I'm driving the 6 hours to UNC today with total strangers.
I'm not worried, I've done it dozens of times before.
I just have to pick them up at the Dunwoody Marta station, and off we go!
This is the first time that I'm the driver in these little meet-and-rides I like to do.
I like to think that I'm a safety-savvy lady with an excellent judgement of character. First, I'd like to you know, that I only do this with college students who obviously underwent some criminal background check before they were accepted into their university.
While at UNC, poor, over-charged out-of-state students set up a website where we could sell each other furniture, share storage units, and, yes, offer rides to our respective places of origin. Consider it a type of Craigslist for only those with a UNC email address, so you know have some sense of security. After graduating, I submitted a "Good-bye, wonderful ride board" post stating that I'm a recent grad that plans to make weekend visits from Atlanta, but would love company. I got emails and facebook "friended" by two young lovers (UNC and Ga Tech first-years) wanting to visit each other. And so, I am giving Jack, the little Techie, and his friends a ride up for the Homecoming game. Call me an environmentalist, cupid, whatever, but don't call me stupid for taking/giving rides to strangers, because there is a safe way to do it. I am actually staying at my friend's apartment at UNC that I met on a street corner in Atlanta for the first time to ride-share back to school. You never know where you are going to meet your new best friend.
I'm not worried, I've done it dozens of times before.
I just have to pick them up at the Dunwoody Marta station, and off we go!
This is the first time that I'm the driver in these little meet-and-rides I like to do.
I like to think that I'm a safety-savvy lady with an excellent judgement of character. First, I'd like to you know, that I only do this with college students who obviously underwent some criminal background check before they were accepted into their university.
While at UNC, poor, over-charged out-of-state students set up a website where we could sell each other furniture, share storage units, and, yes, offer rides to our respective places of origin. Consider it a type of Craigslist for only those with a UNC email address, so you know have some sense of security. After graduating, I submitted a "Good-bye, wonderful ride board" post stating that I'm a recent grad that plans to make weekend visits from Atlanta, but would love company. I got emails and facebook "friended" by two young lovers (UNC and Ga Tech first-years) wanting to visit each other. And so, I am giving Jack, the little Techie, and his friends a ride up for the Homecoming game. Call me an environmentalist, cupid, whatever, but don't call me stupid for taking/giving rides to strangers, because there is a safe way to do it. I am actually staying at my friend's apartment at UNC that I met on a street corner in Atlanta for the first time to ride-share back to school. You never know where you are going to meet your new best friend.
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