor. Or paying through the schnozola to get a cabby to drive me back and forth.
At any rate, I ain’t about to walk to any of the local stores through this grim weather. So…hope for the best in the freezer! 😀
You don’t get an Uber by contacting the driver directly. You get it by using the app. This allows any available driver to claim the ride. The only ones who respond will already be working, so you don’t have to worry, for example, that you’re waking someone up at 5 am.
The app will tell you before you agree to go forward what the fare will be. They use dynamic pricing, so the same trip will vary, sometimes by a lot.
Download the app and play around with it a bit. Lyft is another nationwide ride share app, and there may be one that is local to your area. The taxi drivers in my metro banded together and created their own app to compete with the national ones, so check.
Alas, I don’t have a device that uses an app. No one will teach me how to use it…the younger set being convinced that since I didn’t leap to grab such a thing when they first came out, I must be too stupid to learn how to use one now.