Portuguese Uber driver wants us to wait in heavy rain the moment he arrives and enter within 10 seconds or he considers us "too late"

So here's what happened

So I order Uber right to the gym. And we're very fast, because we have our stuff already, we already have our gym clothes on.

Uber takes like two minutes to arrive (and it fluctuates a lot in Portugal, it can be 2 minutes or 15 minutes so you never know)

After one minute wee go outside.

Outside it's raining heavily and the stairs are wet. So we walk down, you know, carefully to not fall and die. We have big outside stone stairs from the front door to the ground. I'd say it's about two floors down

Then we arrive in the Uber car in front of the house and we sit and say "Olá, tudo bem" to the driver (Like, "Hello, how are you?")

And he answers "Next time, I can suggest..."

First he said it in Portuguese and stuff. And it's kind of unclear, I say "Voce falar Inglês?"

And he says "Next time, next time, I need you to be ready."

I'm like, "What do you mean?"

He's like, "Well, when you order, you need to be ready.”

I say, "You mean we were not ready?" Like, "Did you wait too long? Like, how long did you wait?"

"No, no, it's okay, it's okay. I didn't wait long, but you need to be ready.”

I understand it's because the street is straight. So if some car comes, he needs to move. He says he doesn't want to wait.

Fair point, so I say, "Okay, but we were at your Uber within one minute of you arriving, you know, probably less."

So he means we need to wait him at the street. He wants us to wait outside. Like, at the same time he arrives, we should immediately enter the car within 10 seconds.

But that's impossible because it's raining heavily and the street is slippery.

I ask him friendly “Do you want me to change something about how I do this stuff?"

"No, no. Next time, next time"

But man, this is the vibe with Uber in Portugal with Portuguese drivers, there’s always this condescending vibe when they’re over age 50.

You enter and it’s always like “No, you did this wrong.” or “I give you a suggestion” or even “You live in the wrong place”. It’s so Kafka-esque. You’re always wrong with Portuguese drivers. I feel like Portuguese always want to teach you. You know, they want to preach like, "You're doing everything wrong. Here's how to do it." It's like Twitter repliers. It's insane.

So that's the story.