Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Snapshot:
Start 2pm End 4am
400ish miles and made about $200.
21 Uber rides, 1 inspection, 1 Kendall court trip and then to work, 1 hospital visit.
Multi smiles, blessing and giggles.  A few tears.

• Dropped Kendall at court.  When will this saga end?  I'm proud of her, she is jumping through every hoop they put out there mostly with a smile. 
• Ran out to Boyd to do an insurance inspection on a truck. Very nice older man, he said his buddy swiped his truck in their work parking lot.  He said no big deal, certainly nothing to ruin a friendship over.  It was a decked out 2017 f250 4x4 and his buddy scraped/dented the rear driver door, broke off that door handle, scraped the rear panel, broke the end cap off the running board & broke the tail light.  Wow what a great friend to have.  Most guys would be fighting mad over their trucks. 
• Back downtown to pick up Kendall.  She was on the corner telling at cars for not pulling over for fire trucks coming thru. Lol her Mama's child for sure.
• On to Cooks to pray over Payton.  I hope I did well.  She looked so healthy, just like napping ... I also told the demon of cancer to go back to hell.  
• Took Kendall to work about 5:30 and logged into Uber.  Got a call right away to take a guy to go have beers, then kickball game, then probably more beers.  He says the kickball is way to funny as some players take it entirely way too serious. 
• Picked up couple guys took them to dinner spot off Magnolia. Then picked up 4 heifers going down to the Stockyards.  3 guys and a gal all pushing 400lbs from Arkansas.  The grumbled every bump and turn.  Yeah don't get Uber x again ... you don't fit.  Lol my car is one of the bigger ones.  They did let me know they were competing in some international steak grilling thing at Panther Island this weekend.  Good gravy!
• Time for airport Thursday ... I pick up a young man on the way. He learned English asl from Spanish by reading books.  That's doing it the hard way.  
• First airport run to Dallas then back after quick dinner/potty break.  Second trip is to QFort Worth ... so tempting to call it a night.  She was a traveling nurse.  She also thinks she mat have worked with my SIL Donna in the earlier 80s.  She very well may have as Donna has now been at JPS for nearly 40 years. 
• I don't really remember third airport run much other than it landed me in Dallas.  Then a few more small runs around town.  Then I picked up a working young man from work.  He as already put in 51 hours and 10 more to go tomorrow.  Bless him, he just got married and looking forward to moving to Los Angeles in the spring to pursue a music production career. 
• Couple more post Stars game bar runs.  Picked up a couple here for the game Saturday.  She had quite the tale of an Uber ride from the Cowboy game.  She said she was picked up in a jeep with the doors/top off and the lady had her dog with her. Her guy friend was like awesome a jeep and dog ... I love dogs.  She was like not really... my hair was in knots and I was allergic to the dog. Eek!  Zoe Joy would just head over paws if she got to ride along. 
• Another bar quickie ride.  Then call to Deep Elum.  2 guts and gal headed to Irving ... drop address was 777! 30 minutes having a spirited conversation about Romo vs Daks and the Cowboys in general. It was his birthday, I'm glad I got join in a bit.  
• After a quick break and tank fill headed back to Fort Worth.  Picked up a guy headed north he had the cutest Gary Coleman face,  I wanted to pinch his cheeks and kiss his nose.  But I thought better of it.  
• Next I got an out of the way call going farther North to Roanoke.  God said don't decline, so I didn't.  Pull up, very young man waiting at the curb.  He fell asleep at his friends.  He woke up at 3 am to several vm & text from his Mom varying from worry to extreme po`d.  So I gently explained Mom imagination to him and how it kicks on those missed calls.  For those in the dark that imagination includes (but certainly not limited to) these scenarios ... you're dead in a ditch & one or more of you limbs are in other ditches, the black market mafia grabbed you up then cut out your perfect kidney now your in some seedy hotel bathtub packed in ice or maybe a trucker named Arlene scooped you up & is taking you to Idaho to be her boy slave.  This I explained is Mom imagination.  I also told him about my kids and acquired kids and grand kids ... when I dropped him off he said he was very glad to have met me.  He said it really changed his perspective on what his Mom goes through when he does stupid things like this.  Awesome !  Your welcome to his Mom. 
• Couple of drunk and regrets tomorrow pick ups.  Then last of the night.  Three TCU girls in nice enough neighborhood.  Two leaning on each other, the other has given up and is laying in a pile of leaves all at the curb in their pretty going out clothes.  They are in and leaf girl sings for us ... Lady A " Need you Now" she knows the words then Sara Evans "Stronger" she loves this song but can only remember the word stronger.  So it's lalala Stronger over and over.  Cracking up.  We drop the crankier of the trio at one stop.  Then fun lovers are a few blocks down.   One is worried about not washing off all her make up.  The singer is going to make grilled cheese in the waffle maker.  I pray Talking Heads didn't come on the kitchen radio. 

So that's it.  I'm hanging out till Dave gets up for coffee, then watch PT be a big shot on the Tv ... j/k ing ... I'm super proud of him and  I would be to chicken sh@😲 to do something like that.  It will get lots of attention for Answer International.  Big weekend in DFW with concerts, fairs and football so I'm sure I'll have more to report tomorrow. 

Love & Blessings Traci.