{"id":7552,"date":"2026-04-10T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:30:41","slug":"top-5-discoveries-i-made-when-my-lyft-took-me-to-my-date-an-hour-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/top-5-discoveries-i-made-when-my-lyft-took-me-to-my-date-an-hour-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Discoveries I Made When My Lyft Took Me to My Date an Hour Late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, I went on a date the other day with this guy I met on Hinge. I had everything arranged\u2014we would meet at 3pm at Millennium Park, walk by the lake, maybe grab something to eat\u2026That would\u2019ve been amazing! But no, my fricking Lyft driver had to get stuck in traffic. And then he had to get trapped in Lower Wacker. And then he had one chance to escape Lower Wacker, but no, he got back in. What the fuck? I wanted to punch him in the face so badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I also made some important discoveries that day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Don\u2019t schedule a date on a day of major nationwide protests. Even if the roads clear up, your driver\u2019s GPS will not be updated on time. You will be late.<\/li><li>Sometimes, walking is good for you. I never liked walking, but when your options are walking the entire Loop or getting stuck with a driver who has a fetish for Lower Wacker, you choose the former. Although the guy could still do the bare minimum and drop me off on the sidewalk instead of the middle of Lake Street.<\/li><li>Even a shitty phone will do a better job than the one my driver uses for GPS. Like, literally, I\u2019ve been walking around with a phone that cost $250 three and a half years ago, and I still had a more functional GPS than him.<\/li><li>My mom was asleep. I tried sending her a message to catch up with her while my driver was figuring out how to use a loading dock as a portal to the train station, and she didn\u2019t respond. What the heck, Mom?<\/li><li>I should have taken the Metra. Seriously. I paid ten times as much to get to my destination an hour later. I should get a prize for this. Apparently, the price of freedom is $3.75 for a one-way ticket to downtown.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I went on a date the other day with this guy I met on Hinge. I had everything arranged\u2014we would meet at 3pm at Millennium Park, walk by the lake, maybe grab something to eat\u2026That would\u2019ve been amazing! But no, my fricking Lyft driver had to get stuck in traffic. And then he had to get trapped in Lower Wacker. And then he had one chance to escape Lower Wacker, but no, he got back in. What the fuck? I wanted to punch him in the face so badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}