Uber?
October 24th, 2017 at 1:27:39 PM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4941 |
I agree, but hopefully it will keep some of the drunks and pot smokers from driving. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
October 24th, 2017 at 1:50:14 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
EB an old taxi guy like you must have made lots of money delivery booze to people. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
October 24th, 2017 at 1:54:07 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Once in a blue moon, saw it a couple times in 10 years. The average person just doesn't have that kind of money to waste. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 28th, 2017 at 11:19:29 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Another W African driver yesterday. Seemed really pissed we weren't going on a longer trip. $12 bucks worth is plenty long for me. He kept looking at his phone and then trying to turn the wrong way. He had no idea how to use the GPS and he would barely listen to me tell him the way to go. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 28th, 2017 at 12:07:39 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Once in a while we will order pizza delivered. I never really considered it decadent, but maybe, if it is really really good pizza. The tip we give the driver isn't much more than what it would cost me in fuel to go get it. Sometimes we will even order Chinese food delivered, when we have company and no one feels like cooking up a several course meal and doing the cleaning afterwards. If it is decadent, we have earned it. On the other hand, I don't think it's right for McD's or Taco Bell to be able to accept EBT. So we each have a gripe. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
October 28th, 2017 at 12:19:05 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Having a pizza place deliver and having a taxi do it are two different things. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 28th, 2017 at 12:58:53 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Yeah, the taxi route sounds really expensive and like already said, that would make fast food even yuckier. I look at fast food as punishment. Homemade is most always the best. When I was a kid, going out to eat was something special. I do realize now how well my mother prepared food. But even fast food was better? The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
October 28th, 2017 at 11:47:50 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Taxi and motorbike delivery services are booming in the USA, the UK and Europe. You can make any arguments here that you want but its obvious that the most significant people are voting with their wallets. Restaurants no longer need their own delivery services. |
October 31st, 2017 at 7:40:07 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | All the news outlets are reporting the terrorist who mowed down all the people in NYC is an Uber driver. Given some of the drivers I've had since Ap, I totally believe it. They have no practically no vetting process at all. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 1st, 2017 at 2:06:06 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Its the equivalent of saying someone is a day laborer or a temp agency worker. Its meaningless. |