It Started with the Wrong Uber
Did you every wonder what happens when you get into someone else’s Uber and the driver doesn’t speak your language? I hadn’t…until recently.
Which is surprising. I tend to catastrophize when it comes to gallivanting around Paris armed only with toddler French.
I typically imagine myself post-accident: rushed to the hospital, that God-awful siren blaring, reminding me of Anne Frank. EMTs speaking above my head as they poke around my body, me understanding almost nothing.
But I never pictured an emergency in an Uber. After all, it’s prearranged…in English. All I have to do is ask the driver who I am.
“Mon nom?” I ask on this particular night. I’m on my way to a party in a far-away part of Paris…. [continued on Medium, “How to Not Maim, Injure or Somehow Disappear Yourself“]
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