It was time for my Uber and Lyft adventures to come to an end. I did the numbers and learned that I couldn’t afford to pay for a car service everyday. But before I decided to call it quits with the car companies that fulfilled my temporary (albeit tainted-by-lame-sexist-dudes) fantasy of getting chauffeured around, I called on Jimmy.
Jimmy rolled up in a car that the Uber app told me was a Nissan Cube. I ran from my house into his vehicle, and told him that my street didn’t go through so yes, he’d better turn around and ignore whatever the driving app was telling him to do.
Jimmy explained to me that he was from Glendora, a city in the “Inland Empire,” and drove down to Pasadena to pick up Uber riders during the week. I knew little about the Inland Empire except that a friend of mine had come to L.A. to shoot a film and, to her surprise, found herself in Glendora, not Los Angeles County. The fact that Jimmy was from Glendora didn’t feel like a good sign.
It didn’t take long before Jimmy revealed that he was, in fact, a ghost hunter. There were a couple of buildings he’d been hired to investigate for paranormal activities. He was just doing his job as a ghost hunter, he told me, when an undisclosed TV network spotted his work and put him on a show. Why was he driving for Uber then? I asked him. He explained that he drove Uber in his spare time, to mix it up, probably to escape the ghosts. His real, more intensive psychic work took place in the paranormal realm, and he needed to take breaks.
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