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A Lyft driver was shocked to discover he gave a TV celebrity a ride – when he dropped him off

A Lyft driver was shocked to discover he gave a TV celebrity a ride – when he dropped him off
NEWFOUND FAME. WELL, EVAN JESS, A LITTLE OVERWHELMED, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE SURPRISED AND SHOCKED ABOUT ABOUT THIS NEWFOUND FAME THAT HE’S HAD AT LAST CHECK THAT FACEBOOK POST FROM MIKE ROWE HAD OVER. 400,000 LIKES. IF I FEEL FRUSTRATED OR BORED MAUD OR SOMETHING, WELL, I CAN JUST JUMP IN MY PICKUP AND TURN ON MY APPS AND GO DRIVE FOR UBER AND LYFT. MIKE MORSE HAS BEEN DRIVING ON AND OFF FOR LYFT FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW. AND OF COURSE YOU DON’T MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY, BUT YOU GET TO TALK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND I LIKE TALKING TO PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT MORE. SNOW THE RIDER, HE WAS TALKING TO LAST FRIDAY AS HE DROVE THE STRANGER TO WILL ROGERS WORLD AIRPORT. IT WAS ABOUT TO BE HIS MOST INTERESTING RIDE YET. I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A STANDARD RIDE. I DIDN’T REALLY REALIZE WHO WAS IN THERE DURING THE 15 MINUTE DRIVE. THE STRANGER STARTED ASKING MORRIS ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WHAT HE DOES. HE TOLD HIM HE RECENTLY STARTED TO BUILD CUSTOM TRAILERS. AS THEY GOT TO THE AIRPORT, I OPENED UP THE BACK OF MY TRUCK AND WAS UNLOADING THE SUITCASES, AND I RECOGNIZED HIM. I SAID, HEY, WHO ARE YOU? HE SAID, MIKE, MIKE ROWE. AND I SAID, ALL RIGHT, DIRTY JOBS. MIKE ROWE, THE TV HOST WHO HIGHLIGHTS THE VARIOUS HARD JOBS PEOPLE DO AROUND THE COUNTRY, ASKED MORRIS IF HE COULD TAKE A PICTURE. I THOUGHT, THAT’S CRAZY. USUALLY CELEBS, CITIES DON’T TAKE YOUR PICTURE. THE TWO PARTED WAYS AND MORRIS THOUGHT HE HAD A COOL STORY TO TELL. LATER THAT NIGHT, HE SAYS HE WENT OUT WITH HIS WIFE AND LATER CHECKED HIS COMPUTER. MY WIFE AND I WENT TO A DANCE AND I GOT HOME ON FRIDAY NIGHT, LOOKED AT MY EMAIL, DALE, AND THERE WAS ABOUT 20, ALMOST OUT OF NOWHERE, STRANGERS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WERE REACHING OUT, ASKING ABOUT HIS CUSTOM CAMPERS, SAYING THEY SAW MIKE ROWE’S POST. ROWE HAD WRITTEN A LENGTHY FACEBOOK POST ABOUT THEIR CONVERSATION AND EVEN FOUND MORRIS’S WEBSITE. MIKE’S PRETTY GOOD CAMPERS. I THOUGHT, MAN, THAT’S CRAZY. HE REALLY WROTE A GOOD STORY ABOUT ME IN THE DAYS SINCE THAT POST, IT HAS BEEN SHARED OVER 50,000 TIMES. AND MOORE SAYS HE’S HEARD FROM HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FROM SEVEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES FINALLY GOT THEM ALL CAUGHT UP. MORRIS SAYS HE’S THANKFUL FOR ROWE’S POST AND SAYS HE WAS JUST BEING HIMSELF DURING THE RIDE. STILL, HE ISN’T LETTING ALL THE ATTENTION GET TO HIS HEAD. I’M GETTING MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME. ANOTHER WEEK IT’LL ALL BE OVER. IF YOU WANT TO READ MIKE RHODES FULL FACEBOOK POST, I HAVE IT POSTED ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE RIGHT NOW. AND BY THE WAY, MORRIS TELLS US BEFORE ALL OF THIS ATTENTION, BEFORE THAT POST, HE REALLY ONLY SOLD ONE TRAILER. I HAVE A FEELING
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A Lyft driver was shocked to discover he gave a TV celebrity a ride – when he dropped him off
An Oklahoma man is going viral on social media for all the right reasons.After he gave Mike Rowe a Lyft ride to the airport, the television celebrity posted about his pleasant experience with his driver and about the driver's start-up business of building trailers.Mike Morse is shocked at all the attention he has been getting over the past few days. At last check, the post from Rowe had over 400,000 likes on Facebook."If I feel frustrated, or bored, or something, well, I can just jump in my pickup and turn on my apps and drive for Uber and Lyft," Morse said.Morse has been driving on and off for Lyft for about a year now."Of course, you don't make a whole lot of money, but you get to talk to a lot of people, and I like to talk to people," Morse said. Little did Morse know the driver he spoke with last Friday as he drove the stranger to Will Rogers World Airport was about to be his most interesting ride yet."I thought it was a pretty standard ride. I didn't fully realize who was in there," Morse said.During the 15-minute ride, the stranger started asking about Morse's life and what he did. He told him he recently started to build custom trailers."I opened up the back of my truck and was unloading the suitcases, and I recognized him. I said, 'Hey, who are you?' And he said, 'I'm Mike. Mike Rowe.' And I said, 'All right, Dirty Jobs,'" Morse said.As they got to the airport, Rowe, the television host who highlights the various hard jobs people do around the country, asked Morse if they could take a picture. The two parted ways and Morse thought he had a cool story to tell. Later that night, he said he went out with his wife and later checked his computer."I got home on a Friday night and looked at my email and there was about 20," Morse said.Almost out of nowhere, strangers from all over the country were reaching out, asking about his custom trailers and saying they saw Rowe's post. Rowe had written a lengthy Facebook post about their conversation and even found Morse's website, Mike's Pretty Good Campers."I thought, man, that is crazy. He really wrote a good story about me," Morse said.In the days since the post, it had been shared over 50,000 times. Morse said he's heard from hundreds of people from seven different countries. "I finally got them all caught up," Morse said.He said he was thankful for Rowe's post and said he was just being himself during the ride, but he isn't letting the attention get to his head."I'm getting my 15 minutes of fame. By next week, it will all be over," Morse said.Morse said before the post, he had only sold one of his trailers. You can find his website here.You can read Rowe's whole post here.

An Oklahoma man is going viral on social media for all the right reasons.

After he gave Mike Rowe a Lyft ride to the airport, the television celebrity posted about his pleasant experience with his driver and about the driver's start-up business of building trailers.

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Mike Morse is shocked at all the attention he has been getting over the past few days. At last check, the post from Rowe had over 400,000 likes on Facebook.

"If I feel frustrated, or bored, or something, well, I can just jump in my pickup and turn on my apps and drive for Uber and Lyft," Morse said.

Morse has been driving on and off for Lyft for about a year now.

"Of course, you don't make a whole lot of money, but you get to talk to a lot of people, and I like to talk to people," Morse said.

Little did Morse know the driver he spoke with last Friday as he drove the stranger to Will Rogers World Airport was about to be his most interesting ride yet.

"I thought it was a pretty standard ride. I didn't fully realize who was in there," Morse said.

During the 15-minute ride, the stranger started asking about Morse's life and what he did. He told him he recently started to build custom trailers.

"I opened up the back of my truck and was unloading the suitcases, and I recognized him. I said, 'Hey, who are you?' And he said, 'I'm Mike. Mike Rowe.' And I said, 'All right, Dirty Jobs,'" Morse said.

As they got to the airport, Rowe, the television host who highlights the various hard jobs people do around the country, asked Morse if they could take a picture.

The two parted ways and Morse thought he had a cool story to tell. Later that night, he said he went out with his wife and later checked his computer.

"I got home on a Friday night and looked at my email and there was about 20," Morse said.

Almost out of nowhere, strangers from all over the country were reaching out, asking about his custom trailers and saying they saw Rowe's post. Rowe had written a lengthy Facebook post about their conversation and even found Morse's website, Mike's Pretty Good Campers.

"I thought, man, that is crazy. He really wrote a good story about me," Morse said.

In the days since the post, it had been shared over 50,000 times. Morse said he's heard from hundreds of people from seven different countries.

"I finally got them all caught up," Morse said.

He said he was thankful for Rowe's post and said he was just being himself during the ride, but he isn't letting the attention get to his head.

"I'm getting my 15 minutes of fame. By next week, it will all be over," Morse said.

Morse said before the post, he had only sold one of his trailers. You can find his website here.

You can read Rowe's whole post here.