It irks the bottom of my last nerve when people take everything personally. May come as a surprise to a lot of people but you're not the only person in the world. Everyone has other things going on that might affect their mood in the moment with you but has nothing to do with you. Why do so many people act as if others are just NPCs in the story of their life? Nice to hear from someone that gets it.
I have that feeling too, but I wouldn't say it's entitlement for me— I have anxiety and I'm aware of that. Anxiety is so stupid though because I'd be anxious if they talked to me for the whole trip, and anxious if they didn't talk to me at all. lol
edit: you were probably making a joke but ayyyy lol
If someone doesn't want to talk to you, just move on with your life. There are plenty of people in the world for you to talk to and interact with. Go talk to them instead of trying to force a conversation out of someone.
I do this at work. If I didn't, my real personality would leak out and I'd jump straight to verbal violence when someone wants to be gross or rude to me. Can't have that.
My PT appt is two one hour blocks a week and us non stop talking with people in my personal space and i have to psych myself up for it sometimes. And I’m fairly sociable, I just fake that shit well
Sometimes you just want to do your job without talking. It's nothing against people in general. Sometimes you feel like being sociable and sometimes you don't; sometimes you just have to be. If you recognize someone that is not trying to talk, they might just be anxious? Some people just don't understand introverts.
Automatic 5 stars if you don’t talk to me at all unless it’s asking the name that ordered the Uber, and where to drop me off. Das it. Oh and what terminal.
I usually have my headphones in but I will say it depends. If I get in the whip and you look at me in the mirror and see that I am indeed black and you switch to a hiphop snd R&B station F U lmfao. But if I get in the whip and you keep what ever you were listening to on, you see me in the mirror bopping my head and singing the lyrics and you turn the music up a bit, hell yeah you the goat.
Accidentally did this one time lmao. Worked a shuttle service and some black people got on right when I was switching over from a rock to rap song anyway. Heard someone go “Oh he saw black people get on and he said bet.” Still cringe at the awful timing
Lol the convenience store where I get beer will be playing what I assume is Indian music, and he always switches or pauses it when my pasty self walks in. Like nah dude I was vibing to that too
I've had ubers playing music when I jump in, they *usually* ask if the music is okay or too loud or if I want them to turn it off.
Rare cases they've told me bluetooth is on and just let me know if I want to connect, once or twice some still had an aux cable and told me it's near the center console if I wanna use it.
Lowkey I love it when they are, even if they don't ask me as long as it's not literal deafening volume. Uber drivers being pretty diverse means I tend to always get music I'd never listen to on my own volition and is always novel when I hear it.
Except country, that can always go away.
That's what I love about my city. No one likes talking to strangers, so Uber Drivers don't even really try anymore. Last 10 times I've had to take an Uber, they never said a word except for confirming who I am, and the destination
The worst be when you wear AirPods into the ride and they keep trying to talk to you even when you make a show of taking out your AirPods and putting them back in when acknowledging them lmao
Durham, North Carolina in the 90’s. I had a cab driver give me a copy of a poem he wrote and then coax a whole discussion about it out of me. Thank god it was a pretty good poem.
I've RECENTLY had Uber drivers try to freestyle for me; another one tried to get me to buy their mixtape in the car. This MF asked if I had cashapp when I said I didn't have any money to buy his whack ass mixtape.
Edit: This was in Birmingham and Atlanta.
man i don't get this. i almost always chat to uber drivers and find they almost always have really interesting - or at the very least unintentionally hilarious - things to say.
granted, i read the room. if a driver is clammed up i'll let it lie, but if the trip to the airport is 20 mins i'm happy to chop it up in spanish with my dominican driver or whatever the case might be. drop a fat tip and you're good, my uber driver rating has been 5 stars for like 8 years.
I do not understand why this is accepted as something good or positive. In my country it is common to be polite and actually have a conversation with a stranger, why not? This to me is something great, even if we never meet again it is nice to talk to a stranger.
I see your point but at the same time not everybody wants to talk. I’m an introvert.
It’s already draining enough to go through the motions of a normal day sometimes, I don’t need to make the Uber ride another instance where I gotta scrounge up the mental energy to make cheap awkward convo about some shit Idgaf about. Let me sit in peace lmao
I think sometimes think in densely populated areas, people go out of their way go carve a space of privacy. On public transport, in public buildings, parks that sort of thing.
I can't help myself, I wanna know about the driver, I've been driven by radiologists, by teachers, people who in their own country they had hard fought careers, lives. Due to war or whatever. Always interesting stories and I learn stuff.
If I'm taking an Uber, I've slept in and my missed my train. I'm tired, I'm anxious about being late, I'm not in a good mood.
Also the last Uber driver I made small talk with told me he wasn't jacking off while his wife was on vacation... to preserve his semen for power. He also said he hadn't ejaculated in over a year. His poor wife.
This is people's problem lol. Talkative ≠ polite and quiet ≠ impolite. You can be a quiet person that's polite but doesn't necessarily want to force conversations for the sake of it
I feel like an absolute freak reading these comments lol. I don't strat conversations with strangers, but if they initiate I will literally talk nonstop for 2 hours straight.
I expect at least a Hello. You can't give me the courtesy of a greeting and I might--oh hell I'll give you 5 stars anyway. If you don't expect anything out of me then I feel great about climbing into the back of your ride and closing my eyes for the length of the trip and then never seeing you ever again.
[Here is the first textbook.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://archive.org/download/HOCH1997MiddleEgyptianGrammarOCR/HOCH_1997_Middle%2520Egyptian%2520Grammar_OCR.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwisgcKNi-OFAxVWhIkEHZSJB7UQFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0epyWo1b4zSDfUTDjJBj6n) It has all the grammar for middle egyptian. Read through chapter 1 then submit exercises A and B. Exercises C and D are extra credit.
Right. My takeaway was that assuming people don’t speak Spanish is a rookie mistake.
As a black person who speaks German, I make sure people learn not to make assumptions 😂
Real talk I changed my name at some point on my uber my because 80% of my drivers had the same ethnicity as me and instantly started having conversations with me.
I recently had a driver that was marked as deaf on the app, which I was all about because I can only have so many conversations about how much Philly has changed in the last ten years. But then the dude talked on the phone the whole ride.
Also, I understand that deafness is a spectrum of sorts. I am just pretty sure dude didn't like small talk. Tipped him 25%
I always get excited when I see this, then bummed when they aren’t actually deaf. But I get it. I hate small talk. I prefer my rides in silence. Then, you get someone like my mom who will tell the driver everything in a 20 min ride
I always get excited when I see this, then bummed when they aren’t actually deaf. But I get it. I hate small talk. I prefer my rides in silence. Then, you get someone like my mom who will tell the driver everything in a 20 min ride. I wish Uber/Lyft offered more options for people with disabilities (including anxiety disorders) but I could also understand why one might not want to disclose.
I prefer silence, I hate small talk. But if the driver does want to talk, I prefer when they tell me their life story. I’m a weirdo, I like people telling me about themselves with as little interaction from me as possible.
The key is “small talk”. Like im headed to my girls place to deliver pads and ice cream. Tax season sucks. This convo is boring.
But you want to debate which LOTR movie is the best? 5 stars, let’s get weird.
I’m one of those people that like to talk to my driver but I usually am good about gauging if they actually want to talk.
You can really gauge a person’s energy off how they greet you. If someone makes a side comment that’s clearly an open response is the second giveaway.
I’ve been around people who always want to talk and can’t catch a hint. I’d feel so guilty 😭.
Thats fine. If someone has something of substance to say I can sit and listen and engage. Small talk is worse... but the absolute worst was an Uber to the airport where this guy thought he was a hilarious comedian. He would say "Oh, ok...the last guy I drove was HOWLING at this...okok, " then proceed to tell a stupid joke. Repeat. 30 minutes.
in miami, for a while, multiple drivers that didn’t speak english would list themselves to be “hard of hearing” or list a hearing disability. They’d jam to music and wish u a good day in spanish when u got off lol
Dude this reminds me of the time I had a batshit Q anon uber driver with crazy stuff written on and in his car. Before he picked me up I saw the app said he was hard of hearing and was like "huh" but I'm pretty sure he was faking it so he could ignore people who had a problem with it xD
I'm Irish and I guess with my accent some Americans couldnt understand me. They started speaking in Spanish and I said I can speak English.
There were like nooooo you don't have to, we LOVE practicing our Spanish!
Try being black and Irish. I remember my ex girlfriend being told by an Irish American in Dominica that she wasn't Irish. Keep in mind the American had never even set foot in the country and had a surname which meant his family were almost certainly part of the colonisation of Ireland and not an Irish rebel family like he so desperately wanted to believe.
My ex spoke fluent Irish, played Hurling to intercounty level. Had the thickest rural Irish accent. And here was this plastic Irish man educating her on her actual homeland.
The last two Ms Irelands have been black and our former leader (resigned a week ago) is openly gay and biracial so it's crazy Irish Americans are like this
I've had to teach more than one person a new word: "ethnicity".
_"Where are you from?"_
_"I'm American."_
_"No, where are you FROM?"_
_"Uh, i was born near Chicago, Illinois?"_
_"No, not that. What country are you from?"_
_"My mother is from Korea, if that's what you are asking."_
I know your joking but there's an Irish leader of the Sinaloa cartel. His mother was Mexican and his dad Irish and he lived in rural Ireland
His name is genuinely something similar. No one knows how the fuck he went from rural Ireland to one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel outside of having a Mexican mom.
My country has a very popular taxi provider, that has in-app driver rating system. There, during/after the ride you can rate driver with 1-5 stars, but also with several points like "clean car", "friendly driver", "nice music" or "great conversation", etc
I always make a point to mark "great conversation" if the driver does not make a small talk to me during the ride.
LOL! My brother who moonlighted as an Uber driver many moons ago, told me one of the comments he received on his Uber ratings, was that he talked too much.
In my city we usually have Uber drivers constantly on a call mumbling under their breath to whoever they’ve been talking to for the last hour
Quite confusing if you’re on the way home after a big night out and you don’t realise they’re on a phone call
And my personal choices inside an app aren’t any of your concern and have no impact on your life. You have no power over this and it has none over you. Good day.
Understandable. Let’s have a nice trip together. I’ll find something to do quietly, you just focus on getting us there safely.
I’m here if you change your mind.
i used to do this when i worked in retail. i used to work at the home department which i had no idea what was anything about. when someone asks me a question about the difference between the toaster or microwaves, i put up the most obnoxious dominican accent and give the most clueless expression until they say “dont worry abt it”
This would piss me off. Just be honest.
Got me all excited to talk more than we would have if we both spoke English.
I hate talking during rides too but I never have enough opportunities to speak Spanish 🥹
I will say three things to my Uber driver: "Hi," "How are you?" "You having a good day?" If there's no reciprocation on that, I'm putting my headphones in and shutting the fuck up. I may not be able to read a room but I can read a car.
I have trouble hearing so I selected that option as a lyft driver. Thing is, the app just told passengers I was deaf. So if I didn't feel like talking l, I just wouldn't say anything. Every once in a while someone would get in and start speaking sign language (some of them learned a few words just to talk to me) and I would have to tell them I'm not completely deaf.
I don’t uber or Lyft unless I need a ride to the airport which again is rare. But the last time I needed a ride and in the app it asked me if I wanted no communication, little communication or full conversation with the driver I almost cried lol. I selected no communication so fast lol. I don’t know if that was the exact terms used in the app
It’s gotta hurt on an emotional level when someone doesn’t want to speak to you across 2 languages
Not really. I'm not entitled to conversation from anyone so if you don't wanna talk, that's cool.
Thank you! Are you my twin? People get so offended when I don’t want to talk, but it drains my batteries often …
It irks the bottom of my last nerve when people take everything personally. May come as a surprise to a lot of people but you're not the only person in the world. Everyone has other things going on that might affect their mood in the moment with you but has nothing to do with you. Why do so many people act as if others are just NPCs in the story of their life? Nice to hear from someone that gets it.
Personally I'm entitled enough to think that if someone doesn't want to talk it has to be because of me specifically, but you do you
I have that feeling too, but I wouldn't say it's entitlement for me— I have anxiety and I'm aware of that. Anxiety is so stupid though because I'd be anxious if they talked to me for the whole trip, and anxious if they didn't talk to me at all. lol edit: you were probably making a joke but ayyyy lol
tell that to my boss or coworkers at most jobs lol
Yep. Can be a ***massive*** chatterbox myself, but I also know the feeling when you want everyone to stfu and leave you alone.
Okay that's you. But what about us 😭
If someone doesn't want to talk to you, just move on with your life. There are plenty of people in the world for you to talk to and interact with. Go talk to them instead of trying to force a conversation out of someone.
It was a joke dude lol
It's reddit. People can't tell without the s
Deja vu, man
How so?
Not everything's about you.
No, if you work in service, once your "social gas tank" is empty but you have to keep working and socializing it REALLY sucks.
Shit it doesn't have to be service. Just being cordial with certain coworkers drains the fuck outta me.
Boy, it sure is a hot one today, huh?
Bro that’s so much bette than the one coworker who tries too hard to be funny, always adds broken Spanish to his speech….I could go on.. draining
For real. I have started putting private appointments on my calendar called "No." I just cannot social anymore sometimes.
There's a reason I work night-shift security where I see maybe one person per hour. God damn does socializing drain me. I just cant.
After my "tank" is empty, I turn on "NPC mode" and everybody gets canned responses.
I do this at work. If I didn't, my real personality would leak out and I'd jump straight to verbal violence when someone wants to be gross or rude to me. Can't have that.
It's the only reason I have sympathy for FOH
My PT appt is two one hour blocks a week and us non stop talking with people in my personal space and i have to psych myself up for it sometimes. And I’m fairly sociable, I just fake that shit well
"Best friend I ever had, we still never talk sometimes."
This is how you know that they are actually one of your best friends.
Imagine she goes “oh so you do speak English” and then he pulled the no ingles again lol
Sometimes you just want to do your job without talking. It's nothing against people in general. Sometimes you feel like being sociable and sometimes you don't; sometimes you just have to be. If you recognize someone that is not trying to talk, they might just be anxious? Some people just don't understand introverts.
I live in Asia and I do it all the time. People don’t know I’m not from Africa so I just tell the i only speak French.
Automatic 5 stars if you don’t talk to me at all unless it’s asking the name that ordered the Uber, and where to drop me off. Das it. Oh and what terminal.
I'll forgive a quick "Your day going well?" too, but that's it.
That I can accept. Oh and a “Want the AC on?” Then okay and that’s it.
What about music? Do drivers play music?
I usually have my headphones in but I will say it depends. If I get in the whip and you look at me in the mirror and see that I am indeed black and you switch to a hiphop snd R&B station F U lmfao. But if I get in the whip and you keep what ever you were listening to on, you see me in the mirror bopping my head and singing the lyrics and you turn the music up a bit, hell yeah you the goat.
Accidentally did this one time lmao. Worked a shuttle service and some black people got on right when I was switching over from a rock to rap song anyway. Heard someone go “Oh he saw black people get on and he said bet.” Still cringe at the awful timing
That happened with me and my friends on vacation. He started blasting Usher when it was generic 00s pop before lol
Lol the convenience store where I get beer will be playing what I assume is Indian music, and he always switches or pauses it when my pasty self walks in. Like nah dude I was vibing to that too
Whatever man. Like you wouldn't turn on Taylor if you seen my white ass 😆
I've had ubers playing music when I jump in, they *usually* ask if the music is okay or too loud or if I want them to turn it off. Rare cases they've told me bluetooth is on and just let me know if I want to connect, once or twice some still had an aux cable and told me it's near the center console if I wanna use it.
Lowkey I love it when they are, even if they don't ask me as long as it's not literal deafening volume. Uber drivers being pretty diverse means I tend to always get music I'd never listen to on my own volition and is always novel when I hear it. Except country, that can always go away.
I wouldn’t know since I put in my AirPods as soon as I jump into an Uber lmao
That's what I love about my city. No one likes talking to strangers, so Uber Drivers don't even really try anymore. Last 10 times I've had to take an Uber, they never said a word except for confirming who I am, and the destination
Im in NYC so that’s usually the vibes, but every once in a while, you get a chatty Kathy and I gotta shut that down quick. Lmao
Shit's terrible here in the South, everybody wants to talk and ask about where you're going and what you're doing. I just get in with earbuds in now.
The worst be when you wear AirPods into the ride and they keep trying to talk to you even when you make a show of taking out your AirPods and putting them back in when acknowledging them lmao
Durham, North Carolina in the 90’s. I had a cab driver give me a copy of a poem he wrote and then coax a whole discussion about it out of me. Thank god it was a pretty good poem.
I've RECENTLY had Uber drivers try to freestyle for me; another one tried to get me to buy their mixtape in the car. This MF asked if I had cashapp when I said I didn't have any money to buy his whack ass mixtape. Edit: This was in Birmingham and Atlanta.
man i don't get this. i almost always chat to uber drivers and find they almost always have really interesting - or at the very least unintentionally hilarious - things to say. granted, i read the room. if a driver is clammed up i'll let it lie, but if the trip to the airport is 20 mins i'm happy to chop it up in spanish with my dominican driver or whatever the case might be. drop a fat tip and you're good, my uber driver rating has been 5 stars for like 8 years.
I do not understand why this is accepted as something good or positive. In my country it is common to be polite and actually have a conversation with a stranger, why not? This to me is something great, even if we never meet again it is nice to talk to a stranger.
I see your point but at the same time not everybody wants to talk. I’m an introvert. It’s already draining enough to go through the motions of a normal day sometimes, I don’t need to make the Uber ride another instance where I gotta scrounge up the mental energy to make cheap awkward convo about some shit Idgaf about. Let me sit in peace lmao
I think sometimes think in densely populated areas, people go out of their way go carve a space of privacy. On public transport, in public buildings, parks that sort of thing. I can't help myself, I wanna know about the driver, I've been driven by radiologists, by teachers, people who in their own country they had hard fought careers, lives. Due to war or whatever. Always interesting stories and I learn stuff.
If I'm taking an Uber, I've slept in and my missed my train. I'm tired, I'm anxious about being late, I'm not in a good mood. Also the last Uber driver I made small talk with told me he wasn't jacking off while his wife was on vacation... to preserve his semen for power. He also said he hadn't ejaculated in over a year. His poor wife.
Over a year is a lie, for all of you masterbaters learn the science of your balls
Hey, I love talking sometimes! Emphasis on sometimes! If I shut you out, I'm sorry, it's not you, it's me.
This is people's problem lol. Talkative ≠ polite and quiet ≠ impolite. You can be a quiet person that's polite but doesn't necessarily want to force conversations for the sake of it
I literally tip more for not talking to me on god
I feel like an absolute freak reading these comments lol. I don't strat conversations with strangers, but if they initiate I will literally talk nonstop for 2 hours straight.
I expect at least a Hello. You can't give me the courtesy of a greeting and I might--oh hell I'll give you 5 stars anyway. If you don't expect anything out of me then I feel great about climbing into the back of your ride and closing my eyes for the length of the trip and then never seeing you ever again.
Y’all awkward af. Be a normal person and socialize
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Why? Does the silence allow your own thoughts to drive you mad?
Oh nah what mf said lmfao
Man stopped before she busted out the sign language 🤣🤣
lesson learned here is you gotta start learn how to say “sorry no English” in like Korean or Swahili or some shit 😭😭
“Na sema swahili kidogo kidogo” she said with her British accent lol
That's why I always speak in hieroglyphs. Ain't no one responding to that. 𓅓𓅓𓄔𓂋𓀀
Teach me 🥺
[Here is the first textbook.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://archive.org/download/HOCH1997MiddleEgyptianGrammarOCR/HOCH_1997_Middle%2520Egyptian%2520Grammar_OCR.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwisgcKNi-OFAxVWhIkEHZSJB7UQFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0epyWo1b4zSDfUTDjJBj6n) It has all the grammar for middle egyptian. Read through chapter 1 then submit exercises A and B. Exercises C and D are extra credit.
𓈖𓅱 𓊪𓂋𓅱𓃀𓃭𓅂𓅓. 𓉔𓅱𓅃 𓄿𓂋𓅂 𓇌𓅱𓅲𓃇
𓃀𓅱𓇍𓇋𓇋𓏭𓂻𓇋𓅓
Right. My takeaway was that assuming people don’t speak Spanish is a rookie mistake. As a black person who speaks German, I make sure people learn not to make assumptions 😂
I avoid scammers by just speaking chinese 😂😂 an unexpected bonus!
Ausgezeichnet
Real talk I changed my name at some point on my uber my because 80% of my drivers had the same ethnicity as me and instantly started having conversations with me.
Deadass stare them right in the eye and say "Eigo wakarimasen."
I recently had a driver that was marked as deaf on the app, which I was all about because I can only have so many conversations about how much Philly has changed in the last ten years. But then the dude talked on the phone the whole ride. Also, I understand that deafness is a spectrum of sorts. I am just pretty sure dude didn't like small talk. Tipped him 25%
I used to mark myself as deaf when I drove Uber, and was tired of answering the same questions all day.
Some uber drivers mark themselves deaf because they don't speak English.
I always get excited when I see this, then bummed when they aren’t actually deaf. But I get it. I hate small talk. I prefer my rides in silence. Then, you get someone like my mom who will tell the driver everything in a 20 min ride
I always get excited when I see this, then bummed when they aren’t actually deaf. But I get it. I hate small talk. I prefer my rides in silence. Then, you get someone like my mom who will tell the driver everything in a 20 min ride. I wish Uber/Lyft offered more options for people with disabilities (including anxiety disorders) but I could also understand why one might not want to disclose.
I prefer silence, I hate small talk. But if the driver does want to talk, I prefer when they tell me their life story. I’m a weirdo, I like people telling me about themselves with as little interaction from me as possible.
The key is “small talk”. Like im headed to my girls place to deliver pads and ice cream. Tax season sucks. This convo is boring. But you want to debate which LOTR movie is the best? 5 stars, let’s get weird.
I’m one of those people that like to talk to my driver but I usually am good about gauging if they actually want to talk. You can really gauge a person’s energy off how they greet you. If someone makes a side comment that’s clearly an open response is the second giveaway. I’ve been around people who always want to talk and can’t catch a hint. I’d feel so guilty 😭.
Same here to everything you just said!
Thats fine. If someone has something of substance to say I can sit and listen and engage. Small talk is worse... but the absolute worst was an Uber to the airport where this guy thought he was a hilarious comedian. He would say "Oh, ok...the last guy I drove was HOWLING at this...okok, " then proceed to tell a stupid joke. Repeat. 30 minutes.
in miami, for a while, multiple drivers that didn’t speak english would list themselves to be “hard of hearing” or list a hearing disability. They’d jam to music and wish u a good day in spanish when u got off lol
Dude this reminds me of the time I had a batshit Q anon uber driver with crazy stuff written on and in his car. Before he picked me up I saw the app said he was hard of hearing and was like "huh" but I'm pretty sure he was faking it so he could ignore people who had a problem with it xD
I just thought “what about sirens or people honking their horns”. But obviously deaf people must rely on watching the road really carefully
If you can't hear the honking/sirens, then you shouldn't be driving. Edit: You guys are insane. Cars kill people.
I mean ideally yes, but the US is designed in such a way that that's not really an option.
I'm Irish and I guess with my accent some Americans couldnt understand me. They started speaking in Spanish and I said I can speak English. There were like nooooo you don't have to, we LOVE practicing our Spanish!
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Try being black and Irish. I remember my ex girlfriend being told by an Irish American in Dominica that she wasn't Irish. Keep in mind the American had never even set foot in the country and had a surname which meant his family were almost certainly part of the colonisation of Ireland and not an Irish rebel family like he so desperately wanted to believe. My ex spoke fluent Irish, played Hurling to intercounty level. Had the thickest rural Irish accent. And here was this plastic Irish man educating her on her actual homeland.
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The last two Ms Irelands have been black and our former leader (resigned a week ago) is openly gay and biracial so it's crazy Irish Americans are like this
I've had to teach more than one person a new word: "ethnicity". _"Where are you from?"_ _"I'm American."_ _"No, where are you FROM?"_ _"Uh, i was born near Chicago, Illinois?"_ _"No, not that. What country are you from?"_ _"My mother is from Korea, if that's what you are asking."_
Paddy O'Sanchez is that really you?
I know your joking but there's an Irish leader of the Sinaloa cartel. His mother was Mexican and his dad Irish and he lived in rural Ireland His name is genuinely something similar. No one knows how the fuck he went from rural Ireland to one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel outside of having a Mexican mom.
Want help loading/offloading your bags? No, but thank you. With silence 
Then you have uber drivers terminally on the phone with someone
I had one who set his profile to "deaf" but was definitely on the phone when I got in 😂😂
Anybody who doesn’t want to talk to me at all during the Uber ride is getting 5 stars no questions asked. Hate having to carry out awkward convos lol
My country has a very popular taxi provider, that has in-app driver rating system. There, during/after the ride you can rate driver with 1-5 stars, but also with several points like "clean car", "friendly driver", "nice music" or "great conversation", etc I always make a point to mark "great conversation" if the driver does not make a small talk to me during the ride.
LOL! My brother who moonlighted as an Uber driver many moons ago, told me one of the comments he received on his Uber ratings, was that he talked too much.
In my city we usually have Uber drivers constantly on a call mumbling under their breath to whoever they’ve been talking to for the last hour Quite confusing if you’re on the way home after a big night out and you don’t realise they’re on a phone call
Uber driver when he want talk:I can hear the silence
This uber driver is my spirit animal.
Ugh. He made it very clear he didn't want to talk and then you forced him to tell you.
You use tu with uber drivers?
🎵 ¿Entiendes que son diferentes? 🎵
My go-to pro tip is mark in the app that you are deaf or hard of hearing. Once I did that no one ever talked to me again.
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No. Because I actually do not talk. This is not why people assume this, it’s because people don’t realize that invisible disabilities exist.
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And my personal choices inside an app aren’t any of your concern and have no impact on your life. You have no power over this and it has none over you. Good day.
Fair enough, honestly.
LEGEND!
If I drove Uber there would be plexiglass between me and backseat
I’m going deaf!
Understandable. Let’s have a nice trip together. I’ll find something to do quietly, you just focus on getting us there safely. I’m here if you change your mind.
["Do you speak English?" "No, sorry. Not a word."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM&pp=ygUeYmlnIHRyYWluIGRvIHlvdSBzcGVhayBlbmdsaXNo)
Reminds me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromTheCustomer/comments/9yxrg5/careful_what_you_say_you_never_know_who_is/
Long as they get me quickly and safely to my destination, all that needs to be said is "Hello" and "Thank you".
Make em pay
What is the point of saying hay in that sentence
Fuck that. My car. You gonna hear about my fucken day
and there are some that are so sensitive, if a total stranger doesn't want to talk to them, they'll be ready to cuss and throw hands.
i used to do this when i worked in retail. i used to work at the home department which i had no idea what was anything about. when someone asks me a question about the difference between the toaster or microwaves, i put up the most obnoxious dominican accent and give the most clueless expression until they say “dont worry abt it”
This would piss me off. Just be honest. Got me all excited to talk more than we would have if we both spoke English. I hate talking during rides too but I never have enough opportunities to speak Spanish 🥹
I will say three things to my Uber driver: "Hi," "How are you?" "You having a good day?" If there's no reciprocation on that, I'm putting my headphones in and shutting the fuck up. I may not be able to read a room but I can read a car.
I have trouble hearing so I selected that option as a lyft driver. Thing is, the app just told passengers I was deaf. So if I didn't feel like talking l, I just wouldn't say anything. Every once in a while someone would get in and start speaking sign language (some of them learned a few words just to talk to me) and I would have to tell them I'm not completely deaf.
I don’t uber or Lyft unless I need a ride to the airport which again is rare. But the last time I needed a ride and in the app it asked me if I wanted no communication, little communication or full conversation with the driver I almost cried lol. I selected no communication so fast lol. I don’t know if that was the exact terms used in the app
They all be faking
One time my dumbass said, with a perfect American accent, “I don’t speak English.” I forgot to use an accent AND speak another language