When you use a ride share app to go somewhere, you can usually expect to be picked up fairly quickly.

What would you do if you saw that the driver was avoiding coming to your house, clearly with the hope that you would cancel the ride and they would still get the cancellation fee?

That is what happened to the family in this story, so they grabbed another ride and waited for the driver to finally give up so he would get nothing.

Check it out.

Try to cheat me on my trip? Enjoy circling the city for free

This happened just now when I called a bolt driver to pick up my family for a ride to the local lake.

As some background info: The app became very successful where I live because the cars are cleaner and the drivers usually friendlier than those of the taxi cab companies.

Some taxi drivers caught on and switched companies believing they could continue their shady ways there: taking detours to increase the cost, having personal stuff in the cargo bay, smoking while driving, you get the gist of it.

To the story: My family wanted to go swimming in the lake which is located on the other side of our city.

This service sounds very convenient.

My sister wanted to take the bus but I suggested a bolt, because the bus station has no shade and there are some constructions being done to the road leading to us.

My husband and son obviously agree because neither like the bus and the car would be faster.

So I order a driver.

The app says it’ll take him about 6 minutes because he needs to finish another ride.

Nothing uncommon, no worries.

My son is exited, hubby and sis are optimistic so we chat away.

After about 2 minutes my son asks to watch the progress which he often does and suddenly wonders why the driver is further away.

I take a look and, indeed, the driver went the opposite direction passing a store.

We surmise that there might have been a construction site too or that he wanted to bypass ours and continue chatting.

After another 2 minutes I check my phone and notice him circling a kindergarten.

Maybe he wanted to take a shortcut and noticed he couldn’t get through?

We continue our conversation.

About time!

After some more minutes I see the driver getting to a crossing which might lead our way.

Finally! The city must be full of construction sites today.

I relax a little but to my surprise he continues ahead, towards the train station, not us.

At this point I realize that he doesn’t intend to pick us up.

He intends for me to get bored and cancel the ride in which case he gets a fee anyway.

I start fuming.

I write him a message stating that I noticed him having difficulties getting to my location and that I do not mind him canceling so that someone else might come.

The driver doesn’t reply but gets on the next main street.

Possible directions: one way towards us, the train station a little further away, a big hardware store very far away.

He chooses the hardware store.

He is clearly avoiding them.

I try to call him but he doesn’t answer.

At this point I’ve had enough.

The driver already wasted about 11 minutes of our time, the bus was long gone by now, too.

My husband calls another car on his phone while I write a complaint to the app including a screenshot of the driver and his car and decide to wait.

This driver is not going to drive me anywhere but I am certainly not going to cancel now.

I will let him get to the corner of my street and then cancel.

After all, two can play this game.

My husband’s car gets to us in less than 5 minutes.

In all this time my driver continues to take the scenic route.

He finally gave up.

After a total of 16 minutes he’s got enough and cancels himself.

I am very happy to have ruined 16 minutes of this man’s life after he tried to cheat me for my money.

Thanks God I wasn’t in a rush otherwise I might have been forced to pay the cancellation fee.

So many people try to scam the system to get a little money for no work.

Let’s see what the people in the comments say about this.

What a terrible situation.

This may be the case.

This scam is even worse.

Wow, three hours is insane.

This commenter had something similar happen.

This driver is giving ride shares a bad name.

As if the whole situation was complicated enough.

Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were traveling for business.