Uber Drivers of LA #2

Atypical Words
4 min readJul 11, 2023

I have had a few rides since my last post, but unfortunately, most of them didn't have very much to discuss. In the future, I may choose to catalog every driver I have, but when they don't feel like making conversation, there isn't much I can do.

I was fully prepared for another driver that wanted to restrict the topics of conversation to the weather and awkward silence, but I was pleasantly surprised on my way to a business lunch by an older Asian American gentleman named Gary.

The conversation was routine to start with. I have a sort of formula for conversing with…

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