Why Do You Live in a Luxury Apartment Complex on Johns Island?
I dabble as an Uber Eats delivery driver on nights and weekends. Tonight I received the strangest offers back-to-back that I’m struggling to make sense of them.
Picture: It’s 9pm on a Saturday night. Two different orders come in; one for dessert from Insomniac Cookies and one for supper from Pink Bellies. Both on King Street, where one direction is closed and, as a driver, I have to compete with intoxicated young adults, tourists, and massive traffic to find parking and even get to the establishments to pick up. Serves me right, I should have declined, but I was already downtown so I went with it.
But here is what I don’t get. Both deliveries were from King Street to Johns Island. So, after figuring out how to navigate the traffic to get to Savannah Highway, then i turned onto Main Road and then River Road and…now I am on on the road to nowhere, in pitch black darkness with the Stono River to my left waiting ominously for a wrong turn to end my evening in a very bad way. I continue fives miles through the darkness, and then an oasis: civilization, in the form of several luxury apartment complexes, one after another, arising out of the middle of nowhere. I complete both deliveries with sufficient tips to render the trip a semi-success.
My real question is, though…what possessed you to rent an apartment that far into the middle of nowhere? How much are you paying in rent? Do you commute to work in West Ashley or the Peninsula or even Beaufort? Do you work from home? Is your commute at rush hour 90 minutes in each direction?
It just seems like such an odd place to take up residence. No restaurants or shops around, so if you have a late night craving you have to compete against the drunken revelers downtown. Windy roads with no lights and white-knuckle driving at night. Did you rent online site unseen before moving here from Ohio? Im just trying to understand the logic.
Thoughts?