Uber themes

There is an odd phenomenon where some nights will have themes tied to them. Something that occurs more than a couple of times and is unique to the night. Tonight was basketball hoops. It started because I kept driving around them in the street, which is where you put them in the city when you don't have a driveway. I think it was 3 while in KCMO, when I got to Independence and saw another one and it clicked that was the theme. When my next passenger told me he was the house with the basketball hoop I chuckled to myself. The last passenger had 2 more on her 5 min route. I know that once you notice something you tend to notice it more, but it does take something to make you realize what's happening. Then for a passenger to say it after I had already thought this. No passenger has ever said "the house with the basketball hoop" before, it had to be tonight.

In the early days I was doing themes every night because it was all new and things stood out more. But there is this thing that's happened a handful of times where I'll be in the same neighborhood twice in a week that I've never been in before or since. It sounds reasonable at first because I'm going to pick up passengers nearby, but I'm talking about going there, then going completely away, across state lines or even the next days shift, then coming back. In two cases I was within 3 houses. I mentioned this to the passengers both times, but they seemed indifferent, oh well haha, just the algorithm playing with me.