Road Trips, Casinos, Poppin Bottles and New Friends

I seem to always have something going on these days... To start-- I'm still Ubering but mostly on the weekends.  I was with a Marketing company for a short time.. Nothing went wrong there-- we parted on good terms-- just wasn't the place for me.  

To be honest--I really needed to get back to my Day Trading E-mini Futures Education roots-- which I am happy to say I'm back in with!  Its a pretty awesome deal and makes me feel right at home again.  I'll share a bit more with you about it in the next post because its actually quite exciting!  Getting away from where I was before and landing myself right in the middle of where I am now is almost a dream come true!

But that's not REALLY what I came here to talk to you about today.. Today, my good folks-- I've got a doozy of a story to share with y'all about an Uber experience.. A few of them actually-- Lend me your little eyes and check out this stuff that I couldn't make up if I tried!

So here we go!!

Recently-- I was driving Uber on a Friday night in order to manage my weekend time "wisely" (making money instead of spending it going out).. I was on my way home around midnight from downtown Houston and as I'm getting closer to my bed-- I got pinged from a local bar, that's about 2 minutes from home here in Sugar Land, Texas....I figure-- what the heck-- I'll take this last group of people home, since they did order an XL ride, then I'll head on home myself.. Call it a night and figure out the next day when I opened my eyes again.

Now... Here's where I REALLY realize that I will NEVER have an idea what life is going to throw at me, so I might as well just be prepared for anything.. Once I accepted the ride and find one of the people, I look at the destination and it says: 

The Golden Nugget 

Lake Charles, 

Louisiana  

For those of you who aren't familiar with this area-- this is what that trip would look like...

Here's an abbreviated version of the conversation that went down...

Me: "Uh sir.. you put in the wrong destination.. this says Louisiana..."

Him: "Nope.. it was right! We're waiting on 4 more people to show up.. you down?"

Me: "Uhhh.. well... You have a credit card and wanna cancel this trip? Because that would be totally sway my decision a bit" (For the record, I have a Square Credit Card slider that I use when someone calls me back to pick them up.. this way I don't have to share 30% of it with Uber and it all goes through my LLC)


Him: "I've done this before...Uber says it will be x-amount.. I don't want use my credit card because that cuts into my gambling money but I have PayPal and because you're cool, I'll pay you more than Uber was going to charge"


Me: "ROADTRIP!"

How you let all your FB peeps know
that you've left the state..

At that point, I thought it might be a good idea to call my fam so they know I wasn't dead somewhere on the side of the road--well, at least not in Texas-- there were no guarantees once we hit the border..

They were polite, fun, had the best remix of 90's music on the planet, snacks out the wazoo from our stop at Buckees and pretty and interesting conversation... I got home around 6 am and didn't regret a thing!

BUT the story didn't end there...

I got a little ring-a-ding-ding on my phone Sunday that went a little like this:

"Liiiiiindsaaaaayyyyy!!! WEEEE NEEEED YOOOOU!!!"  

On my way back for the crazy crew!

That was about all I could get out of the words they were saying because they'd been drinking for 3 days straight... I also understood between slurs that Lake Charles has no Uber and those boys were now stuck there-- unless they took a cab-- which was gonna stick it to them AND they wouldn't have anywhere NEAR as much fun as they had with me.  So.. I finished up what I was doing and rolled out.  When I go there-- those poor guys were so wasted!  One was missing his shoes, another was missing his shirt.   They were super sunburnt and apparently the guy who funded the trip had lost his phone in the lazy river... twice.. The first time the phone worked. Second time-- not so lucky.  So we sat in the parking lot for about 40 minutes while he spouted out possible passwords to his PayPal account so that he could connect it on another friend's phone and pay me before we rolled out.

And while my Co-Pilot/ DJ/ Funder of this debauchery was a lot of fun on the way up-- he was definitely in need of a drinky-time nap on the way home.  He finally passed out, along with a few other passengers and it was quiet.. smooth sailing the rest of the way home.

As we were heading home, I told them I must have a picture of my "Lake Charles Ride or Die Crew" since they were now Facebook famous with all the people on my page.. We stopped at a place that they could buy beer but they were thrown out before they even got 2 feet in the door.  The woman inside took one look at how drunk they still were and literally said, "Hell no!  Just turn around and head right on out!" Denied before they even tried! Luckily-- They had found shirts and shoes by this time-- plus a few bottles of water in-- so meet they guys!

Meet the guys!

And to be honest with you-- I thought this is where it would all end--- but nooOOOoooo..The day after I started writing this little ditty-- my Ride or Die Louisiana Guy emailed me.. Said he had another road trip and was I down?  I was about to be kid free for a few days, so guess what? I WAS DOWN!

Since that trip, we've been on few adventures-- logging about 20 hours in the car (and keeping me from finishing this post when intended).. We've talked about religion, aliens, spirits, stock markets. party times, my kids, crazy youths and just how cool it is to get to know people you may have never crossed paths with-- its actually scary funny how much we had in common when it came to the places we had lived, some people we knew and all the likes..

Poppin' bottles!

BUT somewhere in between all of that-- I got to spend a little time on the other side of the Uber experience with them.. I was taught that some nights call for letting loose, bay houses, personal bottles of champagne, sparklers and quite a few things that may have slipped my mind at this moment... 

As soon as my adventure with them was over (like 3 am)-- and I was in need of my own Uber home-- he was ordering a hotel and another Uber since he was off to Austin for Austin City Limits-- and I was off to bed.. Maybe because I was slightly intoxicated or maybe because I knew I would be out there soon to pick up Mr. Ride or Die (which he is now saved in my phone as)..

There's so much that has happened, that was laughed about and learned about over these trips that I almost feel like I could write the most interesting book in the world on, what I find to be, one of the most interesting people in the world-- He's either the realest person I've ever met-- or a master manipulator.. Either way-- I'm on board with whatever comes next! But I do lean heavily towards a real, cool-ass mo-fo... And I'll count my days until we ride again!

Let's DO THIS!!

So, for now, its time to have my head back in to all things that have to do with Day Trading the Emini S&P. I really can't express to you how good if feels to back in to trading!  Maybe its because I'm looking at the market with new eyes... or took some time off.. or just was REALLY unhappy with the last few companies I've been with.. But this time really feels different.  I'm trading with ease and I'm kicking ass!  And I'm going to keep on doing it...  until I get that call that says, 

"You ready to ride?!"  

Because I'm SO down!