My First Trip...

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I remember the first pick-up request I received...

I had just finished my new-driver orientation in Southern Indiana, across the bridge from Louisville KY. I was really excited to get started, so I decided to go online for work on the way home from my orientation. I was headed south on Bardstown Road, getting closer to home, when... BEEP! ...

My first request came thru to my Uber-provided iphone4s! All of a sudden, I got a little bit nervous! This was my first trip! I wasn't sure how it would go! ...but the phone was beeping, so...

I touched the beeping screen, and I accepted the request. The app was pretty well user friendly... I could see the address of the pick-up location; I saw the GPS route to the location clearly mapped out; and I had the first name and passenger rating (very cool feature) of the guy I was going to pick up... it was all pretty much right there on the screen!

So, I made my way down Bardstown Road to the pick-up location. Two guys hopped in... one in the back seat, one next to me up front. As we got on the way to a local hotel... one of those right next to Louisville International Airport... I discovered that the two guys were comedians... not just two guys trying to be funny... actual paid comedians!

The guy up front explained that he and the guy in the back seat had flown in from L.A. earlier that week. They were part of a group of, like, 40 comedians! They were doing a gig at the local comedy shop called The Laughing Derby. These two had done their routines earlier that day, and they were flying back to California the next morning...

I think they probably did well, because the guy up front was hilarious! He very effectively denied the existence of any appeal to life in Louisville KY, causing my audible laughter... and without offending this Louisville native who was driving him down the road!

I dropped them at the hotel. As I recall, they gave me a tip! And, as I drove away, I remember thinking... yep, I think I'm gonna like this Uber thing.