“I thought of you some time in the past.”
A heartwarming interplay an Uber driver uploaded to TikTok went viral for the candid second it captures — two mates who hadn’t seen one another for 20 years
By pure happenstance, the driving force Danny (@danny.b106) accepted a journey from a passenger named John (@johnjohnson8870) who ended up being an outdated pal he labored with at a membership referred to as Phenomenon.
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The video begins with John getting into Danny’s automobile. Danny greets him when he does.
“How’s it going, John?”
“Sure sir the way you doing?”
“Man I am nice how about your self?” the Uber driver asks his passenger.
“I am good man simply attempting to maintain it heat,” John says as he enters the backseat of the automotive and begins luxuriating into his seat.
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“Proper,” Danny says as he places the automotive into drive, and continues, “it is that wind chill that’ll get you.”
“Yeah that wind,” the passenger says as they journey. “That is what’s up right this moment,” the person states as Danny chuckles in response.
“The solar makes it appear to be it is hotter than it’s,” the driving force tells John as they embark on their journey collectively.
It is at this level of their journey the place it first looks like John could acknowledge his driver.
“Been busy this morning?” John asks.
“Sure sir, all the time on Friday.
“All proper,” John says.
“In all places,” the driving force states.
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“So what’s your identify man?” John asks the Uber driver.
“My identify’s Danny,” he tells the particular person driving within the again.
“Man I do know you,” John states. It is at this level Danny appears to be like up into rear view mirror then turns his head to look immediately at John.
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In these silent, temporary seconds, for those who hear carefully sufficient, you may have the ability to hear the coals burning in Danny’s head till he lastly acknowledges who John is. He exuberantly throws his hand into the backseat as a way to dap him up.
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“Man! John! What the f—!” Danny shouts excitedly as he daps up his now laughing passenger.
In a follow-up video, he uploads extra footage from the in-car sprint following his discovery that the person he simply picked up is definitely a pal he hasn’t seen for the previous 20 years.
“What the f— bro godd— I do know you,” Danny says, sharing in John’s laughter.
“I feel I thought of you some time in the past,” John mentioned, referencing “the outdated days” when the 2 of them used to hang around collectively.
He even references an outdated nickname that Danny had for him: DJ Sneakers.
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The 2 males then go on and begin discussing mutual mates and what occurred to them, how one in every of them was good mates with somebody who performed for the Dallas Cowboys, after which talked about another person who went to Oklahoma and began a dispensary enterprise.
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Danny goes on to inform John that he was one the fellows he loved hanging out with essentially the most as a result of they by no means had any drama between them and that they have been simply involved with “earning profits” at “Phenomenon” — the membership the 2 of them have been each employed at.
The Uber driver goes on to name Phenomenon “the s—” however the two males do not appear enthusiastic about working golf equipment anymore, except, as John places it, he is the one proudly owning it.
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“They will by no means be one other membership like that bro,” Danny tells him.
“No,” John agrees.
“By no means,” Danny replies.
Danny says that on the prime of the journey, he thought that John may very nicely have been his long-lost pal, nevertheless, he shortly dismissed the concept.
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“Small world, ain’t it?” Danny tells his pal as they proceed on their journey, whereas including that he hardly ever involves that space, however was dropping a “blind girl” off and he determined to get yet one more fare, and it simply so occurred to be his pal.
Danny promised to publish extra of their drive collectively on-line in a caption for the follow-up video, however as of this writing, these are the one two components he included. He did give a shout-out to John Johnson on TikTok and urged people to subscribe to his channel as nicely.
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The interplay Danny posted on-line ended up getting a ton of views: 9.1 million for the primary clip after which 430,000 for the second.