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Elegant-Analyst57 , Wikimedia.Commons Report

One of the people whose story you can find on this list is u/thisiskerry. That's the driver who picked up a lady going through withdrawals. Luckily, we managed to get in contact with the Redditor and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us.

"I've been a driver for a little over 2 years," u/thisiskerry told Bored Panda. "I really like driving in general, and so far I do actually like this job."

They said whether or not a group of passengers are talkative depends on the relationship between them. "I like to give people their energetic space unless they want to engage. All I can say is that everyone changes their personality based on the company they are around. For the most part, people seem comfortable chatting in my car," u/thisiskerry explained.

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) My best ride was when I took Michael Fassbender from Los Angeles Airport to Beverly Hills, he treated me to In-N-Out Burger, and we sang karaoke all the way to his hotel because he confessed that his dream as a teen was to be a rock star. Coolest guy ever!

Final score:

240points

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Cat on a bike 3 years ago

😍

25points

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once drove two medical professionals, and one of them was talking to his colleague about the time he was 'kindly kidnapped' out of the hospital by two guys who took him to a mansion outside of the city. There, they asked him to examine the heart condition of a man who seemed to be a local mafia boss who was wanted by the law. They somehow provided him with all the tools and help, and made him operate on the boss. Then they finally let him go, paid him with a big sum of cash, and said they would contact him again for anything else. He said it was one of the scariest, yet most interesting experiences in his life.

jimmynaz97k , mahdi rezaei Report

Final score:

206points

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Anne 3 years ago

That's oddly kind for a kidnapping.. maybe he should just give his mobile number so they can contact him without the fuss. He is a doctor and he is treating a human, no matter the background of the human

70points

When there's only one passenger, however, you never know if they want to talk or not.

"I would say about 45% of single passengers strike up a conversation with me. Most do not. Sometimes I strike up a conversation. I try to remain energetically sensitive to the situation and the person/people in the vehicle. Most talkative people are drunk, depressed, angry, insecure, or outgoing."

"[Ridesharing] apps are changing life as we know it and offering access to the world for people who have been denied it due to disabilities, financial constraints, and other limitations," u/thisiskerry added. "It's nice to offer my time and vehicle to be of service but please respect [this interaction] for what it is — a way for us to help each other out. When it stops being enjoyable for me I will walk away, and reserve that right for all of us."

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once picked up a well-known celebrity from a strip club. His drop-off location was in an affluent neighborhood in the foothills, and as I pulled into the driveway, a half-naked, middle-aged woman wearing lingerie was standing by the garage. He said, 'This is close enough,' so I stopped about 20 yards from the woman. Then she cracked a whip and pointed to the ground at her feet, and this dude got out on his hands and knees — in his Armani suit! — and started crawling toward her. Then she cracked the whip again, pointed at me, and said, 'You're next.' I was not next. I am married.

Scuta44 , ron-lach Report

Final score:

174points

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Jacin Larkwell 3 years ago

"I was not next." Best part, right there 😆

70points

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) Used to uber on the side, here in Ottawa. Honestly, one could surveil both business and governement here while driving an Uber if they wanted to. You could run 3 drivers and get intelligence about just a ton of things happening night and day. I definitely heard a ton of things, but the one that got me was about businesses closing and firing every one of its 200 employees months before it happened. It sucked for me when that one hit the news. I was there when they made the decision. Sweet things happened too. A woman had a fun dinner with her best friend and got in the passenger side first and said to me "watch this, I just found out I'm pregnant today, going home to tell my husband, but she's going to me the first to know." "After me. . . .?" "Oh my god! That's right, you're the first I've told. I'm totally freaking out right now." "It's cool. No big deal." Anyway, 5 min later they're joking about it with me and she asks me my name. I tell her and she's like "It was between that and Andrew for the middle name. This is a sign! It has to me (my name)!" "What if it's a girl?" "She'll be a badass with a male middle name like Michael Burnham." Coolest, sweetest conversation of my life.

Growth-Beginning , peterfazekas Report

Final score:

157points

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Beast 3 years ago

awww💖💖

23points

While taxis have been around since the late 1800s, Uber quickly began taking over a share of the car-service market after its launch in 2010, followed by competitors like Lyft in 2012.

In New York City, for example, yellow taxi cabs have long been the transportation of choice for locals and tourists, but these apps are offering consumers more choices than ever to get where they need to go.

As a result, taxis seem to be steadily losing customers.

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) one I've heard

"There was an old Vietnamese man that goes into my car and he told me about his life. He told how he got drafted into the Vietcong just as the war ended so he didn't see any combat. He told me sometimes in life you get lucky and other times you don't. I dropped him off at a cancer center."

Leondas04 , Mark Cruz Report

Final score:

156points

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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

That one's straight out of a movie. A sad one.

50points

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I worked for Uber Black in Los Angeles, and once I picked up a customer around midnight from a flight from Mexico. He had two stops, and at the first, he waited for some 'compadres' who loaded five duffle bags in my SUV. Well, come to find out the second stop was in San Jose, a six-hour drive! After a $2,500 fare and a $400 tip, I never dared asked what was in the those bags!

Elegant-Analyst57 , Erol Ahmed Report

Final score:

130points

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Steve Barnett 3 years ago

Probably tennis equipment. They were certainly involved in some sort of racket.

213points

Reddit user u/Jimmynaz97K also agreed to talk about their experience with us. They're the driver who gave a lift to those two medical professionals.

"I have [worked in Uber for] about a year until my country's law changed and it became illegal for a common citizen to be a driver (only UberBlack is allowed now) and to be fair, I really liked that job because I enjoy driving and long trips are awesome," they told Bored Panda.

Much like u/thisiskerry, they said that not every passenger they carried was talkative. "Some couples, for example, would just stay there in silence using their phones. Friends would often chat about sports and rarely, like in the case of my comment, they talked about secrets or private matters."

u/Jimmynaz97K allowed their passengers to sit wherever they wanted and they knew that folks who chose the front seat wouldn't mind chatting. On the other hand, if they got in the back, normally they'd like to be with their thoughts. "I rarely used to speak first, unless saying things like 'I'm taking a shorter path' or 'we can go by the panoramic route if that pleases you.'"

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) My uncle was a cab driver in LAt, and one day, he picked up two guys who were discussing a murder they were going to commit. After a while, they began discussing whether they should also kill the driver because he heard them talking about the plan and could identify them. They eventually decided not to, but that was the day my uncle stopped being a cab driver.

BugBog , tim-samuel Report

Final score:

123points

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Francis 3 years ago

why would you discuss this in a cab? you won't discuss this in a cafe or in the doctors waiting room! jeezus

50points

legionofsquirrel , r. nial bradshaw Report

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) That he secretly hated all white people because they were all secretly Trump loving MAGA Nazis bent on destroying the world through some sort of capitalistic control thing that I can't even begin to remember because it was so damn outlandish did I just kind of tuned him out.

This was for a 14-minute ride.

We are both white.

Final score:

110points

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Pungent Sauce 3 years ago

I drive delivery for my job, but there’s a home base with a few guys in the shop, and the more I hear them talk about non-white people and who the “real” (US) President is, the less time I try to spend there…..

42points

foodpoisoningsucks , terren in VirginiaFollow Report

What u/Jimmynaz97K briefly touched upon is that Uber has had a tough time in Europe.

Earlier this month, the company lost yet another suit as the court in Amsterdam ruled workers who ferry passengers using the app in the Netherlands are covered by local collective labor law.

The legal relationship between Uber and its drivers meets all of the characteristics of an employment contract, the court explained in its judgment. Uber must apply the Collective Labor Agreement for Taxi Transport to protect drivers, allowing them in some cases to claim overdue salaries. Uber was also ordered to pay the local labor union, FNV, 50,000 euros ($59,000) in compensation for failing to comply with the agreement.

Uber said it will appeal the decision.

"We are disappointed with this decision because we know that the overwhelming majority of drivers wish to remain independent," Maurits Schönfeld, Uber's general manager, Northern Europe said in a statement. "Drivers don't want to give up their freedom to choose if, when, and where to work."

Uber is fighting labor unions, civil rights groups, and even Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. over benefits for its drivers too. Recently, it has also lost a lawsuit over whether its drivers are workers in the UK, forcing the company to formally recognize a labor union that will give its drivers greater collective bargaining powers.

Still, if we take a step back before the pandemic, a 2019 report by Wired found that some 106,000 for-hire vehicles were licensed to operate in NYC, a 60% increase from 2016. So chances are we're going to see more similar posts in the future!

#10

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) A 50-year-old man I was driving once admitted to me that he doesn't know how to cook and doesn't have the time to do it, so he sneaks out late at night to get leftovers from his mother's house.

Final score:

102points

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Andy Acceber 3 years ago

If you have time to sneak out to get your 70-year-old mother's leftovers, you have time to learn how to cook.

106points

Nikole 3 years ago

There might be more going on... I mean, he's taking them from his mom rather than ordering something like a big boy.

1point

Brad Hertzler 2 years ago

It's not that hard. I've been cooking 37 years, since I was 12!!!

0points

John C 3 years ago

or just swing by Taco Bell instead

0points

Muff_Fluff 3 years ago

Some people can’t cook for their Life

0points

Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago

I bet his mom knows and leaves leftovers for him on purpose. You never stop being a mom no matter how old your kids are.

23points

Yuki Li 3 years ago

Mother now thinks she has dementia and son plays along because he is ashamed of his inability.

7points

Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

Meanwhile, his mom thinks she's losing her mind. Food goes missing. Containers too.

7points

Eric Johansen 3 years ago (edited)

Yeah dude learn how to cook it doesn't take a lot of intelligence to read directions on a box.

6points

Martine 3 years ago

Absolutely! If you can read, you can cook.

2points

Otter 3 years ago

If Mom wasn't giving him anything but leftovers, she's sick of this s**t.

5points

Deborah Barron Brown 3 years ago

My husband doesn't know how to cook and I worry about him if I were to die first. He does know how to use the microwave and basic things but it isn't enough.

4points

Ella Romania 3 years ago (edited)

I promise you if you die first, he won't starve lol.

1point

SobyKay 3 years ago

Taught myself how to cook, taught my husband how to cook - and also to clean b/c he was pretty useless for those things when we first got married. Over a decade later and he's a great help at home.

0points

Andy Acceber 3 years ago

You should not be doing 100% of the cooking in your relationship. Your husband is an adult. Eating is essential. To start, ask him to make dinner once a week. Tell him you need a break. Tell him he needs to learn. Both are true. Let him start with grilling or making premade pasta and canned sauce -- something easy. Make sure to compliment whatever he makes; remember, he's new at this. But for both of your sakes, just get him to start cooking. He needs to learn.

0points

SuperChicken 3 years ago

Same with my husband.

0points

Juds Conne 3 years ago

If you have the inclination to hire a car and driver you could just do it earlier in the day and pick up carryout.

3points

Honu 3 years ago

Yes. Or just go to the grocery store and get some prepared food. There are frozen meals, and lots of supermarkets have things like whole roasted chickens, salads, soups. You can find some decently healthy options for less than you'd pay for a restaurant meal.

2points

Jessica Zhou 3 years ago

I feel sad... for his mother.

2points

Mike Beck 3 years ago

You can prep many, many meals in 15 minutes and just let it slow-cook all day or simmer for 30 minutes. Most likely, he just likes letting mommy do all his cooking. And laundry..?

1point

SobyKay 3 years ago

There is no excuse to not know how to cook. I was never taught how to cook, I had to teach myself. There's such a thing called recipes and they are quite abundant.

0points

#11

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I've worked for Uber, and once a clearly intoxicated passenger told me she should have married her brother-in-law because her husband had a tiny d**k and was much less handsome. She had married her husband because he was richer. I hope she doesn't remember she told me that! She's probably mortified to this day if she does.

HeberMonteiro , MAURO CATEB Report

Final score:

96points

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Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago

I doubt she's forgotten she told you and I doubt she regrets it. A lot of times people have something they want to say but nobody they can say it to so they say it to a complete stranger and feel better for it. I remember going for a drive from San Francisco and planning to return that night. I picked up a hitch-hiker and drove him to Canada and spilled my guts the entire way. He just sat and listened. Then I drove to New York instead of going back home.

49points

#12

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I drove a guy who told me he was cheating on his wife with his coke dealer, and that it had been going on for 25 years. I don't know what impresses me more: a 25-year affair or a 25-year coke habit! He also gave me a detailed description of how good his dealer, who was a woman, was in bed

efgfgewfgw , Viktor Bystrov Report

Final score:

96points

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Kate 3 years ago

25 years and he thinks his wife doesn't know? LOL Wonder who she's cheating with!

70points

callme_nostradumbass , Erik Drost Report

#13

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once had a passenger who was really upset that he was only a convenient 'side-piece' instead of the secret 'boyfriend' of an NFL player.

Final score:

90points

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Suz66 3 years ago

Dude don't be a secret side-piece or boyfriend to anyone.

10points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#14

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) Former Uber driver... Picked up a very well -dressed lady from one side of town heading to a very rich neighborhood on the other side of town.

During the ride, she made a series of calls and it became clear she was a call girl with quite a few customers. It also became clear I was delivering her to her biggest client, an accident and injury attorney known for extremely extensive advertising in my local area.

Anybody around here would know his name. And he was supposed to be married and the whole family man type.

Ah. Well. My passenger indicated otherwise.

His house was a very nice mansion. Law must pay well.

fourflatyres , Rolando Garrido Report

Final score:

89points

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Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago

Criminal attorneys ARE paid VERY well. You are only as guilty as how much money you have.....

21points

#15

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once gave a ride to two women who spent the whole ride debating whether or not the man whose house I'd just picked them up from had killed their friend, who died in his kitchen earlier that day. The woman — who lived with him — was in her early 40s, and according to his report, she dropped dead unexpectedly after an afternoon of yard work and bike-riding. Her best friends weren't having it.

nursewilling , plhnk Report

Final score:

86points

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Lawless 3 years ago

Hope they figured it out

20points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#16

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) When my dad was driving a taxi in the '80s, he said he once picked up Meat Loaf from a bar with a giant stuffed alligator. While they were stopped at a red light, Meat Loaf offered him coke from a hidden pouch in the alligator that was stuffed with cocaine and cash.

spidertoadthe4th , Wikimedia.Commons Report

Final score:

72points

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Steve Barnett 3 years ago

Careful, possible libel.

16points

#17

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) My taxi driver buddy called it The Limo Syndrome - people talking loudly to each other about a business deal to impress the driver.

oddlotz , Lexi Anderson Report

Final score:

69points

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Queen fhk 3 years ago

Yep! that should be a thing"limo syndrome"

17points

#18

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once drove some people planning a murder at the location where I was going to drop them off. I told them to get out and left them.

Master7RealBodyNMind , Dan Gold Report

Final score:

66points

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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago

This is what happens when employment finds a loop hole around regulations. Of course taxi drivers should be trained how to behave if they hear a crime being plotted in their cab, it's going to happen. They should be trained how to respond if a crime is being committed in their cab (e.g. sexual assault), they should be trained how to react if they witness a crime outside their cab, or are the victim of a crime. There are many reasons different industries are regulated and this is one of them.

59points

#19

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once drove three teenage girls, and at the end of the trip, I knew everything about their friends' sexual life — who had slept with whom, with or without a condom, who had infected whom with chlamydia, and so on, ad nauseam.

vidarfe , johncobb Report

Final score:

59points

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

That one was truly add nausea.

42points

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#20

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I once drove a guy who said he'd gambled away his house payment for the month and he didn't know how to tell his wife. I also drove a pregnant girl going to a side-piece's house for the night, saying it might be the last time for a while.

Revolutionary-Cod444 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

58points

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Rocky Mom 3 years ago

Ewh.

17points

#21

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) Used to drive for Uber. Would chill at my condo, wait for a ride to ding, pick up. One ding I got was really close. A pick up scheduled from my own complex. I pop down, turn on the car, pull it out. My neighbor walks down - girl in her 20s. She’s with her friend, and spent a significant portion of the ride talking about how she’s cheating on her boyfriend.

NeonRedHerring , skitterphoto Report

Final score:

58points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

I'd let the boyfriend know.

5points

#22

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) I heard two guys talking freely about their scam operation and going into the specifics of how to get the most out of it. I can’t remember what the scam was, just that it had to do with cards and that it had gotten them around $20 million!

lawsuy , 401(K) 2012 Report

Final score:

57points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

He should have recorded them and then drop them off at a police station

20points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#23

Taxi And Uber Drivers Are Sharing The Craziest Things They Weren't Supposed To Hear While On The Job (23 Stories) On the flip side of the coin, an Uber drive once told me and my significant other that she had been the victim of satanic ritual abuse as a child. She was nice enough, but clearly a little unbalanced, and either looking for attention or a legitimate product of all that Satanic Panic nonsense back in the day.

mushroom-cat , Matheus Bertelli Report

Final score:

55points

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Jonny Man 3 years ago

Ritual abuse has happened and still does - alas, it is not limited merely to satanists. There are f****d up secret societies whose rites would make your blood boil if you knew about them, and some of the most outwardly respectable people are in on it. The abuse is just the tip of the iceberg of the web of sickening deceit that lies just below the surface of this corrupt society.

14points