With the approaching holidays we all need to do a little more. And yes I can hear the bullshit throwers ranting about how we should not go into debt for the holiday or over do things just for the idea of giving. And to that I say, fuck you and please go be poor some place else. And I am not throwing shade to people that are actually poor and struggling. I know all about the poor life! I am talking to the trolls that always want to shit in people’s corn flakes to make themselves feel better about their shity lives.
I love giving more than receiving, it’s fun! So I am going to work more this month so I can do just that. I am lucky that I am able to work an extra job to do this. My Lyft Life helps with many of our bills and one of them is always Christmas shopping. I did take a week off for Thanksgiving because…..I can. That is part of why I like doing Lyft. You get out of it what you put into it, you want money….earn it. You want to take time off….earn it. You need a break…earn it. You are your own boss, your car is your business. I put the good gas in my car, I get oil changes regularly and currently saving for those good tires! And just a little insight to this job, I average about $20 an hour.
Another fun part about this job is that it takes me all over the place. The other night I ended up in north bumble fuck Brentwood, Ca. This is about an hour drive from home, straight out into the fucking hills. Country lanes with no street lights, farms so far out in the distance you cannot see their lights, and fog, lots and lots of fog….well at least that night there was.
I picked up a rider in Dublin and their destination was a 45 ride north to Brentwood. I am thankful this rider was one of those talkative types. We rambled on about all kinds of things; from social issues of the local crack heads to the bad orange man. Nothing overly political, more comical than anything. So the ride up went by super fast, but she was to be my last ride of the night. It was getting late and I earned my punch out time.
The ride home was not all that bad, I had 90’s on the 9 pumping from the stereo (nothing says road trip like Paula Abdul early 90’s!)
But the ride into the country was wild! It was foggy and visibility was very poor. I could not see more that 6 feet in front of me. I was using the GPS, the road lines and the rumble strips to help me navigate this twisted country road. And to make things interesting I was probably the only one being cautious with my driving! At various times the road became two lanes (of which I could not actually see!) and people would fly past me at speed…what the actual fuck! I kept to the right and just let them barrel on down, it was not going to be me in a ditch or worse.
This went on for about 10 minutes then the fog cleared up, it was only foggy in that one particular area. I later found out that stretch of road has accidents on it everyday because people seem to think physics do not apply to them because of their fancy car and all weather tires!
I did have to drive back through the pea soup London style fog so it was back to the slow and steady, and yes there were more daredevils on the way back! I was almost expecting to see head lights off to the side of the road, but to be honest if they had gone off the road no one would have been able to see them!
This week was to be a good week for me with my earnings, let’s hope for the same for the coming weeks. I have some vacation time coming up in about two weeks and have no plans on driving during that time. I will do my part to make the money I need, that car payment isn’t going to pay itself! I want time off, and I am out on the hustle to earn it!