After a full 6 months of Uber driving college aged males home and after spending the last handful of those months up late at night watching drunk people and intoxicated folks walk home from bars alone and stagger to the point where you almost worry for their safety.....
My theory:
These guys get so hammered that they end up getting into a situation they either can't defend themselves during or they just get lost. I have picked up two males around the age of 20 to 24 years old whom admitted to me that they tried to walk home but decided to request an Uber after hours of walking around aimlessly after a hard night of drinking!! This 'ish really happens.
I was a firm believer in some wild and crazy cult running around or a serial killer on the loose but....after working this job and hearing it directly from the horses mouth sort of speak, I'm now not even slightly a believer in some darker plot.
Both of the men I picked up in Vermont and provided rides home to, both of them were miles away from where they were supposed to be and had no idea where they were when I got there Uber request.
Both had admittedly gotten lost and spent hours walking aimlessly through a city in the summer time that is no bigger then the smallest neighborhoods in some of these cases! Burlington Vermont is a small place and one of these college kids, a UVM student had started on his way home at 10:30pm on a Friday, only to walk around for hours and for miles until he was to tired to continue.
What would have happened to this kid if he hadn't decided to use an Uber?? Or if he had gotten dehydrated to the point where he was to confused to request a ride.... Burlington is one of the safest places on earth.
If these things happen in bigger cities these kids as good as gone, robbed,tossed or just lost.
The other factor here is something I didn't even know a drunk person could do which is just totally lose track of time. Combining this with dehydration (side effects which include - memory loss, difficulty hearing, loss of depth perception, loss of a sense of surroundings, ect,) with the side effects of alcohol (side effects which include dehydration and perspiration,spins,loss of consciousness,vomiting,fatigue ect,) and you've got a recipe for a really bad night if left alone and in a new city or even one that you've known for some time!
My theory is that these kids get hammered and then walk off the alcohol in a matter of minutes or hours and then suffer severe side effects from a terrible case of dehydration and confusion.
The other kid I gave a ride to was less the a half mile from his home and was not drunk, but when he started he had been drunk and he told me that he thought it was the strangest thing because he knew he was close but could not find his home!! THIS $#it really happens!! It's not the boogie man or a nation wide serial killer, it's bad decisions made by kids and it only takes that one time when the setting is just right, the weather is just hot enough (or cold enough) and the person is just dehydrated enough..... Sometimes the truth is stranger then the fiction.... Correction... Most of the time the truth is stranger then the fiction!!
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