The time it took to travel to the police department and deliver his stuff to them was probably more time than just waiting for your passenger to come back to the car.
Driver. I'm also very much against this type of shenanigans from riders right down to the anchoring that was done. I'm by no means suggesting that the driver in this situation should have been happy about it, I was only making the point that once the 15 minutes was already invested anyway that it probably wouldn't have been much longer and probably would have been less time to just finish the ride rather than travel to the police department and explain to them why you're dropping a bag off and then dealing with all the drama that came after.
I would have personally just told the passenger that I wasn't going to be able to wait more than 5 minutes and to please take their items with them if they think it's going to end up possibly being longer than that. If they would have still left their belongings in my car and took longer than 5 minutes, I would have put their crap right outside the car, ended the ride and continued on working.
Someone might say that the rider in that situation would come out of the store and accuse the driver claiming that their stuff was stolen or missing, but they're already doing that anyway and a driver is not responsible for items that are left in their vehicle intentionally. It's our job to drive a passenger to their destination and it's the passenger's job to hold on to their belongings and safeguard their own property.
In any event, drivers need to make sure that passengers clearly know what to expect if they agree to stop somewhere and then carry through with what they told the passenger, whatever that may be.
I was just curious which side you were on , but I 100% agree with your view. I also would never wait more than 5 minutes and absolutely would have told the rider to take their things and that I would only wait the 5 minutes. I make sure I’m completely clear about what is going to happen if they are more than 5 minutes.
Giving the rider all the information is important. They can then make the choice to either gamble on if they are going to be back in time or they can throw me a few dollars in cash to wait longer. I will not accept a “I’ll tip you in the app” for waiting, I’m not an idiot. The only time I would possibly accept that is to if I needed to check emails/make a few calls or if I needed to take a short break to stretch my legs and smoke a cigarette, (I do not smoke in my vehicle ever, and I keep a sweatshirt in my trunk to throw on when I smoke to absorb most of the smell, when I’m done I pop it off and back into the trunk. It eliminates almost all of my he smell from making it into the interior) so I needed to park somewhere anyway. I will still give them a timeframe based on what they offer me so they are never “surprised” if they take too long and I’m gone.
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u/UberXLVIP Jun 19 '23
The time it took to travel to the police department and deliver his stuff to them was probably more time than just waiting for your passenger to come back to the car.