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Rides. Rants. Repeat. 🐻💨 Coco the Rideshare Bear here — hauling stories, spilling tea, and dodging traffic one wild fare at a time.
Twin Cities mayhem guaranteed. 🚦😂 Before I became a ride-share driver, I was a creative whirlwind, transitioning from a drum & bugle corps show designer and choreographer to an underground house music rave DJ. Then life took an unexpected turn, and I found myself in the corporate world, working a 9-to-5 in the finance division of a bank. After spending 20 years climbing the corporate ladder from an entry-level Account Manager to Operations Manager, the COVID-19 pandemic left me unemployed, just after I had refinanced my mortgage for a $60,000 home improvement. The situation was further complicated when George Floyd was murdered just a couple of miles from my home, turning my neighborhood into a focal point for the ensuing riots. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, I faced a traumatic experience that left me with PTSD and deep depression. It took four years of therapy and healing to regain my strength. When I was ready to reenter the workforce, I discovered gig economy work as a ride-share driver. This role allows me to set my own schedule while gradually rebuilding my confidence. Join me as I share my journey, the stories I encounter with passengers, and the rants that come along the way. It’s a new chapter filled with resilience, creativity, and a whole lot of adventure! 🚕💨
Happy Back-to-School Day, Twin Cities! 🎒✏️
We’re off to a strong start: several kids without their required car seats and two unaccompanied minors.
Apparently some parents missed orientation, so here’s your friendly reminder: your Uber driver is not a school bus, babysitter, or substitute car seat. 🤣
Welcome back, everybody. It’s gonna be a long year. 🚕🐻💀
It takes all kinds. 🤣
I’m sorry the liquor store doesn’t open for another three minutes, old man. And I’m sorry I apparently personally caused the construction nightmare at Franklin and Nicollet.
Drink your juice, Sheldon. 🧃
Shout out to the drunk couple screaming at each other… who thought they were getting in my car with him in sweat shorts and nothing else… 😌 no shoes, no shirt, no service. byeeee.
🚙🐻✌️
Today’s passengers included:
• a woman who put in the wrong destination, refused to update it to where she actually wanted to go…
→ then threw a tantrum when I ended the ride exactly where she booked it…
→ couldn’t update the destination…
but had no problem finding the 1-star button 🫠
• a woman with four kids (five passengers total)
→ in the smallest/cheapest ride category that caps at four… and at least two needed car seats 🙃
• alley pickup pin guy
→ set his pin behind the house, so I went… behind the house…
then threw a tantrum because I wasn’t out front 🤦♂️
• 20th floor caller 📞
→ yelling at me while I sat at the curb waiting because she apparently didn’t like the spot I was idling waiting for her to grace me with her presence 20 minutes after she booked the ride… 🙄
• a morning block where I accepted 7 rides but onlycompleted 2 😌
→ the other 5 made it very clear before the door even opened
they were not getting in my car 🚗💨
• a blind passenger at the airport
→ started the ride convinced I was going to steal her luggage
→ ended it asking me to drive her everywhere
because I narrated the whole ride so she felt safe ❤️
• half a dozen near-accidents on the freeway 🛣️
→ courtesy of other rideshare drivers with no business being behind the wheel of anything.
and one college kid
who tipped $20 cash
to go a quarter mile. 🫡
he understood the assignment.
Happy “everyone is on Coco Bear’s last nerve” day
to all who celebrate. 😌
spicy margs pending. 🍹
Adding a stop the INSTANT I start the trip
is absolutely a tactic…
but if you think I’m sitting in a Cub Foods parking lot
while you grocery shop — somebody done told you wrong. 🚙💨✌️
We have officially reached that time of day where the app wants me to drive over 30 minutes with multiple stops for $7 🤡😬🫠
Starting my day at 2AM hits different.
Already blasting something called HotBoi 🤷♂️at full volume.
The request lines are open… apparently. 🚙💨😬
Her first Rideshare ever…
and she was terrified. 😭
You’re doing great, sweetie. 🚗✨
Back-2-Back Karens wanting ALL the things means this is a good stopping point for today. 🚙💨👋
He started crying. Now I’m crying.
Suddenly it’s just
three grown a$s men crying in a Palisade.
😭🚗💨
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