Should I (as a rider) ask for permission to put on makeup?
This morning (9:30 am) I ordered an uber to church. It’s about a thirty minute drive from where I currently live. Instead of doing my makeup at home, I just showered and decided I’d do my makeup in the car to save time and avoid being late.
I start my makeup in the car, and the driver asks me if I’m going to do my makeup the entire way to our destination. I said yes, then reassure him that I have wet wipes to make sure I’m not getting anything dirty, avoid using powders, and have previous experience doing my makeup on planes/trains/other Uber rides without spills/messes . I also reassured him that he was free to drive at whatever speed he wanted, to not slow down on my accord, as my makeup is fairly simple and doesn’t require much steadiness.
(Simple makeup = a tinted SPF, mascara, tinted brow gel, cream blush, and cream highlighter. It normally takes me 10-15 minutes to do can be defined by most as “clean girl makeup”.)
Anyways, the driver then scolds me stating that I should’ve asked for permission before doing my makeup in his car because that’s the polite thing to do, my makeup has chemicals that “stink”, I should’ve just woken up earlier to do my makeup at home, and I don’t “need” to put on makeup “so early” in the morning.
I was immediately uncomfortable and told him I would stop my makeup but then he backtracked saying “no, no it’s fine now I’m just letting you know for next time, I won’t drop you off here”. (Here= side of the highway that he was slowing down on while he lectured me…)
Anyways, I finished my makeup pretty quickly after that and just put on my headphones the remainder of the ride. He was watching me in the rear view mirror but didn’t say anything until we arrived to the general vicinity of my destination.
(Once we were in the general vicinity of my destination, he dropped me off because he didn’t want to “waste his time” driving me to the actual location so he let me out into the rain on the side of a street.)
The whole thing was just very weird and in all of my years of Ubers/Lyfts I’ve never had this happen before. So drivers, please enlighten me, am I supposed to ask to do my makeup when getting in an uber? Am I crazy for thinking that I could just do my makeup in the car?
TLDR: Uber driver scolded me for doing my makeup in his car without permission.