The driver might have got you confused with someone else.
When I get frustrated by inexplicable behavior of strangers, Hanlon's Razor helps a little distancing myself and limit the pain brooding about it would cause...
Almost certainly the driver was using an Uber feature to their advantage. They use Uber every single day and talk to each other - they know how to act so that they get what they want.
"Non masked rider" is probably a way of getting a fee back or invalidating a bad review or something.
Yes it could be that they got a bad review from someone else and retaliated on the wrong person.
Where is the fun in not getting peeved by these things though? ;)
"Non masked rider" is probably a way of getting a fee back or invalidating a bad review or something.