Rides & Rants

Rides & Rants Rides. Rants. Repeat. 🐻💨 Coco the Rideshare Bear here — hauling stories, spilling tea, and dodging traffic one wild fare at a time.

Twin Cities mayhem guaranteed. 🚦😂 Before I became a ride-share driver, I was a creative whirlwind, transitioning from a drum & bugle corps show designer and choreographer to an underground house music rave DJ. Then life took an unexpected turn, and I found myself in the corporate world, working a 9-to-5 in the finance division of a bank. After spending 20 years climbing the corporate ladder from a

n entry-level Account Manager to Operations Manager, the COVID-19 pandemic left me unemployed, just after I had refinanced my mortgage for a $60,000 home improvement. The situation was further complicated when George Floyd was murdered just a couple of miles from my home, turning my neighborhood into a focal point for the ensuing riots. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, I faced a traumatic experience that left me with PTSD and deep depression. It took four years of therapy and healing to regain my strength. When I was ready to reenter the workforce, I discovered gig economy work as a ride-share driver. This role allows me to set my own schedule while gradually rebuilding my confidence. Join me as I share my journey, the stories I encounter with passengers, and the rants that come along the way. It’s a new chapter filled with resilience, creativity, and a whole lot of adventure! 🚕💨

05/02/2026

Shout out to the drunk couple screaming at each other… who thought they were getting in my car with him in sweat shorts and nothing else… 😌 no shoes, no shirt, no service. byeeee.
🚙🐻✌️

04/29/2026

Today’s passengers included:

• a woman who put in the wrong destination, refused to update it to where she actually wanted to go…
→ then threw a tantrum when I ended the ride exactly where she booked it…
→ couldn’t update the destination…
but had no problem finding the 1-star button 🫠

• a woman with four kids (five passengers total)
→ in the smallest/cheapest ride category that caps at four… and at least two needed car seats 🙃

• alley pickup pin guy
→ set his pin behind the house, so I went… behind the house…
then threw a tantrum because I wasn’t out front 🤦‍♂️

• 20th floor caller 📞
→ yelling at me while I sat at the curb waiting because she apparently didn’t like the spot I was idling waiting for her to grace me with her presence 20 minutes after she booked the ride… 🙄

• a morning block where I accepted 7 rides but onlycompleted 2 😌
→ the other 5 made it very clear before the door even opened
they were not getting in my car 🚗💨

• a blind passenger at the airport
→ started the ride convinced I was going to steal her luggage
→ ended it asking me to drive her everywhere
because I narrated the whole ride so she felt safe ❤️

• half a dozen near-accidents on the freeway 🛣️
→ courtesy of other rideshare drivers with no business being behind the wheel of anything.

and one college kid
who tipped $20 cash
to go a quarter mile. 🫡

he understood the assignment.

Happy “everyone is on Coco Bear’s last nerve” day
to all who celebrate. 😌

spicy margs pending. 🍹

04/28/2026

Adding a stop the INSTANT I start the trip
is absolutely a tactic…
but if you think I’m sitting in a Cub Foods parking lot
while you grocery shop — somebody done told you wrong. 🚙💨✌️

04/21/2026

We have officially reached that time of day where the app wants me to drive over 30 minutes with multiple stops for $7 🤡😬🫠

04/17/2026

Starting my day at 2AM hits different.
Already blasting something called HotBoi 🤷‍♂️at full volume.
The request lines are open… apparently. 🚙💨😬

04/11/2026

Her first Rideshare ever…
and she was terrified. 😭

You’re doing great, sweetie. 🚗✨

04/07/2026

Back-2-Back Karens wanting ALL the things means this is a good stopping point for today. 🚙💨👋

03/31/2026

He started crying. Now I’m crying.
Suddenly it’s just
three grown a$s men crying in a Palisade.
😭🚗💨

03/30/2026

Just helped a woman repossess her own car…
after her man broke up with her
over text last night.
🚙💨💅

03/25/2026

Shout out to the 13 year-old using her parent’s Teen Account to upgrade to Comfort… to skip school.

This girl is going places.

03/23/2026

Why is it always the most pretentious entitled passengers who don’t realize they entered the wrong destination…

until we get there. 🤷‍♂️🚙⏳

03/21/2026

It’s called a baby seat…
because you put your baby in it. 👶

And yes — it’s required to ride with Coco Bear. 🚗

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