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Uncomfortable passenger reluctantly agrees with Uber driver's weird opinions

“For the first little while, the driver and I just exchanged some normal chit chat,” recounted Mulligan. “You know, the weather, our evening plans, that kind of thing. Honestly, it was so mundane that I was only barely paying attention.”
James Hartnett · CBC Comedy ·
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TORONTO, ON—Last week, Sara Mulligan of Toronto was headed to a movie and decided call to an Uber to take her to the theatre.

At first, Mulligan found her interactions with the driver to be of the relatively standard, trivial variety.

"For the first little while, the driver and I just exchanged some normal chit chat," recounted Mulligan. "You know, the weather, our evening plans, that kind of thing. Honestly, it was so mundane that I was only barely paying attention."

Mulligan soon realized, however, that this social interaction was about to take an awkward turn.

"The driver was talking about how we're all the verge of so many scientific breakthroughs," Mulligan recalled. "I was thinking, 'OK, she means stuff like driverless cars.' But then she started saying that she knows that some companies and wealthy people possess teleportation technology, just like in Star Trek. And then she said to me, 'It's terrible that they're not sharing this technology with everyone. Don't you agree?'"

Mulligan was faced with a difficult decision – should she reply to her driver skeptically, or be reluctantly agreeable?

"I looked at my phone and I had four minutes left in the trip," said Mulligan. "I was just like, it's not going to be worth it getting into it with this lady. So I just nodded and said, 'Yeah. It's really ridiculous that they're keeping that from us.'"

Unfortunately for Mulligan, this only took her in deeper.

"She started telling me how this technology was from Neptune, and was powered by these special 'space rubies,'" Mulligan recalled. "By then I was in so deep, I had to keep nodding and muttering 'uh huh' or 'yeah.'"

In the end, Mulligan says she does not regret her decision.

"It was an awkward conversation to be sure," she said. "But I have like a 4.8 Uber passenger rating. Sorry, but I'll pretend to agree with anything to keep that shit up."

These Uber drivers will do anything to keep their ratings up:

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