As usual, I missed the bus. This was probably a good thing because the bus takes at least one hour to get anywhere from where I live in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood to the other side of the Interstate 5. By car it’s only 15-20 minutes. Lately I’ve been switching up Uber adventures with Lyft because the men who drive for it seem to have better boundaries with their young female passengers, like me. And with the new Lyft option of saving money by opting to “wait 10 minutes for a driver” rather than the faster one-minute wait norm, it’s easy to rationalize a Lyft over a long bus ride.
I decided to try out the “wait 10 minutes” option on a Sunday morning. I was headed to Silver Lake to meet up with a friend. I requested a 10-minute Lyft but no one was biting, so I gave up on my money-saving plan and switched to the one-minute option.
Michael’s Lyft screen said he would be there in three minutes, but for three minutes I stared at the screen, observing that his car was in fact not moving to the other side of Highland Park where I waited.
And I was paying three dollars extra for this? Apparently, I was.
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