Tonight I experienced the ride from hell. After having a wonderful weekend with my mom, my sister, and my friend Joanna it eventually became time for us to part ways. When we were picked up by the Executive town car service at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles CA, that is when hell came raining down. Town cars are supposed to be comfortable, relaxing, and contain fresh air, but instead we got uncomfortable, nerve-racking, and the smell had Joanna and I on the verge of gagging.

Our driver smelled like he hadn’t showered in weeks, it was honestly the most foul smell I have ever inhaled coming from a humans body. So we got in the car and started to drive away, and I started feeling like he was going really fast so I leaned over to see the speedometer and it said he was driving at 100 mph! I sat there enduring the overwhelming smell and as I was trying to gasp for a breath of fresh air his phone rang and he picked up. As he continued to drive at around 100 mph, he also spoke on the phone with one of his buddies for 10 or 15 minutes (no bluetooth, phone to ear) which is ILLEGAL! And so is driving at 100 MPH!

Finally we made it to Ojai alive after surviving lethal air quality and dangerous driving, yet the ride wasn’t over. When we passed Vons, I informed him that the address on his GPS wasn’t correct. It was the one to the OVS Lower Campus. He began to get defensive stating that if we wouldn’t have given him a different address the price would have been higher because it was farther away. I explained that we had already gone over that with dispatch and he continued to drive, complaining like a little kid on a road trip and asking “are we almost there” every 30  seconds.

FINALLY we arrived at school and were ready to get the heck out of that death trap they call a “Town Car” When we get out and walk back to our dorms, the driver drove past my dorm about 5 times because he didn’t know how to get off our campus so he stopped in front of my dorm and waited for me to walk out to talk to him. When I walked up to his car, he looked at me and said, “I talked to my company and they said that I have to charge you 60 more dollars in cash because I had to drive you 7 extra miles.” I looked at him and told him that i wasn’t paying him any more money and pointed him in the direction of the exit, which he still didn’t find for 30 minutes after.

That was my worst ride in a car, EVER!

Care to share yours?