Ooh, that smell! Can you smell that smell? In today's video we're going to talk about the many smells that we as rideshare drivers are forced to experience because we're driving people around in a metal box. And stick around at the end of the video I'm going to share with you my number one technique to combat the smells in your car. So everybody this is Jay Crater and today we're going to talk about smells. I'm going to list out six of the smells that I find most offensive and then I'm going to give you two strategies at the end of the video. So let's jump right in. Number one, farts. Yes, if you haven't been a rideshare driver you may not know this but people actually fart in your car when you're driving people around. And the funny thing is they usually act like they didn't do it. Even though it's just you the person in the back and suddenly this cloud of fart hits your nose. The best thing you can do is roll down that window about halfway, suddenly move your head over and gulp down your breasts out of clean air. That's my recommendation with the fart. Okay number two is alcohol. Now I don't drive at night so I don't get a lot of that big fresh you know alcohol smell. But what I do get in the mornings people have been drinking all night is this kind of anxious sweet smell that I can tell somebody's been drinking all night long where they had quite a night of it. And usually I'll say something like, so do you have a big night last night and often wonder how I know but they usually will start to tell kind of an interesting story. It's not really like I got a roll the window down so much but it's definitely a smell that you want to kind of get it out of the car when the passenger leaves the car. Okay number three are outside smells. I was having a chat with my brother Dave who's driving for Uber in Chicago and he was saying it's terrible when he goes over the sewer grates because that smell just comes up through your car. In San Francisco we have the bay you know the actual water and when it gets to be low tide it can really smell pretty bad too certain parts of the bay. All you can do then is set your car so that it's not circulating fresh air from the outside and just drive away get away from the smell. Okay number four is after shave and perfume. So I find it's mostly men in the mornings or before they're going out for the evening they put on way too much after shave and it can be quite offensive at times especially if it's crap after shave. Women they don't seem to put on a huge amount of perfume sometimes you get older women that have a lot but with the perfume sometimes you'll get a smell that's just amazing it's intoxicating. So two times I've asked the my passengers what is it exactly that you have on and what you're seeing right here is two bottles the first one is called bond number nine scent of peace which was absolutely mind blowing and the other one is called rose by hermese for unisex so highly recommend those two. Number five is marijuana and cigarette smoke so in San Francisco getting high smoking weed a blunt a spliff is totally legal and a lot of times we'll get passengers who just reek. I used to make jokes about it and say oh I'm getting a contact high up here but no one seemed to really appreciate my humor so I don't really say anything anymore I'll just roll the window down a little bit and definitely when they get out of the car I will blast them a blast where they were with ozium just to totally eliminate the smell. Number six in my final and the worst one for me the other other week I had a woman get in my car she was a short stout older woman and boy she let out a belch a burp that lasted a few seconds long and then like a wave hitting me in the ocean it was like this warm chilly concarny smell and it was rape halso because I thought where did that smell come from she ate the food and went inside her now it's coming out it's all warm and I don't know it just grossed me out and you know I did the old open up the window for that one I went full steam way open and that felt pretty good. Now what can you do about the smells well as I said before ozium is great so that's one thing you can definitely do the other thing that you can do and this is what I wanted to share with you at the beginning is get one of these okay this is called an essential oil diffuser and you can get it for about twenty dollars on Amazon and all you do is you open this you pour in some water pour in a little essential oil I like to use lavender and then you turn it on can you see that see how that comes out and it's just blowing out this amazing smell of lavender lavender is a very relaxing scent and my passengers love the smell it's really been great I think it helps with tips and it just gives your car a nice vibe if you play jazz or classical music like I do it goes right right very consistent with that theme and it goes for about thirty seconds and then it stops the colors change and then it goes on for another thirty and then when the car smells good I just turn it off and you know every hour or so I'll do a few minutes of it so I highly recommend so in summary you got to take the smell of your car seriously because if you've ever gotten into a car where it smelled bad as a passenger you know that ruins the whole ride for you and you're not going to you're not going to tip that that that driver so have your car smell good you want your passengers to get in and go smells good in here what is it you're doing because then you've made your ride special and you're more likely to get tips so I highly recommend getting this thing an essential oil diffuser and have a great day so I want to thank you very much for watching the video if you have not subscribed yet to this YouTube channel for the the ride share guy by all means do if you're a driver of any kind we cover industry news tips techniques all things to make you a better and more well informed driver come join our team everybody this is Jay creator with the ride share guy wishing you a fantastic day be safe out there