Last night... New Year's Eve... I had the single most interesting trip in my short career with Uber...
I got the pick up request from someone in Jeffersonville IN... it was three o'clock in the morning. When the guy hopped in, he said "just head toward New Albany IN."
En route to New Albany, the passenger revealed the nature of our 'mission'...
Somewhere in New Albany... near Hazelwood Avenue... close to a cemetery... there was a young lady walking around outside... in the cold (not dressed for weather), in a somewhat drunken state... waiting for my passenger to come pick her up.
The young lady had been at a party, but her friends (who had taken her to the party) had left her there... and several guys at the party had started to harass the girl... so she left the party.
Our mission, should we choose to accept it... was to find this wandering soul, and rescue her from a very intimidating... maybe dangerous... situation.
Well, we found her... the hard way. My guy's phone had just died during the trip... so we could not call the girl. So our search included...
multiple trips around two different cemeteries...
a trip to the gas station, in a failed attempt to buy a phone charger...
the successful purchase of a $3.95 city map from the same gas station...
an uncomfortable confrontation with three intimidating guys
(not me, my passenger... but I feel like I would have had his back... lol)...
and one lost smart phone (the young lady's)..
But we found her!
After that, we took the young lady home to Memphis IN (did you notice how many different towns I have mentioned?). Then, I returned my original passenger to his home in Jeffersonville. By the way, he was just a friend to the girl... someone she could call on if she needed him...
Last night she needed him.
The guy had a few drinks earlier (hence his need to have me do the driving). And he was headed back home to get some sleep. The total trip was 56 miles... 1 hour, 56 minutes... and a $90.25 fare.
When he got out of the car, the guy asked me if I was done for the night, or if I would take on more pick up requests...
I said, "I'm done. I don't think I can take much more emotionally this morning..."
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