Last night, while driving for Uber, I got a call to pick up a woman from over by the fair.

About 30 seconds after accepting the ride, the rider sent me a message via the app. “When you get here, can you pretend to be my boyfriend?

“I didn’t know to what capacity she meant, so I asked “What do you mean?”.

She then said, “I just need you to act like you know me, and that you’re not my Uber driver”.

Before I got to the pickup, I took my Uber and Lyft stickers out of my window.

Although I didn’t feel comfortable removing my wedding ring, I made a mental note to keep it out of eyesight.

When I got there, I had my window rolled down. A man and a woman were in the front yard, talking.

Window rolled down. A man and a woman were in the front yard, talking. The woman was my fare and she set the scene immediately.

She looked over and yelled, “Hi, Babe! I’ll be right there!”. I didn’t want to leave her hanging, so i shouted back, “Awesome, because I’m starving!”.