(Sponsored Content -- ) Uber Technologies recently reported 1.64 billion trips completed during the third quarter of 2021.
With so many trips given, drivers are bound to have an array of stories while interacting with customers. Batbold Baldbaatar, a Seattle-based Uber driver, doesn't hold back when it comes to unique experiences he's encountered while working behind the wheel.
"Every day you see different people, and then it's just sometimes it's no fun at all," Baldbaatar said. "I had some of the actors from the Hollywood, you know, like I had the guy who played the Aquaman ... the guy with the long hair. I picked him up the other day and I didn't know it was him."
After allegedly picking up actor Jason Momoa, who played the lead role in the 2018 superhero film Aquaman, Baldbaatar was asked by the celebrity to pick up his friend at at alternate location. After the ride-hail driver picked up his friend, Momoa then allegedly began drinking an alcoholic beverage. After Baldbaatar reminded the duo that it is against Washington state law to drink in a vehicle, even if the person drinking is a passenger, Momoa then allegedly requested that the driver pull over to let him drink his beer on the road.
"And then his friend (asked me), 'You know who the guy was?'" Baldbaatar recounted. "He said, 'You know, this guy is the guy who played Aquaman and he is a Hollywood star.' And I said, 'I don't, I don't give a s**t, you know, I don't do that. You know, the rules are the rules, right?'"
Baldbaatar said that Momoa allegedly apologized for doing something illegal; and the Aquaman star and Baldbaatar took two pictures together, one inside and one outside of the vehicle, before Baldbaatar dropped the friends off at the airport.
"When I dropped him off at the airport and there was like a lot of ladies and girls coming around and 'Hey, I want to take pictures,'" the ride-hail driver said. "Then I realized he was a kind of star."
Baldbaatar, a former lawyer when living in Mongolia, has been an Uber driver for more than four years. He also drives for Wingz, Lyft and Amazon Flex. He is married and a father.
"There are people from all over the place and their language and ethnicity, and everything is different," Baldbaatar said. "It's just kind of interesting meeting with different people every day."