# An apology to MeanOldLady

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 2, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-meanoldlady/713982 "2015-03-02T04:17:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-meanoldlady/713982/45 "2015-03-04T06:45:13Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> No, the OP was not addressing people who don’t use/know of ride apps at all. She was saying that Lyft sucks and _of the population of people who use ride apps_, most people use Uber anyway.
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> It wasn’t about the normal population of the entire world. Just Uber being the more popular app.
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> Yes she did go off on people being ass-backwards for not knowing what the apps were but that was in reaction to **Gato** ’s big stinking turd of a post.

I’ll disagree with that as well. Apparently, according to **MeanOldLady** , I’m not literate as well. Oh well. I just read it differently. No big deal, but I’ll explain how I saw it differently.

When she posted:

> [@In case you were wondering, Lyft sucks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-you-were-wondering-lyft-sucks/713802/1):
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> You probably weren’t since you use Uber like a normal person

in her OP, it gave me the impression that she was saying that normal people use Uber. That made Uber the topic of discussion. Yes, I realize that she was comparing Uber to Lyft, but it could be read in a couple ways, IMO. It was slightly ambiguous to me when I first read it, so I could see how it might be to others.

Once other people posted and then got castigated for posting their experiences with Uber, I can see why they might have gotten a bit defensive. It probably went on a bit long in that thread. But I don’t think it was completely out of the question to interpret the post as it was in the beginning of the thread.

There was no question posed in the OP, so that left the topic a little more open to interpretation than if there was a focus. It wasn’t entirely clear what she wanted other people to post about in the thread. She might have wanted other people to validate her experience with Lyft or to talk about their negative experiences with Uber or just their experiences with either. That left it open for people who had non-experiences with Uber, IMO.

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