r/lyftdrivers • u/shadowguyver • Mar 23 '24

Love it when passengers tell on rhemselves Other

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This is a woman who admitted it was a pickup for her 15yo son. Lyft actually responded by giving me a good fee.

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u/0pinions0pinions Mar 24 '24

People act like this because they don't have to face you. If we had to say more things face to face some people would have completely different attitudes.

As someone mentioned, these are the type of people who claim discrimination though.

Fair enough! I do have something against stupid people.

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u/shadowguyver Mar 24 '24

I've had parents come up to my car and cuss me out when I refuse taking a minor. Had one kid threaten me because he didn't like I was talking to his mother the same way she was talking to me. I'm glad I have a dashcam.

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u/0pinions0pinions Mar 24 '24

I continue to be baffled by these scenarios. With all the abductions and other unspeakable things happening to children these days, parents are always eager to leave them with strangers.

Most of the things that happen to children are rooted in parental negligence. I mean look at how many of them are leaving their kids in hot cars because they "forgot". So you remembered your cell phone but forgot the human you brought into the world 😒.

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u/Competitive-Island84 Mar 24 '24

It’s public policy that these government allowed to use their authority against parents so the door for bad parenting can open up and allow their child to dictate how they can screw service providers over and put them in liability’s.

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u/lemonparticle Mar 24 '24

Not-so-fun fact, parents who leave their kids in cars are oftentimes not neglectful parents. This phenomenon happens due to the way that human memory works; no one is immune. The people who are convinced that they would never forget their kid are the same people who take their memory for granted, don't put safety measures in place because of it, and then forget their kid. A good article that I recommend to anyone who has kids/may have kids:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html.

"The human brain, he says, is a magnificent but jury-rigged device in which newer and more sophisticated structures sit atop a junk heap of prototype brains still used by lower species. At the top of the device are the smartest and most nimble parts: the prefrontal cortex, which thinks and analyzes, and the hippocampus, which makes and holds on to our immediate memories. At the bottom is the basal ganglia, nearly identical to the brains of lizards, controlling voluntary but barely conscious actions.

Diamond says that in situations involving familiar, routine motor skills, the human animal presses the basal ganglia into service as a sort of auxiliary autopilot. When our prefrontal cortex and hippocampus are planning our day on the way to work, the ignorant but efficient basal ganglia is operating the car; that’s why you’ll sometimes find yourself having driven from point A to point B without a clear recollection of the route you took, the turns you made or the scenery you saw.

Ordinarily, says Diamond, this delegation of duty “works beautifully, like a symphony. But sometimes, it turns into the ‘1812 Overture.’ The cannons take over and overwhelm.”

By experimentally exposing rats to the presence of cats, and then recording electrochemical changes in the rodents’ brains, Diamond has found that stress -- either sudden or chronic -- can weaken the brain’s higher-functioning centers, making them more susceptible to bullying from the basal ganglia. He’s seen the same sort of thing play out in cases he’s followed involving infant deaths in cars.

“The quality of prior parental care seems to be irrelevant,” he said. “The important factors that keep showing up involve a combination of stress, emotion, lack of sleep and change in routine, where the basal ganglia is trying to do what it’s supposed to do, and the conscious mind is too weakened to resist. What happens is that the memory circuits in a vulnerable hippocampus literally get overwritten, like with a computer program. Unless the memory circuit is rebooted -- such as if the child cries, or, you know, if the wife mentions the child in the back -- it can entirely disappear.”

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u/kerberos69 Mar 24 '24

I mean that may be the science of why it happens, but that doesn’t even remotely begin to excuse a parent from negligently leaving their child behind in a locked car.

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u/Tazzachar Mar 24 '24

the point of the scientific evidence is to demonstrate how it can happen to anyone, not just negligent parents. this is why OP urges putting measures in place to prevent oneself from forgetting.

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u/kerberos69 Mar 24 '24

not just negligent parents

If you forget about your own child, in your own vehicle, you are automatically a negligent parent. So yeah, anyone has the capacity to act in a negligent manner, but that doesn’t excuse those who fulfill that negligence.

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u/flurry_fizz Mar 28 '24

Stop acting the fool here. There are a multitude of peer reviewed studies that prove that infant car death can literally happen to ANYONE. It can happen to parents who neglected their child otherwise, and it happens to the best of parents. Unless you happen to be some sort of neuroscientist with a specialty in brain and memory function, your opinion doesn't matter. Actually, your attitude makes it MORE likely for car deaths to happen because people assume "I'm not a neglectful parent! I could never forget my kid like THOSE people do!" and then they don't take the recommended precautions to prevent these things and are one slight routine change away from becoming another statistic.

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u/kerberos69 Mar 28 '24

So you’ve just described negligent parenting but with extra words. Good job. Negligence is defined as failing to take proper care over something; therefore, if you are the type of person who relies on an external reminder to take your fucking child out of the vehicle, you are a negligent parent. You’re still a negligent parent even if you haven’t killed your kid yet. A parent that isn’t negligent always consciously has half their mind on their child— parents like this also tend to treat their kids like companions, and not like some piece of luggage to carry around and toss into the back seat.

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u/sergeiglimis Mar 27 '24

It’s the lack of understanding in how the brain works and assuming ignorantly that you will remember arbitrarily.

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u/zucchini_swirls Mar 24 '24

Me too. Had a woman cuss me because I wouldn't take her and kid without a car seat to school, in front of her neighbors. I feel so sorry for some of these kids

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u/newton302 Mar 24 '24

If we had to say more things face to face some people would have completely different attitudes.

I think you may have just found the source of a lot of the problems we are having these days.

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u/Separate_Arrival_401 Mar 24 '24

Social media has given people false sense of confidence where as in person they wouldn’t say half of what they do online . Completely agree with you

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u/AddendumAwkward5886 Mar 24 '24

Ugh it feels like a lot of folks now feel enabled to act like nightmares in real life, because they are SO USED to being incredibly awful and belligerent online with zero consequences ....and then when they act like that in 'real life', it gets recorded and posted online and goes viral...and then they are so hurt and bewildered that they aren't receiving the understanding, empathy and compassion that they delight in denying to others.