My daughter and I recently enjoyed a 3-day whirlwind visit to our former home town. Anchored by the annual Winter Gathering concert, where alumni are invited back to join the group on select songs, we breakfasted, brunched, lunched, suppered, dinnered, and snacked our way through multiple reunions with friends. We also did movies, cheap-tacky-Santa, sleep-overs, and fit in hair cuts. We even got to spend time with a Rose Princess and her rightfully proud Rose Parents.
We were able to essentially cram half a year’s worth of socializing into 72 hours, despite having two people with completely different schedules and one rental car through a new service: Mommy-Uber, or MUber for short. Like it’s more famous commercial enterprise, all it took was a phone call or text, and the Mom (that’s me) would pick up the passenger (my daughter Sarah) at a friend’s house and drop her off at Starbucks, pick up at the movie theater and drop off at the sleepover location, pick up at Panera with a stop by home base to repack.
MUber: all the driving, none of the panache of “chauffer.” And it’s FREE!