16+ Uber Drivers Reveal the Creepiest Passenger Experience They've Had
Uber and Lyft have made getting places so much easier. Gone are the days when you have to wait around for a taxi. While you never know what to expect from your driver, sometimes the passengers are just as unhinged. From people who have had a bit too much to drink to aggressive passengers, these Uber drivers took to Reddit to share the weirdest experiences they've ever had. You won't believe some of these crazy stories!
Wallet Prank
"3am. Drive up to an old bar. Guy and his friend get in and immediately start laughing. I dont question because I figured they were d----, and from the smell, stoned too. About half way to their destination, the guys friend asked me for my wallet because he left his driver's license in it. I started laughing because that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. My friend a few months prior bought a new wallet and left his old one in the my car, so I put a single dollar in it and handed it to him. He hopped out of the car and ran a few feet away before saying 'What the h---? 1 dollar? You're broke as h---!'"
Oopsie Tracy
U/bassetd892: "Pulled up to a hotel and women came to my window. And I said you Tracy she said yeah I am. I said are you going to such and such address and she is like no I’m not going there. Then another women comes to my window knocking on it and says I’m Tracy. I said oh s--- well who the f--- is this other lady? Ended up driving the real Tracy to her destination and then dropped off the stranger where she wanted to go for 20 cash. So basically picked up and drove a stranger. Overall bad decision"
Jumping Jester
U/timelizard13: "I picked up a guy who wouldn't stop talking to himself and kept mentioning he had taken a bunch of unknown pills earlier. He wasn't aware of reality at all and would randomly get angry at me, screaming that I should be telling him jokes and entertaining him since I am his driver. When we were almost to his destination, he opened the door and jumped out of my car while it was still moving. Luckily I was near stopping and only going around 5mph when he did. He didn't get hurt."
Road Rage Rumble
U/loverofdogss: "I was in a taxi cab in England and this guy pulls out in front of us and the taxi man has to slam on the brakes. He then flicks the guy off, who returns the gesture. Next thing we know the taxi driver is in the other lane and speeding up beside him and we start drag racing until we reach a stop light. At the stop light the taxi driver pulls his car super close to the other man, they roll down their windows and start screaming racial slurs at each other and the taxi guy is like 'come on let’s go get out of the car let’s figh' fortunately the light turned green and he gave up and drove away. One of the scariest moments of my life thank god they don’t allow guns to be carried in England or it might’ve turned way worse"
Uneasy Journey
U/rt_10: "Uber passenger experience. Got into a ride with a guy with good ratings in app. For some reason I sat in front. It was normal when suddenly this guy starts scratching himself here and there on his face and neck. Started getting irritated whixh I got when I tried smalltalk. It was a 20 min ride but it just felt longer."
Midnight Tales
U/sting2018: "Picked up a girl at a motel and she was going to another motel (p---------) she said she wanted me to pull up to the room and she'd give me $10 to wait 5 minutes. If she came up within 5 minutes we'd leave and go somewhere else. Said she was nervous about this John. She gives me $10, goes in. Comes out like 2 minutes later and asks me to take her to a waffle house. She offered me a $20 tip and asked me if I wanted to eat with her. I said sure since it was like 4 AM and the night was dying down anyway. Left her at the waffle house and went home. Had some interesting stories."
Unlikely Bond
U/rougepenguin: "Just for a positive weird one, ended up becoming a close family friend to three generations of an immigrant family. Grandpa was the only one to order a ride through Uber proper, enjoyed talking to me and decided he'd rather just pay cash to have me come get him to run errands. Not that weird of a request and it was Summer in a college town, not a bad deal. He was there hashing out details for his daughter/granddaughter about to move to town, figured (correctly) I'd get along well with his daughter who didn't know anyone in the area. Arranged it so I'd get them to/from the airport for cash whenever one flew in, and over time he was right. Friends with her now, dude's wife loves talking to me to/from the airport, and even the little granddaughter asks about me if she hasn't seen me for a while. Drove for about a year, and that's the most interesting story I have from it for sure."
Creepy Gowned Fare
U/rubidium-custard-37: "This is from a few months ago - still gives me shakes.....Went to pick up an Austin in NJ. It was about 2am, so it’s my last ride. He’s a little far out, but not awful (I’m pretty rural anyway). I meet him at his spot near the woods and he’s in some sort of gown. Almost like a graduation gown, but it wasn’t black. He then waves and four f------ kids (around ten?) come out in solid white with another person in a gown just like his and they all climb in. They are all silent other than Austin, who is giving a monologue on the importance of some animal they were with. After about ten minutes, I look back, and I s--- you not, every single kid was glaring at me in my rear view mirror. All. Frickin. Four. Immediately Austin asks to halt the ride and asks for a new drop off, about two minutes away. Pretty confident the other gent in the gown was staring at me too, but I couldn’t see his eyes. I tremble and ask him to update the app. He says he won’t, as it’s a discrete location. I’m shivering and do that trick where you call a friend and let them listen in. I get to the location and they all pile out, except for that Austin guy, who looks at me dead in the eyes, then at my upside-down phone, then back at my eyes. He then got out and went into the woods."
Rock 'n' Roll Revival
U/CosmicMuse: "I woke the dead with AC/DC's It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll). St. Patrick's Day, I get a bunch of d---- college ladies in my car. The three in back are cheerful d-----, chatting and laughing. The one riding next to me is motionless. For the first 20 minutes of the trip, this woman doesn't move a muscle. Her phone is on on her lap, but she isn't looking at it or touching the screen at all. Having had similar situations before, my concern was that she would revive in a spontaneous shower of vomit. Instead, as we're heading into the downtown tunnel, the aforementioned song pops up on my playlist. Dr. Frankenstein would have killed for the resulting resurrection. The previously motionless young lady gasps loudly, shoots forward in her seat, and eagerly asks me to turn it up. I nearly drove into the wall of the tunnel. The rest of the trip was spent telling me how she was a huge fan of Jack Black, and how she recognized the song from School of Rock."
Lucky Ride
"Not really creepy or weird but definitely unexpected and a bit bizarre at the time. Three older women paid me to take them an hour ride to a casino and then by the hour to hang out and give them a safe ride once they were done gambling. I was in school at the time and one of the ladies ended up helping me restructure my resume and this Monday I’ll be starting me new job as a Data Engineer."
Chaotic Farewell
"Drove for a bit a few years ago and one night I picked up a dude and his buddy around a popular bar area who were pretty d----. They were going back to a rich part of town so I took the ride hoping for a nice tip. They started talking s--- close to home and when we got there they started beating the c--- out of each other in the driveway as they got out of the car. I left pretty quick."
Disruptive Driver
U/Timmy_turning: "I was the passenger, not the uber driver...I was in Rome, Italy and I got an uber with a middle aged Italian dude... the whole way through he had his window down and was yelling at every single person walking by... even worse! This mother f----- pulls to the side and has a 15 minute long conversation with a random dude at a sidewalk 20 minutes from my hotel... I finally got back and he didn't say anything... I got my s--- out myself and walked up the long ass slope to my hotel... this mother f----- parks at the very bottom of the slope... I paid him €40 and was pissed for the rest of the day"
Chaotic Ride
U/FearTheKeflex: "Picked up a dude and his girlfriend in a well known bar district early evening during the summer. Dude is fine but gf is f------ wasted. I'm talking slurring speech, can't walk, etc. Dude tells me where he's going and I start the trip. As soon as a I take off she says she wants to go back. Dude keeps telling her that they're going home but she keeps saying 'go back go back go back.' Then she starts saying she doesn't feel well. I tell her that if she feels like she is going to throw up, let me know so I can pull over and let her out. She says pull over so I do. She gets out and then just starts cussing me out for no reason and kicks at my door and the side of the car all while the dude is trying to hold her back. I take off and leave them there. First 1 star review I ever gave a passenger."
Eventful Mishap
U/woolfonmynoggin: "I was driving in Virginia Beach late one night and I get a ride that I have to pick up from the busiest bar and intersection on the beach. So I get there, call the guy to let him know he'll have to cross the street because it's shut down for some kind of event. He doesn't answer. We get paid for the time we wait, so I just sit there calling and texting him over and over. After about 25 minutes I ended the ride because it had kicked me out of the waiting screen after a while. As I'm stopping for gas 20 minutes later, he starts blowing up my phone asking where I am and telling me to come back. He was super d---- and told me it was my fault because he didn't hear his phone ring. I reported it to Lyft since I'm sure it gave him the option to one star me because the ride had technically started. Best part: his destination was over 2 hours away in the middle of a snowy December. He got really aggressive on the phone so it was a little rattling"
Nighttime No-Show
U/uglyafdood: "Not Uber but Lyft. Around when I first started doing Lyft full time I decided to try the night scene out in a town that had a bunch of bars. Around 12 AM I ended up getting a ride where the pickup took me 20 minutes away to a bad neighborhood. As soon as I get to the 'apartment' complex I call the passenger and tell them I am there because I have a bad feeling about this neighborhood and need to get out ASAP. The passenger answers and tells me they will be right out which relieves me a little but I’m still on edge sitting there in my car. Lyft has a 5 minute timer you have to wait before you can 'no-show' the passenger and leave. The timer ends up running out but I usually wait a little longer and give another call. I call a second time but someone else answers the phone this time saying they didn’t order a Lyft. As I hang up I see two guys in hoodies coming toward my car and one seems to be reaching in his waistband for something so I no-show the ride and nope the f--- out of there. I made $10 off the no-show but I was done driving nights for a while after that."
Unsettling Exchange
U/Lando1025: "I was an Uber driver for about a year. Picked up a d---- younger guy at one bar to take him to another bar. We pull up to said bar and it is closed. Instead of staying logged in the app, the d---- slams a $100 bill on my dashboard and asks me to take him home. I actually attempt to do the right thing, but he insisted. I take his $100 and proceed to his house. On the way, he tells me how he is a R & D scientist in the medical field, and this is where the story gets odd. He also goes on to tell me how he’s in the mafia and killed me a man by stabbing him in the stomach. He then proceeds to slam another $100 bill on my dash and asks if I’ll hang out with him for a little while. The guy was smaller then I was and he was quite d---- so I figured 'what the h---'. We get to the guys house, which is a mansion, and then sat in the car for about an hour shooting the s---. I then took my $200 and went home left to ponder if I had just become a prostitute and hope to god that was the guys actual house and that he wasn’t currently skinning the actual occupants."
Intriguing Proposal
U/hellobougey: "I actually was thinking about this because I saw a comment on reddit about 'the implication..' It reminded me of a time where an older gentleman who was disabled picked me up late at night. I work in human rights and when he asked about where I work, I discussed the importance of respect of disabled workers, etc. Then the conversation started getting weird as he talked about how I was the nicest person he ever met and whether I would be interested in going on a date sometime. Yes, this person was disabled, but he also used to be in a musical band and had a lot of bravado about that. Long story short, it was dark and we were on a road with no other cars and he suddenly started slowing down as he started flirting with me. A drive that should have taken us 15-20 minutes ended up being 40 minutes, but I could not bring myself to ask him to speed up or directly say I was not interested."
Oops, Uber!
"Once I was driving through The Valley (basically THE nightclub/bar spot in Brisbane) at around 5am heading to work on a Saturday. I stopped at a red light and some d---- girls got in and asked if I was their Uber 😂😂 I politely told them they got the wrong car and they screamed apologies as they climbed out. Definitely an interesting start to my day and seems like they had a fun night, I’ve been wasted on that street many times since."
Confused Commute
"I received a fare in the shipyard in Camden. As I made my way to the docks, two well dressed guys walked up with a dazed-d---- girl. There were three men in full military garb standing by where they walked out. The men gave me a peevish waive, and opened my back door. They put the girl in my car, and said 'whatever she says, don’t let her out of the car until you get to the destination,' and gave me $100. I probably wouldn’t have said yes to this, but I needed the extra cash, and agreed. Meanwhile as I was crossing backover the bridge, this girl becomes fully alert and starts screaming her ass off in full Spanish. I try to calm her down and explain that I was just her Uber driver and she’ll be home soon. She explains to me that she thought that she was still in Mexico. We get to her place and she gets out, and that was that..."