INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Key to earning as much money as possible during your Uber shift is limiting the times during which you aren't in your car. Rather than looking for parking and spending valuable time (and money) finding somewhere to buy food during lunchtime, consider packing a lunch or other meal that you can eat comfortably from your car while pulled over. Your bodily needs are unavoidable during a long day of work, but you can limit the time and gas you spend looking for places to use the restroom by searching your map for public restrooms in the area where you're working. If a passenger requests a destination that is in a suburb or less densely populated area, it's important not to stay there after the trip is complete. You'll find much higher demand for Uber in busy urban areas, so always make an effort to search for new passengers here rather than in less socially active places (especially ones where people are more likely to drive their own cars). Uber will often text drivers with advice on where to head to find lots of passengers. However, this causes lots of drivers to head to "high-demand" areas, reducing the likelihood of surge pricing and of all drivers even managing to find passengers. By merely avoiding the areas that Uber texts about, you increase your likelihood of finding passengers. Uber turns on surge pricing according to the number of Uber drivers operating in an area, which is determined by the number of drivers logged into the app at a given time. You can increase the likelihood (and rate) of surge pricing by logging out of the driver app just before typical surge price hours - for example, just before 1am on a Friday night or just before rush hour on a weekday - and then logging back in a few minutes later, after passengers have started requesting rides en masse. This increases both the likelihood that a surge will occur and the surge rate that passengers experience when requesting rides. While the driver app does not allow you to see other Uber cars in the area, the Uber passenger app does. If you find yourself without any passenger requests for an extended time, download and open the passenger app. You may find that the map shows you many other Uber cars in your immediate vicinity. When this happens, drive away from the other cars on the map (it may take less than even a mile) and you will increase the demand for your car's service. This trick involves a tradeoff between supply and demand of Uber cars. Ideally, you should drive as far away from other Ubers as possible without leaving a well-populated area, where the demand for Uber is likely to be high. The average Uber trip in the United States is 6.4 miles. By driving much longer than this to pick up a passenger, you greatly undermine the trip's value to you as a driver.

SUMMARY: Stock up on food and water. Make a note of public restrooms. Head to central areas during downtime. Ignore Uber's texts. Increase surge fares. Use the passenger app. Don't drive over 10 miles to pick up a passenger.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If this girl isn't someone you're already on friendly terms with, start with "hi" and take it from there. Don't overthink this, just start a conversation. Then as you see her around school, talk to her and start to get to know her. Ask her if she'd like to join you during lunchtime. Tell her you're going to see a movie with some friends and ask if she'd like to go. Something like this will also give you an excuse to get her number. When you talk to the girl you're trying to impress, be interested in getting to know her more deeply. Ask her questions that show this interest. It's hard not to take notice of someone who seems genuinely interested in your life and what you have to say. Ask her about her family, her interests, what she wants in the future, anything like that, and then let her steer the conversation. Just be careful not to turn the conversation into an interview. You shouldn't be asking questions constantly, like this is some kind of interrogation. Let the questions be open-ended, and insert comments about how you can relate to what she's saying as the conversation continues. Girls want guys who can make them laugh. If you want to stand out to a particular girl, making her laugh should be one of your main tools. In group settings this means taking risks by making funny comments when they come to you, and teasing your friends and the girl you like in a playful way. When alone with her, you can flex your funny bone by making funny observations about something around you, and telling humorous stories about your life. Don't try to impress her by pretending to be someone else. She can sense it. Openness and sincerity can be very impressive. When you're alone with the girl you like, try to steer the conversation in a more personal direction sometimes. Talk about things dear and important to you. Just make sure you don't do too much of the talking. There's no better way to get someone's romantic attention than to flirt. Good flirting skills are impressive because so few people, especially school aged, have them. Look her in the eyes when talking to her. Send deep gazes her way every once and a while. Compliment her when you have the opportunity. Other examples of flirting include: finding reasons to innocently touch her, like hugging goodbye, and teasing her in a friendly way.

SUMMARY:
Start establishing a friendship. Ask her about herself. Use humor. Be real and honest in front of her. Flirt to impress.