Perhaps I don’t speak the only language I know so good
So today I didn’t want to deal with public transportation and I wanted a few extra winks of sleep, so send in the Uber.
*Deep breath* so I order my first Uber, I do pool cause you know the environment and I’m being cheap fiscally responsible. The driver is about 9 minutes away and he’s either picking up or dropping someone off. About 5 minutes of waiting I check to see how close the Uber is and he’s still at his first stop, wtf. But I’m like idc as long as I make it to work on time. So the map shows he’s moving and is like 7 minutes away now. I’m ok I’ll get to work right at beginning of my shift ( I work a graveyard shift) then all of a sudden driver cancels my ride and I’m like…
So I order another Uber, luckily this one is there in 3 minutes. I say hello sit down and proceed to zone out *Takes another deep breath* the driver picks up two other passenger a loud talking woman on her phone and then a loud talking man on his phone. So you know this is the best possible scenario for someone who likes quiet and has a headache.
So in what seems like the longest car ride (maybe cause I was suffering from hearing the inane conversations), they finally get dropped of at their respective locations and now it’s my turn.
Everything is going smoothly it’s quiet and he’s not trying to hold a conversation the near perfect cab ride. Now for the reason I question my sanity, as we approach my job I say you can drop me off in front of this van. He asks me to repeat and as I say what I said before I point to the van. He pulls up behind it. Then asks me is right here fine I say yes then get out the car.
So it’s interactions like this where I question my speaking abilities and whether or not I’m actually talking in English. And since it’s just me and the driver in the car about this is myself. Maybe I thought one thing and said another but you heard your sleep riddled voice and thought man I sound like a crotchety old man. The only other option that I can see is that maybe I was speaking a different language. A language so far removed from English that he had to interpret my pointing because that was the only thing that he understood.
Maybe I’m just to sane for this insane world or too crazy for it cause I can’t make sense of it most the time.
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