Taxi Driver Online

Uber has been operating in Lincoln for some time now, and the app loving public can’t get enough of it, though goodness knows why.
A friend of mine who lives in bassingham, about eight miles out of Lincoln, booked one to pick him and his wife up from the Bailgate to bassingham. The app quoted £23, which was cheaper than a local ph. The Uber rocked up, with its Wolverhampton plated, Nottingham resident, second language driver, who told my friend, “I do not know where bassingham is” hardly surprising, being he is from Nottingham. But that’s what sat nav is for, and I presume, the drivers Uber app shows him, tells him which route to take, doesn’t it? I wouldn’t know, I’ve never used Uber, ever. Anyway, James ( not his real name) gave the driver directions by the route he always goes home by, via bracebridge heath and waddington, and harmston hill. This route is, to use the drunken punters phrase, the long way round. Anyway, the Uber got to bassingham, and James, in his generous for a Yorkshireman way, gave the driver a tenner tip, and wished him good luck in finding his way back to Lincoln.
The next day, when James had sobered up, and being a Yorkshireman, checked his banking app, to see how much his night out had cost him, he discovered that Uber had surcharged him an additional ten pounds, because he had directed the driver to go off route, so the “cheap” £23 Uber cost him £43.
And he bought four rounds of drinks too, a new record for him.

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Former taxi driver