Girl. Get your priorities straight

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Girl. Get your priorities straight - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

we had some trouble one morning when I was too tired to drive trying to get the dog to the vet. we kept ordering pet Ubers and the drivers kept showing up and canceling when they saw we had the dog. they kept saying they just saw the better rate and didn’t realize it was because we had a dog with us. except it took like 10 minutes each time we had to try and get a new driver and we were trying to make it to the appointment on time at risk of them canceling the appointment and charging us a fee. is Uber going to reimburse me for the missed appointment fee? it didn’t come to that in the end but it was very stressful.

Next time when the Uber accepts the ride, hit the message button and tell em “Hi, I’M CARRYING A DOG”, at least they can cancel the ride right then and there instead of driving over to you to cancel.

It sucks it has to come to this but drivers can be all sorts of clueless

Muslim drivers and some other cultures also want nothing to do with dogs.
i thought that was pigs
There are a number of animals considered unclean and most of it goes back to which animals had diseases before modern agriculture and veterinary practises. I.e pigs used to be riddled with tape worm. Dogs were often carriers of other parasites and if wild likely rabid. There’s some common sense behind it historically but most modern practitioners don’t think about those things.