Illegally Parked

A Developmental Psychiatry PhD student talks about using A.I. in her classes, and being a future Martian doctor to the kids if we still have them. And also about the trails and tribulations of dealing with Lyme disease during the lockdown.

Two young guys get picked up on the way to the bar to watch some sports and place some wagers. 

3 Drunk idiots talk with the driver about nothing and debate if anyone will listen or not. 

An ex-Uber driver tells his best stories while going home on his birthday, seemingly unimpressed by the Tesla he is driving in, or his current girlfriends frame of mind. 

After dropping off the police officer at the airport, the driver gets a young black man in North Lawndale who returns home to Chicago and tells how things have changed while catching a ride to the dispensary from the worst block for violence the driver knows in the city.  

A young Chicago police officer talks about his supposed encounter with the Smiley Face Killer this summer amongst the other issues the city faces.  We talk about the difficultly of migrants, crime, being a ride share driver, and his busy online dating life. 

A young prison abolitionist preaches to the choir.  

In the words of the great prophet M.C. Hammer, and also this woman living on the Southside of Chicago. We talk bible prophecy, violence, migrants, and solutions on a short ride to church. 

What else needs to be added to the drivers file that hasn't already? The real smoking gun evidence is presented in real time with a skeptical young passenger on his way home for the weekend.

This guy was spot on about everything. The driver is old, sexy, and is probably going to be famous in 20 years.  

During the Lunar eclipse, riding home from the airport, from his best friend's funeral, the rider gives the eulogy that he didn't have the stomach for earlier.  This one made me cry :( ...And a great reminder to celebrate your friends while alive today! 

Too bad this guy is not running for Mayor in 2023.  A grand idea is presented to put Chicago on the map for climate change progress. 

Fathers day 2022 I meet my first influencer, I mean Tictoker. This was immediately after having a deep conversation about life teasing about the same thing. This young lady talks about getting ghosted and closure in ending relationships.  She also talks about going from 0 to 200,000 followers on China's favorite social media platform. 

Sorry for the long wait in uploading! In all my 5,000+ rides this was the realist. It also messed me up a bit and made me cry after completing the trip.  Hope this young man makes his dreams come true.  Like many of my rides there is so much synchronicity going on. 

After commenting on all of life's traumas that have unfolded while living on the Westside of Chicago, growing up in a gang war, the rider explains that we are out here making TikTok videos. Two rides later a TikTok influencer gets in the car and explains her rise to barroom stardom during the lockdown...

Amazingly this ride was on Father's Day 2022, and the young man explains how his father has been locked up for life since he was 1 amongst other very real things.

Two college roomates discuss moving into the City of Chicago after college while we play a little carnival game called "guess my rent."

A guest gets into the car and makes sure her food delivery is there when she arrives. She discusses both her and her boyfriend's ideal partner type and wonders if it's really a fetish. 

 A Purdue Boilermakers superfan describes two of the most memorable moments in her life for obviously different reasons. 

Downstate Illinois tourists coming for a friend's drag show tell us about their best Boystown adventures and a lot of family drama.  

Today's rainout reminds us that the Southsiders will never win another baseball World Series after crossing Chicago's favorite driver in 2006.  Also, Comisky Park has the best food in town and Devil Dogs is second best. 

A college professor chats about his relationship choice and his new family life.  Meanwhile the driver's personal life starts breaking into pieces.