theminx
Your Friendly Neighborhood Minx. Grr! Meow.
Greetings & Salutations Everyone!
I was chatting with the lovely Cali Cat last night, and I was telling her something I noticed a few months ago...
I don't know if any of you use that popular transportation service via an app on your telephone (I was told I probably shouldn't publicly post their name), but if you do you might already be aware of their rating service. Basically, after a ride using said service, you rate the drive...
...but the driver also rates you.
Yes! Exactly! The drivers rate the passengers!
And if you fall below a certain rating average, you are limited to lower rated drivers.
There's the rub.
I pay for the service, then get rated for my passenger conduct, which I was fine with...
...until I noticed my rating was consistently decreasing over this past year. From a 5.00...
...to a 4.45!
I was getting frustrated, cuz I know I'm a good passenger. I don't make trouble. I'm not rude or loud...
...then it hit me! Eureka!
I don't talk!
These drivers are often extremely chatty. In fact, some have gone out of their way to let me know a huge reason they like doing this (as a side job, of course) is the fact it allows them to be "social" and get paid for it!
So, I started wondering if some of these drivers were taking umbrage to my reticence....
....especially when they ask questions which I'm sure THEY think are innocuous, but feel terribly invasive and private to me.
For instance:
Where are you coming from?
Do you work at the hospital or do volunteer work for the mentally ill (when I'm taking the service to or from a support group)?
Is this where you live?
These sorts of questions drive me batty, so...I usually try to deflect evasively and keep to myself.
That's when it occurred to me they were likely taking my reticence...
...to me being a standoffish b**ch!
So, rather than get frustrated, I decided to use this as an opportunity for a social experiment.
I decided to get chatty with my drivers. But not just chatty. I decided I was gonna flat out lie...and fabricate stories when asked uncomfortable questions...to see if it would influence my rating.
And that's exactly how that sh*t went down!
A few days later, I noticed my rating was at 4.47. So, I got even chattier.
I actually had my driver in stitches a few days back with the ridiculousness I was telling him.
He thought I was hilarious!
Well, now my rating is now up to 4.56.
In a bit less than two months! My rating went from 4.45 to 4.56 just from talking more!
Crazy, right? And it keeps going up.
Like I said, instead of getting frustrated, I decided to think of it as a nifty social experiment. And now I just think of it as a role...
...and using this service doesn't stress me out so much. I go into each ride deciding I'm going to play off my estimation of who they are.
I might not have that "social antenna" like NTs do, but I am perceptive. After years of practice, I'm able to use what I dub my "environmental antenna" to do what my lack of "social antenna" cannot.
I sum up the person via...
Like the other day, my driver was a woman...very sexy. With a BMW and a pink steering wheel.
This told me all I needed to know.
I started chatting about perfumes...and which scents are best for intimacy...and how important it is to be sexy.
She ate it up.
Sigh...![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
With the driver who found me hilarious, I guessed tradition was important to him, cuz he had an older vehicle, a Toyota Camry...so, thought he was likely pragmatic, yet traditional. So, I pretended I was my sister...and told him about my family (parents and siblings), but from my sister's perspective...then lied about me and my boyfriend...and tokd him we were planning on getting married and having children...but our careers have had us too busy right now.
I told him that when I realized he got upset when he asked how long we'd been together...and why we were together so long and he hadn't yet put a ring on my finger...and why was I waiting around so long for a man like that.
I panicked...
I should've just pretended I was married from the get go...cuz knowing I wasn't definitely threw him off a bit...and it took me awhile to get us back on track.
People are so weird.
But if it keeps my rating from dropping, then I guess it's worth it. And lying is less stressful than either not talking or telling them the truth, which seems to make them even more uncomfortable than silence...and having them get weird, then give me a lower rating.
Pure silliness! Rawr
I was chatting with the lovely Cali Cat last night, and I was telling her something I noticed a few months ago...
I don't know if any of you use that popular transportation service via an app on your telephone (I was told I probably shouldn't publicly post their name), but if you do you might already be aware of their rating service. Basically, after a ride using said service, you rate the drive...
...but the driver also rates you.
Yes! Exactly! The drivers rate the passengers!
And if you fall below a certain rating average, you are limited to lower rated drivers.
There's the rub.
I pay for the service, then get rated for my passenger conduct, which I was fine with...
...until I noticed my rating was consistently decreasing over this past year. From a 5.00...
...to a 4.45!
I was getting frustrated, cuz I know I'm a good passenger. I don't make trouble. I'm not rude or loud...
...then it hit me! Eureka!
I don't talk!
These drivers are often extremely chatty. In fact, some have gone out of their way to let me know a huge reason they like doing this (as a side job, of course) is the fact it allows them to be "social" and get paid for it!
So, I started wondering if some of these drivers were taking umbrage to my reticence....
....especially when they ask questions which I'm sure THEY think are innocuous, but feel terribly invasive and private to me.
For instance:
Where are you coming from?
Do you work at the hospital or do volunteer work for the mentally ill (when I'm taking the service to or from a support group)?
Is this where you live?
These sorts of questions drive me batty, so...I usually try to deflect evasively and keep to myself.
That's when it occurred to me they were likely taking my reticence...
...to me being a standoffish b**ch!
So, rather than get frustrated, I decided to use this as an opportunity for a social experiment.
I decided to get chatty with my drivers. But not just chatty. I decided I was gonna flat out lie...and fabricate stories when asked uncomfortable questions...to see if it would influence my rating.
And that's exactly how that sh*t went down!
A few days later, I noticed my rating was at 4.47. So, I got even chattier.
I actually had my driver in stitches a few days back with the ridiculousness I was telling him.
He thought I was hilarious!
Well, now my rating is now up to 4.56.
In a bit less than two months! My rating went from 4.45 to 4.56 just from talking more!
Crazy, right? And it keeps going up.
Like I said, instead of getting frustrated, I decided to think of it as a nifty social experiment. And now I just think of it as a role...
...and using this service doesn't stress me out so much. I go into each ride deciding I'm going to play off my estimation of who they are.
I might not have that "social antenna" like NTs do, but I am perceptive. After years of practice, I'm able to use what I dub my "environmental antenna" to do what my lack of "social antenna" cannot.
I sum up the person via...
Like the other day, my driver was a woman...very sexy. With a BMW and a pink steering wheel.
This told me all I needed to know.
I started chatting about perfumes...and which scents are best for intimacy...and how important it is to be sexy.
She ate it up.
Sigh...
![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
With the driver who found me hilarious, I guessed tradition was important to him, cuz he had an older vehicle, a Toyota Camry...so, thought he was likely pragmatic, yet traditional. So, I pretended I was my sister...and told him about my family (parents and siblings), but from my sister's perspective...then lied about me and my boyfriend...and tokd him we were planning on getting married and having children...but our careers have had us too busy right now.
I told him that when I realized he got upset when he asked how long we'd been together...and why we were together so long and he hadn't yet put a ring on my finger...and why was I waiting around so long for a man like that.
I panicked...
I should've just pretended I was married from the get go...cuz knowing I wasn't definitely threw him off a bit...and it took me awhile to get us back on track.
People are so weird.
But if it keeps my rating from dropping, then I guess it's worth it. And lying is less stressful than either not talking or telling them the truth, which seems to make them even more uncomfortable than silence...and having them get weird, then give me a lower rating.
Pure silliness! Rawr
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