re: First Time Using Uber: It's basically a taxi service with a cool app

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3) Hit the button at my hotel this morning. Message says a guy is 2 mins away. Then says the guy is arriving. I see him with his blinker on in front of my hotel. Then, he takes his blinker off and pulls back into traffic and disappears. Then the app says hes 4 mins away. Then 8 mins away. Then hes on the Interstate. Then hes 11 mins away. And then he stops somewhere. I try to Cancel but Ubder says I might get charged for canceling. So I wait it out. He stays stopped somewhere (getting a coffee maybe) for like 5 mins. Then he heads my way. Finally arrives about 20 mins after he initially was right across the street from me.

So, immediately I said: Dude, what the frick was that? And he starts screaming about how it wasn't his fault. That the app sent him to the wrong place. And I said: Hey, you're yelling at me. Don't yell at me. Just drive....of course this sets him off. He tells me (in some sort of Eastern European heavy accent) that basically I must agree to give him a 5* rating or he will cancel the trip. I tell him to get fricked. He tells me to get out of his car, which I do. He then tells me I am a piece of shite and that he is gonna call the cops. He says he can't have another "problem with his star". I tell him to leave. But he refuses. He is banging his hand on the console and screaming. Hotel person comes out and asks what the problem is. He calls the hotel guy a fricking **** and says he's gonna kick someone's arse. He finally calms down and leaves. I am 30 mins late now. I summon another Uber.

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