The Uber that picked me up from the bar today had the gaudiest wheels

"My citroen won't start" (lucasboechat)
10/21/2015 at 16:15 • Filed to: day time drinking again

It looked exactly like this, I gave him 1 star and I hope he never embarrasses another passenger with that pile of classlessness.

DISCUSSION (14)

Ash78, voting early and often > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 16:20

And I hope it’s not a polluting tdi model, too! Damn Jettas.

pjhusa > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 16:20

How was the ride itself? Crap? Then you should give him a 1-star rating. If the ride was not absolutely crappy, you should’ve deducted 1-2 points from your intended score for gaudiness

bob and john > Ash78, voting early and often
10/21/2015 at 16:21

....thats a toyota corolla

My citroen won't start > pjhusa
10/21/2015 at 16:22

Yes, the water bottles were warm and those wheels made the ride harsh as fuck. Plus, I can’t show up at a business meeting on something with 20 chrome wheels.

My citroen won't start > Ash78, voting early and often
10/21/2015 at 16:22

Eh, waht?

Ash78, voting early and often > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 16:41

I guess I’m the only one that remembers the entire world laughing at the Mk V Jetta’s launch, since it looked almost identical to the Corolla at the time.

In fact, when I first glanced at the pic, I even saw a Jetta (probably the tacky wheels and black tint).

Übel > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 16:42

So you’re attacking someone’s livelihood because you don’t like their taste in car accessories? Nice.

My citroen won't start > Übel
10/21/2015 at 16:44

The ride was harsh and the water bottles were warm, UberBlack is supposed to be discreet, 20 inch chrome wheels are not.

Übel > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 16:58

the water bottles were warm

Oh no, the complimentary water that the driver doesn’t even have to provide in the first place was not to your exacting temperature standards? That bastard!

UberBlack is supposed to be discreet,

UberBlack is supposed to be a luxury car.

Textured Soy Protein > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 17:01

On a recent trip to Boston, I used Uber twice.

The first guy picked me up in a Jeep Compass and got me where I was going with a minimum of fuss.

The second guy picked me up in a Mitsubishi Evo X with a loud exhaust and a Cobb Accessport on the dash. He got lost when the GPS on his phone inevitably lost signal in one of Boston’s many tunnels, and we ended up on some random highway leading away from downtown Boston, even though he had picked me up in downtown Boston, and was taking me to another part of downtown Boston less than 2 miles away. At least at the point when he realized yup, we’re definitely on a highway and downtown Boston is behind us he “ended” the ride in his app so I wouldn’t be charged any more money. He finally found an off-ramp, turned around, and headed back into Boston. I pulled up the destination on my phone’s GPS, and made sure to correct him when he got in the lane to take the wrong fucking off-ramp at the exit of yet another fucking tunnel. This guy claimed to live and/or work in and around Boston.

Now I would blame this guy’s getting lost on his poor navigation skills, but the rest of the time I was in Boston, I had many near-misses where I almost ended up on the wrong ramp, or a lane that I thought would keep going on a road turned into an exit to another road, or middle lanes that were right-turn lanes were not marked as turn lanes so everyone in the middle lane tried to needlessly merge into the right lane until they got to right up at the intersection and finally learned they could’ve just stayed in the middle lane, and there were random triangular intersections that made no sense, and there were times that in order to get on a highway in the direction I needed to go, I needed to make approximately 37 U-turns before accessing the necessary ramp.

Boston: don’t drive there.

My citroen won't start > Übel
10/21/2015 at 17:05

In Brazil they do have to cary and offer water bottles, they also have to wear suits and those are the cars they use in Uberblack (Corollas, Jettas, Fusions, and so on) and they need to maintain a degree of discreetness. He failed in many of those aspects and those stupid wheels made the ride unbearable.

pjhusa > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 19:18

Well, that sucks.

DipodomysDeserti > My citroen won't start
10/21/2015 at 22:08

If you're showing up drunk, it's not going to matter what the wheels on your cheap cab looked like.

My citroen won't start > DipodomysDeserti
10/22/2015 at 06:27

I wasn’t drunk, just inebriated enough as not to kill myself in the meeting