I’m a rideshare driver in Atlanta. I ask riders to share their stories anonymously with us - Slide into the backseat and take a listen!

This episode has 5 separate Stories told by people that got into my car thinking that I was going to get them from place A to B, and I did, BUT I also asked them to share a story from their life during the ride. After agreeing to this, I hand them a mic and let them tell us whatever is on their heart. 

This episode includes themes of giving your gift back to young people through teaching, desperately wanting a family, losing your wig, dealing with a habitual liar, and working with some pretty extreme fetishes.

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Welcome to backseat confessions podcast slide into the back seat as we listen to mostly anonymous strangers tell us stories from their lives.

I'm a ride share driver in Atlanta and the people getting in my car.

I have absolutely no idea.

I'm going to ask them to share.

My commitment to you is to tell at least a snippet of virtually every story recorded in my car in the order they were told to me.

My hope is that you laugh, cringe cry but mostly connect to these amazing people.

You may find a piece of your own story or just feel more connected to the rest of us join us, won't you?

So hey, my new friend, this is an adult podcast themes and languages are definitely not suitable for everyone, listener discretion is advised.

Well I hope you will enjoy episode four as much as I do.

This one starts with an inspirational story and then the next three are about struggle with some funny moments mixed in and we end with a pretty crazy story.

My guess is this episode will stir up more conversation potentially than the first three episodes and I'm okay with that.

So let's get rolling.

Our first story today starts with an artist that is grateful for what his craft has given him and is literally processing in real time with us.

This dream in his head of giving back to young people kind of cool that he says that this was the first time he'd really shared his dream with the world.

I, I suddenly feel like dancing story number 16 monday november 2nd 2020 11:10 p.m.

Um Well, I have, I have this dream, right?

So I um I grew up as an artist training and uh and dance specifically and um I uh went on to have a really successful career as a dancer and then I um start, I I moved to the midwest to give back to a community there and I it actually inspired me to continue to learn and to grow and to develop as an artist.

And so um I went back to school and got a master's degree and dance and choreography and then continue to grow and develop as a teacher as a creative as in, you know, um mentor and educator.

And so I'm I'm I'm at this point in my career where I feel like I wanna start to develop something that's the really that this is the first time that I actually am uh saying this uh on this kind of a platform, right?

But I live in a community where there's a lot of support for the arts and there's a lot of great talented young artists who are also equally brilliant academics.

And so I really would love to develop some kind of either performing arts school or university or community arts center that focuses on pre professional and and and diversion kind of dance training and eventually grow into all other arts.

I'd like to start it with um with just dance because that's what I that's what I do and then bring on a team of other creatives in other genres, music, voice theater, who are like um really at the top of the field and I mean I really feel like there's something really special about artists who have um who have had careers in their fields and then like leave that to go and and and teach um and who are genuinely dedicated to educating kids and making them better because you know, I feel like there are some educators who are in it for themselves and that's something that I've learned after crossing over, so to speak.

And um there's something really special about artists who are who want to give back in that way.

So I want to team up with a bunch of artists who are willing to give back in that way um who can help the kids.

So that's a dream of mine is to, is to create something like that, wow!

Well I totally blessed that dream.

That's amazing.

I mean that's I accept that.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

Um wow, well, I hope and pray that your dream becomes reality and that you positively affect the lives of many, many young people.

Yeah.

And what better way to do it than through teaching and through the arts, you know, and you know, people become doctors and lawyers and engineers and epidemiologists and all of the above after training as artists.

So you know, I just want to impact the world.

I love it.

Thank you so much for your story.

My man, some of my favorite people are ones who have made it in a particular industry or achieve something special in their life and their instinct is not to hoard their success or to just gloat and talk about how freaking great they are, but their heart is to figure out how to share their gift with the world around them in a way that lifts and helps and heals man, I I can start getting a little misty eyed just thinking about this and I truly hope this amazing man is able to berth his dream into the world sir.

We need more people like you.

This next woman's story was a revelation to me on how this project could be so much more than just entertainment.

Her story is one of deep longing frustration, pain, depression and also somehow hopeful.

But what I learned was that by giving her space to share, I had unintentionally, of course given her a gift, I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like I do the most good when I'm kind of clueless and it's by accident story number 17 monday november 2nd 2020 11 50 pm.

Well 2014 I think was the most teachable moment for me.

Um because I turned, I just turned 26 that year.

Um and I was always told that I would never be able to have a child.

So um my mom used to bring me to all sorts of doctors and they said that you know, I would never be able to conceive, but 2014 um I fell in love with this guy and a month after meeting each other, I found out that I was pregnant.

I was like, I mean to me it kind of revived me in a way where I felt like, okay, well I'm finally living because before I never really lived, I just was just, it was life was whatever, I didn't care about anything, but then suddenly I had this extra heartbeat in me.

I said, wow, I have to in order for it to make it beat when it comes to life.

I want to make sure I wanna make it beat by a drum, Like give it a good life, make sure that, you know, she's here, she's never wanting anything, but um come to find out um my body doesn't really respond to babies so I can't really hold them.

I can just, I'm not even and that was six years ago, it's about to be seven.

So now it's like, you know, I don't I'm just kind of living because that's what you have to do, I don't really, I'm not really happy, I don't really care about life, but I know that I'm 32 and I have to make something of it because that's what you're supposed to do, but if if me, I think I would have died a long time ago, but because the family that I have and the, the kind of like Jamaican roots that I have, it's like, you know, you're a woman, so you have to be strong, they don't know what depression is, they don't know what anxiety is, they don't know what being sad is is just like you have to just work, work, sleep, work and that's it.

So I just feel like now, you know, um I carry that tragedy with me because I just think that, okay, well, you know what, um it kind of revived me in a way where I'm still going because of the tragedy, because it's like maybe one day God will surprise me again and say, okay, well I'll give you what you want is a family and and the reason why I'm working so hard is because maybe somehow that if I work work, work to my bones fall off, maybe he'll award me by giving me a family.

So that's pretty much my story and how many you have two jobs right now?

Yeah, I have two jobs and I started my third one um as soon as my fingerprinting come back Yeah, I just work because I feel like that's the only thing that makes me a human.

Um I feel like maybe somewhere somehow I'll, because I really don't care for the money, I, I want to live because I want to get things that I want and not have to ask anybody for it, but I mean if it was up to me I would, I wish I could just disappear and I don't, if it was me, I want to just disappear and just just run away and just all the people that know me, I want them to forget about me, I want that, I just want to just disappear into like some island and just be a beach bum but I would never do that because I'm just hoping one day, like I literally begged God every day to just like, you know, let me have a family because that's the only thing that I want, like I don't want, I don't care for I know I have to live as far as like housing.

I know I have to get a house.

I know I have to you know, be able to, you know when I bring a child into this world, make sure that I can sufficiently take care of that child because but but one thing I know that I'm gonna give that child is love and just and not take that love for granted, you know, it's just I wish, I wish me getting a family was so easy, but I see all these people out here and they, you know, you could kiss somebody and they get pregnant like my sister, she has like she's on her fourth child right now and it's like, wow you know it sucks because we came from the same mother and only one uterus works but you know and I'm sure you've thought of everything and it's such a complicated uh you know not being able to have a child is so complex but have you thought about adoption because you seem like you'd just be an incredible mother.

Yes, I've thought about it all the time and that's one of the reasons why I want to get a house is because I want to be able to you know provide for the child.

So yeah I've always thought about adopting.

Yeah because I mean and I've never adopted.

I don't think I would have the patience or the right right.

But the people that do, I think they're saints.

I think people like yourself who are thinking about adopting and and those people that I know that did I just to me they're some of the most amazing humans on the planet.

Um So and I think yeah you're you have a strong family around you, you're obviously an amazing hard working woman with so much love to give.

So yeah I can totally see your you'll have a family one way or the other.

I just believe that for you.

Thank you this is so refreshing because I had a lot of things that was balled up that you know um that I've always wanted to get out and I try not to talk about like the tragedy with anyone, but it weighs down on me every single day.

Why do you not want to talk about it?

Why why do you not talk about it?

Um I just feel like it's you know, it's redundant and I just feel like I don't want to come off as you know this sad sad person, but you know since I want to be honest and um I'm I've always been jealous of my sister um because she's able to have a family and it kind of sucks because um me and my family we're really not talking right now so um so I just feel like I've always said you know um if I ever have a family is like I feel like I'll get a million dollars because uh you know, but you know, I just feel like I'm running a rat race, I'm running you know, a rat race, that's that just keeps spinning and spinning and spinning, you know?

But life is something else.

It is.

Well I I hope that you do get the house and that you do get the family but that you also um get to live with the understanding that you're enough, you know what I mean?

Because you're you're actually you're amazing not because of the things you do or how well you perform, but you're just amazing because that's how you were created.

Thank you.

That's the nicest thing I've heard in a long time.

Well it's true.

You're and you're going to be an absolutely an incredible mom.

Thank you so much.

Thank you and thank you for sharing your story with me.

Of course, of course, thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this man.

My pleasure.

Some sometimes, you know, God introduces you to some some people not by mistake.

So it made me feel better because now I could probably go to bed with some type of peace, wow, wow, that's amazing.

Thank you for that.

Because that makes me feel good about doing this because this is like a passion of mine.

But you know, sometimes you're like, why am I doing this exactly Other than I just like to hear people's stories?

But then this I'm like, oh, okay, every once in a while, maybe it's bigger than just hearing an amazing story because a lot of times people have a lot to say, but they don't know how to express themselves.

Sometimes we just need to hear that we are worthy not for what we do, but because we are beautifully created beings, however imperfect we are for everyone who has ever struggled to have Children and struggled with inter family relationships.

I think your story is just so relatable joy.

I hope you find what you're looking for, my friend?

Have you ever had the dream that you woke up naked while out in public.

You start freaking out because well you're naked out in public and you didn't intend on that unless you're in a nudist colony and then that isn't a nightmare.

It's just your everyday life.

But I digress.

This lady ends up being a bit more um exposed than she'd planned for story number 18, Tuesday november 3rd 2020 12:20 a.m.

Okay.

So this summer I went out of town with my friends, we went to the beach um and we in the beach and all but see I knew that my my wig wasn't glued on.

So my plan was to just go, you know right there at the you know at the shore where you know the water's not too deep, but my friend was like come on, you know this is our first time being together, it's our first time going out of town together.

So come out deep with me and I did.

And the wave came and took my whole week in the ocean.

Like it just got it was over with I tried to grab that.

I was telling a stranger grabbed my wig, grabbed my wig there just looking at me like I have no wig out in ocean.

Oh my goodness!

This probably was the craziest moment I had this.

I love it.

Well it sounds like that's about right for 2020, right?

Uh 2020.

I wish all that I had lost in 2020 was my toupee.

But I think we can all relate to moments of public embarrassment when things just don't go as planned at all.

But at least she's laughing at it now.

Okay so have you ever had something offered to you?

That was truly just too good to be true.

Like you were getting a life altering offer but then it just doesn't go the way you were picturing it.

So this next writer has a friend who may not be the best choice of human to associate with.

Oh and on a completely unrelated note, I've been in touch recently with this Nigerian prince and he seems like a really great guy.

Um And he just wants to send me like millions of dollars.

So just f y I I'm gonna be stupid rich next time you see me.

Okay.

Story number 19 Tuesday november 3rd 2021.

31 A.

M.

Okay well um about I guess it was the year of 2016.

I purchased I purchased a house to rent to basically you know start selling houses for you know make money that way.

So it was going pretty good.

I rented out all the rooms and while I was doing the reason I did this was so I could pursue music and still have an income.

So um it was working there for a little while and then one of my friends comes to me and she says that her dad passed away so she was gonna give me $100,000.

She was leaving her.

Yeah he left, he had all this money and I guess insurance and through his job.

So she was supposed to receive $250,000 and she was gonna give 100 to me.

This was just a Wednesday.

She just said this.

So I'm freaking out.

I called my mom like blah blah blah and my mom can't believe it either.

So then we start working on the process of getting the money like she had to go sign papers to get the money and Uh the letterheads and everything.

So we're supposed to get the money.

I think it was maybe in like 28 days later.

So 28 days later came and um nothing we hadn't heard anything from them.

So my mom called to check and make sure the money was still there.

I called, we all called and they said just give them a little more time the money would come.

So the people that were living in my house because I was receiving this money, I said that um they didn't they were all gonna have to move out because I was going to turn it into a studio.

I said that there but for the inconvenience, the next two months would be free meaning they could stay there.

You get them saying for two months for free because I'm getting a new home.

So everyone's excited about that of course.

So um it came down to maybe three days before move out and my mom came because we had to go to chase bank to get the money from the, for the check.

So we arrive at chase and then she, she had some issues.

We didn't know really what was wrong, but Um, comes to find out, my mom called the state farm insurance suggest.

Finally, this is after maybe 75 days of like waiting, you know?

And uh I canceled my lease, I told my landlord I will pay it completely off.

And the lady on the form on the phone says that all the letterheads and things that were sent to us, my friend had made them.

So, so at this time now we find out that she, she actually received the money two years prior, her mom, her dad had died two years prior and she had already spent the $250,000.

So in the, in the meantime, she basically, I canceled my lease as I told you, I gave people two months rent free, started a whole new life.

That was all, that was all just make believe, yes, I could not, I couldn't, I really couldn't believe it.

And then when I, when I asked her about it, she was like, she didn't know, she just acted like as if she didn't know what was going on, but I obviously she had to, so um I was like, oh my God, this girl is crazy.

So you would think I would stop messing with her you know what I'm saying because I figured like in a in a weird way I figured I knew she would probably want to do that for me.

But that's you know when it comes to people's life you do not play about stuff like that.

So I got I didn't speak to her for I think a whole year.

Then I came in contact with her again.

She called me at seven a.m.

In the morning and she said hey can your friend give me a ride to Ellijay Georgia?

And I said where is Ellijay Georgia?

She's like it's about it's it's far but I'll give him $7000.

You know she she sent me the picture cause her dad was in the military, he accumulated a good deed of money.

So I'm like why would you give someone $7000 for a ride?

She's like I need a ride, no one will take me.

And I said what do you have up front?

You know because my friend said he'd do it of course like you know jumping leap up and I'm like now listen this is the same girl that said she was gonna give me $100,000.

He was like man she wouldn't like okay just ride with this.

So I wrote with him down there of course I complained the entire time because I'm still kind of bitter you know from from what she did to me and he's like, he eventually gets mad at me and like, you know, you know, you're just down in the mood, this is she has the money, so we go in, she goes in the house, gets the money, she comes back out, we're headed back home because she was going to get a check.

So while she's walking out, I hear jingling like as if like, you know, change, you know what I'm saying?

But a lot of it, you know, so of course we're driving home and I'm like, how about you show me on the money, you know what I'm saying?

It sounds like you're being ridiculous.

I know she has it and he was like, just so she'll shut up, just show us the check all of a sudden the check is missing, she can't find it.

So pull over on the side of the road, my friends like, okay, clear out the car and I'm trying not to laugh because now I've already told you that she was playing games and I said, I heard why would someone that has that much money come out, jingling, I mean she was jingling seriously?

So he snaps, he goes back to her house, he basically tells her she doesn't, you know, she needs to produce this check because he drove out there I guess, you know, not thinking of gas money back, not thinking, not thinking the whole situation through.

So it came out that she had got $7.50 and she really just needed to write down there to get a letter a letter.

So he was he was mad, he was mad, okay this is the last part, this is the worst part I the home I was renting, I got to stay in maybe four months after the situation because the landlord kind of you know he felt a little bad for me so he allowed me to stay.

So I am walking to go cash a check that I got from my texas.

Finally as I'm walking down the street a car tries to hit me like literally is trying to come onto the driveway to hit me at first I'm a little shocked because I'm like and then I turn around and I'm like are you trying to hit me?

And he says no I'm trying to hit her, meaning the girl, the girl that has done all this stuff to me, right?

Someone is literally trying to hit her with the card.

So I'm like what?

I turn around, she's gone that fast that fast from from him trying to hit us, me turning around and saying something to him, she's obviously running away.

So then I um I walk up to him, I'm like what's the problem?

He's like I'm gonna kill her and I was like what did she do?

He said, she told me she needed money for a work shirt or something and he took her to walmart right, she got the money, she walked out the back of walmart and never came back.

He said this happened eight months ago and he just happened to spot her right?

And but what God, So good.

Because I said um I was like, you know what?

If you can give me a ride to cash my check, I'll pay you know what I'm saying, your debt to her, you know, and it'll be cleared up.

So I had to go find her, she was hiding under my bed, I went back home, she was under the bed, scared to death, and I was like get from under the bed, like we're gonna ride with me and I paid the man off or whatever.

But um it's just that I just that was just my experience of just a psycho girls, like so many situations you would think I would have learned, but like she is she is crazy, crazy.

So yeah, crazy bitch.

Seems like a teeny weeny bit of an understatement, right?

Makes you wonder what kind of childhood she had.

Was she just spoiled beyond belief with no boundaries or was there abuse or what anyhow?

I hope Miss J stays away from her acquaintance, Let's call her because not even the Oscars need that much drama.

So I have very little control over the last story in an episode because generally I'm trying to get five writer stories in and I'm telling them in the order they were told to me of course, but I'm always hoping that the last story will be memorable somehow or have a punch of some kind you know it just makes for good podcasting and I want to take us out on a high.

So yeah this last story.

Oh wow!

Um there's no good way to set this story up.

Miss Sherry here has a let's let's just say she has a very adult profession and I think even in her line of work this gentleman stood out so uh anyone have a humiliation fetish out there, no judgment just just wondering story number 20 thursday november 5th 2020 12 42 am Okay so one time I was in Lakewood walking around and I seen this guy and we will keep well I would keep walking and he was driving around in circles, he rode past me like three times and then he stopped, he asked with my name and he was like do you do fetish?

And I told him yes I do fetish.

And so we went to the room on Virginia Avenue and when we got to the room he told me what kind of fetish he like, he like when females shit on him and uh piste piste on him but he really like when somebody shit on him and spit real harsh and like in his mouth.

Yeah so what he did, he bent um he got on his knees and I was on the bed or whatever.

He wanted me to spit in his face 100 times and uh it was hard, it was real, yeah, but um I had did it or whatever and he wanted and He wanted me to do it 100 times, so I spit on his face 100 times.

After that.

Before that he gave me my money though, and then after that, or whatever he said, did I have the ship?

And I told him no, I do not help the ship and that was really it.

He took me back and I've never seen him again.

I lost contact, Wow, had to spin it 100 times.

You probably run out of spit after like 20 times, right?

Uh well no, at first I did because it would make me sit in my stomach, but then I had build up some more spit to spit in his face, so wow.

Yeah, yep, I tried to tell you, that's not an easy picture to get out of your head, should spark some interesting conversation with other BCP listener friends of yours.

Uh side note, you should be of course sharing this podcast with your friends so you can have conversations like what the heck just happened.

But anyways remember the next time you want to complain about your job, There's sherry here as exhibit a I mean you may have a crappy job but you're just spitting in the wind if you're going to try to tell me that it's tougher than hers.

Okay, that was decidedly lame, but it's all that I could come up with on short notice in all seriousness.

I hope the rest of your week is closer to our first writer who shared his dreams of making the world a better place and a little less like the other folks that shared their struggles.

But remember even if you're struggling, you can't lose if you're learning and hopefully you'll even get a great story out of it.

This is what happens when you are a ride share driver in Atlanta and ask people for their stories.

These weren't handpicked people with great stories, they just happened to get in my car and be gracious enough to share with all of us and who knows maybe someday you'll be in Atlanta and need to grab a ride share and end up telling the rest of us the next great story on BCP.

I'd actually encourage you to every so often just ask a stranger to share a story from their life.

You never know what you might learn.

I believe that our stories are powerful.

They can make you laugh, cringe cry or even get you to think or feel differently.

Our stories can truly make this world a little bit better place.

So please subscribe rate and listen to this podcast and share it with as many adults as possible.

It would mean so, so much to me.

First and foremost, I want to thank the incredible writers who trusted me with your stories.

You're my heroes, thanks also to all the people in the background who have believed in this project slash Dream.