I was a rider today with the Uber ride share. My driver's name was Khan. I have his license plate number and his phone number to identify him other than only his name. The ride was ordered by my service advisor from Avondale in Grapevine. This is not my first uber ride from the dealership to home, which is a 23 minute ride to Dallas. The driver was given his route by the google (I'm guessing). However it was not the quickest route and took him about 1 mile out of the way. I immediately let him know that he was headed in the opposite direction. Usually we take 114 to Dallas and he was headed in the other direction to Ft. Worth. Ultimately he got back to the route by crossing over a bridge and making a U turn, and brought him RIGHT BACK to the route, as I was expecting him to be on. He kept defending his choice and my only response was that he was going way out of the way (3:30 during heavy afternoon traffic) and that I needed to get home as I have animals to tend to. I stopped talking about it bec I was NEVER going to be right. His car was dirty, it just felt DIRTY. He was nice enough. Then I looked down in my lap and realized I still had the keys to my vehicle which I had just dropped off at the dealership for repair. I communicated to him that I needed him to take me back to the dealership which seemed to be a problem, unless I contacted Uber and directed the ride to be changed via the app, which seemed weird. Anyway, I called the person that ordered the ride and asked him to redirect me (via uber) to return to the beginning of where I was picked up. During my conversation, Khan kept talking to me and telling me what to do which was very hard to hear him and hear my advisor on the phone. It wasn't necessary for him to interrupt me while I was on the phone, trying to getting the situation handled. My advisor knew what he needed to do. It was awkward being on the phone and having Khan speak to me at the same time, he was just too loud in that small car. I expressed to Khan that I couldn't hear his instructions while on the phone trying to talk to someone about the situation. To note, we were only about 10 minutes into the ride when I realized I needed Khan to take me back to Avondale. Just about when we were turning into my destination, Khan proceeded to admonish me severely saying that I was yelling and screaming at him during the return trip to where he picked me up and that is not how he shd be treated. That was simply not true! So I didn't want to get into a confrontation, but I did tell him that he was interrupting my phone conversation and it was difficult to hear him at the same time as I was talking to someone else. I'm not sure if it was a culture thing with him or what. All I did was tell him I needed to go back and he seemed to have an issue with that unless I went through the Uber app to do so. First of all, I didn't order the ride, so THAT was not possible. That's why I called the person that ordered the ride so he could handle it. When he pulled into the dealership, all the while lecturing me, I asked him to "please stop talking to me". I literally had to ask him THREE separate times, bec he was INTENT ON MAKING ME WRONG for just being a customer. Initially when I told him he was going in the wrong direction, he told me he was doing nothing wrong and that I would not be charged extra, but the thing is, I was not paying for this ride share, so that was not even a concern. While I was on the phone, I told my advisor that my uber driver was making me feel very uncomfortable + I also felt like he was not driving in a safe manner, riding people too close on a 3 lane highway, as it was very congested, having to change lanes quickly (not using a blinker) and then having to brake quickly to squeeze in between cars. When Khan finally stopped the car, all I could think of was I wanted to GET OUT AS FAST AS I COULD, bec I didn't need a sermon about something I was not doing. Again, not sure if it was a man vs. woman thing or a culture thing between a white woman and a male (non white/not black) person. His behavior was inappropriate and uber needs to be alerted of how he treated me. It was unacceptable and very unprofessional. If there was an option for NO STARS, that would be my preferred rating. read more