Uber drivers reveal the weirdest stories overheard in their taxis

Admit it: at one stage in your life you've probably divulged a little bit too much information about your personal life to your taxi driver.

For some unknown reason (other than they are obviously very good at their jobs) just like hairdressers, beauticians and bartenders, sometimes you can't help but tell them your deepest and darkest secrets.

From that time you drank too much and ended up vomiting in the nightclub bathroom to a very detailed description of the fight you just had with your best friend and your biggest relationship confessions - your taxi driver has probably heard them all.

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And while you may think your strange and wacky stories will never be heard by anyone other than the taxi driver you treated like a therapist, a new Reddit thread reveals the strangest stories Uber drivers have overheard in their taxis.

"I picked up this young overly affectionate couple that spent the entire trip making out in my backseat and telling each other that they loved each other. Cute," one Uber driver said.

"So I drop off the couple and head on my way to pick up my text fare. I hear a cellphone ring in my backseat, realize it's my previous ride's, and pick up the phone to let them know I have it and I'll come back to drop it off.

"Turns out it was the guys wife phoning to check in on him while he was on a business trip, which he was thoroughly enjoying with his mistress."

Another driver told a heartbreaking story about a girl who told him she had cancer during their car journey.

"Picked a girl up a sweet girl from a bar on a Wednesday night - absolutely hammered, about 10pm. She got into my car, apologized for being so drunk and politely asked if we could just drive around a little while, with the windows down," the driver said.

"I was prepping for a cleaning fee, trying to drive and pull a vomit bag out of the glove box, but no, she just did that airplane thing with one hand out the backseat window. She asked me if I had ever thought about dying, to which I replied, yeah - I guess so.

"That's when she told me that she had cancer. It was in her brain and it was too far gone to consider chemo. I remember my heart just pounding. She told me she was dying and she was going to be okay.

"Tonight she was celebrating with her work friends who threw her a going-away party. She told them she was taking a position abroad.

"'I just didn't tell them that abroad was heaven.'

"Jesus. F****ng. Christ. I turned off my app and cried my ass all the way home."

The stories continued, with another driver claiming his heart went out to a man who was in love with his fiancé's best friend but couldn't do anything about it.

"One time I was driving a dude for a bit of a long trip. Was gonna take around 25-30 minutes. He wasn't hammered, but definitely a bit drunk. It was late and he must've been feeling a bit down, so he confided in me and asked me for some advice," his story started.

"He told me he's madly in love with his fiancé's best friend and he couldn't back out now. He'd been with this girl 4 years, and engaged for 1, ready to be married in a few months.

"Felt bad for the guy because he seemed like he was truly in love with his fiancé too, although he had strong feelings for this friend. He knew that going through with the marriage meant a lifetime of being around the friend and suppressing feelings, but also breaking it off meant that he lost the girl of his dreams. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy, and I hope he's doing okay."

Another driver told a story a girl he took to the hospital after she found out her dad had cancer, only to pick her up the next night when she was drunk.

"Picked up a girl to take her straight from work to the hospital to see her dad. Her mom had called her work to make her end her shift early because it was serious. Her dad had cancer," the driver said.

"I dropped her off and was like "God, I hate this job cause I'll never know how her night ended." wrong. Next night, I'm taking people home from bars and her two guy friends took her out to get wasted cause her dad had died.

"They were being drunk idiots, so when I took them to get pizza, she came outside and we talked about it a little. That was probably the one ride where I felt I had a positive impact on someone's life beyond getting them home safely."

In perhaps the strangest story, one Reddit user recounted the time one of his passengers asked him what he'd do if someone in the back seat started strangling him.

"I got a little freaked out and tried to lighten the mood... but the guy just kept at it. I never drove Uber again," the driver said.

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