I forgot to tip my ride-hailing driver. Am i too late? | members only

_I WAS LATE FOR A MEETING, AND FAILED TO TIP AND RATE MY UBER DRIVER WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE CAR. HE WAS HELPFUL AND KIND, AND NOW I’M FEELING GUILTY. IS IT TOO LATE?_ Unless a lot of time has

elapsed since you exited the vehicle and failed to rate and tip the driver, you’re probably not too late. But don’t be too hard on yourself; it’s perfectly understandable why you may not

have given a gratuity to the driver just then. You already indicated that you were running behind. Often when you’re in an Uber or Lyft — the two most popular ride-hailing services in the

U.S. — all you can think about is getting where you need to be. If you weren’t late for a work meeting, perhaps it was a doctor’s appointment. Or maybe you were coming home from the airport

after a long flight delay and were zonked. Whatever the reason, you were distracted, so you forgot to tip. And when that happens, many of us may not remember until the next time we open the

app. In a regular taxi, passengers pull out cash or a credit card to pay the fare before leaving the car. It doesn’t quite work the same when you’re compensating an Uber, Lyft or another

ride-hailing driver through an app. RELATED: Heroic Uber driver stops to rescue people from fire TIPPING A LYFT DRIVER AFTER YOU’VE LEFT THE VEHICLE You have up to two hours after a ride has

been completed to rate and tip a Lyft driver for the just-completed journey. Options to rate and tip show up in the app. After two hours, you still have up to three days to add a tip for

your gig worker inside the app. But you have to do a bit more digging. Tap the HAMBURGER MENU ICON ☰ in the upper left corner of the screen — it has three horizontal lines stacked on top of

one another — and tap RIDE HISTORY. This summons a list of all your rides. Tap the ride in question, and assuming you’re within the 72-hour limit, tap TIP DRIVER. Alternatively, you can add

a tip through a link on the trip receipt you should have received via email. If a TIP DRIVER link is no longer available, you can contact Lyft Customer Service and supply the driver’s name,

time and date of the ride, pickup and drop-off locations, and the amount you want to tip. Worth noting is a Lyft feature that lets you set a default tip amount. Visit SETTINGS, again found

under the hamburger menu, tap SET DEFAULT TIP and choose a default amount by percentage of the ride, listed as 0, 10, 15 or 20 percent, or by dollar amount listed as $0, $1, $2 or Other. By

the way, I know you’re, pardon the pun, uber-generous. But Lyft does have an in-app ceiling on tips, up to $50 or 200 percent of the ride cost. RELATED: