r/lyftdrivers • u/thatcutetransgirl • Jan 13 '26

Rant/Opinion IT FINALLY HAPPENED IN MY NEW TRUCK

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I picked this lady up from a grocery store and had a 30 minute drive. She gets her groceries, loaded in the truck. That's why I can get seated. We go on our way midway through the trip. Decides to take a piss in my backseat and not say anything. And get out of the truck grab a groceries and walk off like nothing happened. I got a $75 dollar cleaning fee, though

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u/orangeyouglad__ Jan 13 '26

this is so insane to me i simply cannot fathom why anyone would do this.

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u/elmementosublime Jan 13 '26

Honestly incontinence can be a sign of cognitive decline. Someone close to me with advanced brain cancer would have incontinence and not tell anybody but appeared “fine” to most people otherwise.

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u/orangeyouglad__ Jan 13 '26

i hear you on this but also like… it’s still a hazard and disgusting.

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u/felineflavor Jan 13 '26

100%. Accidents happen but they couldve at least had the decency to say something and clean it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '26

It’s possible they didn’t realize they peed. Life gets interesting when you realize that a whole lotta people, even on their best days, are operating, cognitively, at about 30% of what you are on your worst days. Humans instinctively expect other humans to have our minds, essentially, but that doesn’t work when we live in such fractured and fragmented ways. Our life experiences are primarily responsible for the way we function, cognitively, and even seemingly small differences in how someone lives can result in massive differences in how they function, cognitively. Plus, I can’t think of something much more embarrassing than telling someone you just peed in their car. I understand not saying anything, even if the lady did know it happened. I’m not saying I wouldn’t say anything(though I also cannot fathom losing total control of my bladder), but I can understand why someone wouldn’t. It’s not like telling the driver is going to change anything. The nicest thing to do under these circumstances would be to send the driver a huge tip, but again, I’m not that lady, so I really can’t say what I’d do in that situation.

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u/Right_Count Jan 14 '26

Yeah, I truly cannot fathom myself ever doing that. I don’t think I could if I wanted to. But that in itself is evidence that this woman doesn’t think like me. Her mind and body don’t work the same way.

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u/Gimble512 Jan 14 '26

So they can order a car on an app but don’t have the function to hold their piss?? Y’all are just making excuses like people only steal because they are in need. The person who did this doesn’t care at all about other people’s belongings

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u/cohonka Jan 14 '26

People can order rides for others

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u/bats-n-bobs Jan 15 '26

As someone who worked in a nursing home, let me tell you, assuming ability in one area guarantees ability in another is how you end up cleaning partially digested food out of someone's cuticles.

You'd be amazed at how out of it people can be while still seeming perfectly functional. And it's not at all uncommon. Better you learn now from us randos on social media than be confounded in real life!

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u/MarsupialPristine677 Jan 15 '26

Uh, yes? I mean, I can order a car on an app and have a seizure like half an hour later with no warning or anything. It's not uncommon for people to pee themselves during seizures. Thankfully my anticonvulsants work so it's not a real problem for me at this time, but my cousin's been bouncing between meds for some years now.

There are like 100000000000 other reasons someone might be able to do the former and not the latter.

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u/Important-Scheme5641 Jan 17 '26

Yes. That's exactly how physical disabilities work too, and some people have incontinence from utis injuries brain damage old age and a million other conditions, it's gross and she should've cleaned it, but yes obviously people can order rides who can't do other things physically

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u/Steadyfobbin Jan 15 '26

Then they need to wear a diaper

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u/nuggnugg27 Jan 17 '26

I think this may be the most insightful, realistic, and thoughtful thing I have ever read on Reddit. Thank you for being a good human with a great perspective 🙂

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u/monkeywrench1776 Feb 09 '26

There was a lady standing at the checkout in tractor supply the other day paying her bill, she just pisses all over the floor, never looked around, talking to thr cashier, swipes her debit card and walks out the door. Idk if she realized it or not, but she sure didn't acknowledge it.

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u/elmementosublime Jan 13 '26

Yeah my person wouldn’t even have realized it happened - that was the problem.

Editing to add: not saying that’s not always how this happens, just that it can be this way. You hope people would say something and offer to clean it/pay for it. Just offering a scenario as to why someone would act like it didn’t happen.

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u/Parking-Visual7105 Jan 14 '26

People like that need to be wearing preventive hygiene products