We often hear complaints about cab drivers taking the long route before reaching us and making us wait. Sometimes it becomes a difficult task to explain them how and where to reach. A funny incident is going viral in which a Mumbai citizen named Preshit Deorukhkar shared on Twitter that his Uber driver started the ride long before he picked him up.
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On July 19, 2018, Preshit had booked a cab from the Uber app. After sometime, he came to know that the driver began the drive without picking him. Hi, your 1-trip driver has started the trip without arriving at the location. His phone isn’t reachable. What do I do? he wrote on Twitter.
@UberINSupport Hi, your 1-trip driver has started the trip without arriving at the location. His phone isn't reachable. What do I do? pic.twitter.com/L6tRT95gmI
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
It was the first day of the driver with Uber and it turned into a drastic experience for Deorukhkar. He decided to check if the driver reached to pick him after a detour and continued to track the journey online.
Now he is just aimlessly roaming around on the Link road. pic.twitter.com/ZcsY5pcQK6
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
Enjoying the whole incident, Deorukhkar tried to take a jibe at the driver. He brought to the attention of Uber that the driver had no proper name on the app and only went by ‘P’.
@UberINSupport Also, how is "P" an acceptable driver name by your standards? pic.twitter.com/ku8N3Ts7tT
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
He continued posting screenshots of the journey using funny captions. “Pickup was in Malad West. Driver has now reached the edge of north Mumbai. I’m assuming he has to dump something in the khaadi,” he wrote.
Pickup was in Malad West. Driver has now reached the edge of north Mumbai. I'm assuming he has to dump something in the khaadi. pic.twitter.com/pG3QmAo6lg
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
Or he is dumping a dead body sealed in the car deep in the mangroves, me thinks. pic.twitter.com/SBokjKaLkK
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
He is taking the longer, less scenic route back the city now. pic.twitter.com/uW1RogD6gL
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
Things got interesting as he was in the mood of mocking the driver in a funny way. “There’s got to be some major stash buried here, right? Gold? Drugs? Arms and ammunition?” the rider tweeted.
He's stopped here for some reason. What role are the cops playing in this story 🤔 pic.twitter.com/pgNdG5vXVn
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
After completing the journey, the cab driver cancelled the drive but with a payment of Rs 857.43.
Ahahahahahahaha!
Rs. 857.43 for this ridiculous @Uber trip. pic.twitter.com/qlzc4hrbKD
— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
Uber responded and said to him that the company will refund the full trip fare within next 3-5 days. However, it didn’t apologise for the incident.
Here’s Uber’s response about the case.
Driver goes for a joyride, tries to dupe the rider, wastes rider’s time, and all he gets is a “note” on his profile
All I got was this response from their internal support system. Note the lack of “sorry” or “apologies” in the response
🙄 pic.twitter.com/EcUxOTOgsM— Preshit Deorukhkar (@preshit) July 19, 2018
Deorukhkar’s tweet made users to raise their voice against Uber and some took the benefit of the occasion by entertaining others.
Same had happened with me.
Same had happened with me. It is high time that Uber should bring in some way where driver is not allowed to start trip until passenger is on board.https://t.co/WZKE8l2Wtq
— Sudheendra Baliga (@baligasudhi) July 21, 2018
Amazing sense of humour buddy
Amazing sense of humour buddy, on point I must say.
— Rohan Sharma (@IAIMPictures) July 20, 2018
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May be he was a Avenger.
Probably he was an avenger 😂..going to save the world..
— allwyn hosamani (@allwynnewton) July 20, 2018
All we need to do is look forward.
After this one heck of a story, all we need to do is move forward 😝 #moveforward pic.twitter.com/NC0tDsSr4v
— Yogish (@iamyogishh) July 20, 2018
