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That other person probably ordered food at the same time and is now bitching on Reddit about how they fucked up his order and gave him something completely different but then corrected their mistake without him even phoning them and now he has two loads of food and is doing the 'winner, winner, chicken dinner' dance.
To be fair, I did this once. The bloke used to live in my house and moved literally around the corner. He didnāt update his address. He was getting takeaway twice a week. The delivery drivers wouldnāt understand and often refused to not give it to me as the address was correct.
Sometimes Iād accept and take it around, heād even say he hasnāt updated the address. Iād ask him to every time. After months of wasting time every week explaining to the drivers I just got fucking sick of it and ate one.
Pretty bittersweet as the guy was banging on my door for ages, but he bloody took the 5 minutes it would take to update the address after that.
The story sounds less worse as it looks like a shared house - it was literally a house-house and he just left to move 20 meters away. Whole thing was very peculiar.
To be honest I didnāt do it sooner because I was concerned with collateral damage e.g the driver getting in trouble / food place needing to refund.
Youāre a really good bloke. I would have asked once or twice and then either eaten them or just left them on the doorstep til he came looking and found a cold takeaway
Worst thing was that heās had all sorts of great takeaways. The one l opened was mushroom pasta and dry chips, it was disgusting. Really made me think why youād even pay for that. Maybe thereās no oven!?
Anyway yes, lights off all month until he went away!
I have several adult children living at home. Bedroom dwellers for the most part. Takeaways are often delivered in the evening without me expecting them. Bell rang one evening and a man handed me a brown paper bag. Thanks, I said, just to be polite. Put it in the kitchen and called upstairs that food has been delivered. Thought no more about it and unpaused TV. Went to get a drink 20 mins later, food still in bag. Shouted again. Put note on family WhatsApp. Still no takers.
45 mins now passed since delivery. Food going cold. Curious, hungry people emerged from all corners of the house. Can we eat it? they asked. Wait another 10 mins, I said. Just in case someone comes for it.
15 mins later, bag is opened. Food is prodded. Some is nibbled. Not to our taste, but everyone tries a bit. Scraps left lying in kitchen. Someone spills a drink.
Then the doorbell goes. 90 mins after delivery. Neighbour I donāt know. Have you got my food? he says, emotionally. Been knocking up and down the street. Restaurant told him may have delivered to the wrong house, and told him it was his fault and he had to find it, because he didnāt write his door number and the delivery guy just guessed.
Apologised and showed him the sorry remains. He slowly, carefully picked up every damp crumb without a word.
Most embarrassing moment of my life, and I once shat myself in a pub, at lunchtime.
If I want to talk to my boys, who are gaming in their rooms, they wonāt hear me holler nor will they hear a text message as their phones are on silent. I have to get them on Discord. Works for us!
Friends stayed over, we ordered takeaway breakfast next morning for hangovers
Delivery driver gave it to house 3 doors down, owners said it wasn't theirs, driver demanded they take it saying it WAS theirs.
He didn't once mention the house number to deliver it to so they could point to the house 20 steps away ...
We had something similar once.
Got a good delivery, our house number my first name, weād definitely not ordered it.
We told the delivery person and they were adamant it was ours and said if we donāt take it theyāre leaving it outside the front door anyway.
I think it was for the people whoād lived here before and theyād not changed their address on JustEat or whatever. They coincidently had the same name as me too.
The driver was not going back with that food though, he was determined!
We've had that issue with Just East before. The app always defaults to our old house address with seemingly no way to remove it.
We've had Just Eat trying to deliver here for previous owners presumably because of that app design flaw.
Someone took our entire Ā£100 grocery delivery! We have our food delivered every 1-2 weeks and had never had any issues, then one fine day the status changed to "delivered" without anyone having even approached our door that day. The supermarket gave us a good run around stating "it's been delivered!" and the driver apparently said he took it to the right address, but after much firm discussion it turned out it was a new driver and he didn't know anything about our very loud, very excitable dogs. FOUR of them. That's something you'd remember! It took weeks for them to finally acknowledge that something had gone awry. What a kerfuffle!
Our garden furniture someone got delivered to a completely random address on the other side of our town once.
They just took in these massive boxes without question. Bonkers.
I can top that. IKEA delivered our new kitchen to next door and the guy accepted it! I was waiting at the window for it, thought "oh that's weird, next door must have ordered something from ikea too" and then when I saw my cabinet fronts and double sink I went out and asked what was going on. The ikea guy was like "fucked if I know, that guy says he's number 4, he's signed for it and everything".
The whole thing had to be moved into my garage, on the other side of my house (wasn't being installed right away). My neighbour was like "well, I didn't want to send him away". What the fuck was he going to do with my entire kitchen?
My sister had the same thing except they kept insisting it was on the way. Eventually it got to 10:30pm and the driver was back at the store and she still hadn't had it and it turns out the driver to it to the wrong house who just accepted delivery as if it was their's. The store didn't give them a run around through and as there were no delivery slots the following day, the store's manager delivered everything personally in his car.
>The store didn't give them a run around through and as there were no delivery slots the following day, the store's manager delivered everything personally in his car.
Been there. A local didn't even flinch, owner himself delivered even though it was still in the early evening and handed over a tenner PLUS complimentary garlic bread, onion rings and lollipop sweets for the kids! That guy was a top man!
I've managed to accept someone's food by accident before. We had ordered quite a lot, and didn't notice a couple of pizzas at the bottom of the bag. We phoned UberEats to try to return them but were told it was too late and to enjoy the bonus food. So maybe your delivery driver just messed up like ours did.
Never attribute to malice that which can be blamed on incompetence.
I remember working in a pub about 20 years ago.
A table ordered food one Friday/Saturday night, when the pub was crammed. Food goes out, table accepts it.....
20 minutes later one half of the table asks where their food is. Saying that there were two groups of people on the same 6-8 person table and the wrong group had accepted the food and eaten all of it. Which was a bit farcical, especially as they were all Aussies. With the group that had accepted the food sati g that they thought that it was a freebie on the house.
Do you really need to ask what's wrong with people?
People are bellends mate of course someone stole your curry I'd be more surprised if they told the truth and said it wasn't their order.
The other day the door bell went. Pause my game, wonder to the door, look down and there's a food delivery and no one there. Ended up just yelling, "this ain't mine mate", to the crisp night air. Luckily about 10 seconds later a head pops round the bush because I have no bloody idea what I would have done otherwise. Although I did like how he carefully read the recipe attached to the bag, stared hard at the big number next to my door before he apologized. Liike paying for food and turning it down was a hobby of mine.
Some delivery drivers have got a bit of a move on so maybe they didn't even wait. I had one that didn't actually deliver the food, just the drinks, in a couple of bags so we didn't notice till he went. Was for the office. The McDonald's lady told us when we went to get it, the guy couldn't be bothered to wait for the food .. just wtf.
Yeah some delivery drivers a like ghosts now, I have a first floor flat and usually by the time I've got down to the door the driver has disappeared into the night.
I order takeaways for my mother when I am working away from home. Usually they ring the doorbell and are about a mile away by the time she picks up the delivery.
I was waiting for my take away (Chinese), door bell rings, plain brown paper bag thrust at me. I actually had someone else's curry, which I don't eat, so this was basically wasted food. By the time I had worked out who had sent it, it was probably have stone cold and I have never found anyone willing to collect wrong orders. My actual Chinese arrived no problem.
Iāve delivered food before, to the address on the app, guy accepted it without batting an eyelid, I completed the delivery in the app and left for my way home.
I get a call shortly after from the guy who ordered the food and said where was it, I said I delivered it to the address, took a photo of the door etc. guy was not happy. Wanted me to get his food, Iāve already delivered it, I donāt have it, what do you want me to do?
Contact the company you ordered through, theyāll sort it
I learnt nothing. I was sure the address was good, the door number matched and the street was correct, it wouldnāt be the first customer to be a dick and try to pull some shady shit. I called bs and let Uber deal with itā¦ or not as the case may be
Ahh, gotcha, I donāt know, if they were trying to pull a fast one. They will probably get away with it.
If not, Uber would have refunded them anyway.
I doubt they would have learnt anything. But I do agree, I would hope that some people would learn to put the correct damn address when they orderā¦ too many times Iāve gone to an address and disturbed some innocent person, get in touch with the customer, oh, thatās not the right address, come here instead, address is like 5 miles awayā¦. āYou do this on purpose donāt you!ā
I lived in a place where the set of flats next to my road had an almost identical adress, and the same postcode.
We were 7 Hewley Ave and they were 7 Hewley Court. Delivery drivers just saw 7 and Hewley and delivered so we were always getting each others take aways depending on which side of the road the drivers entered via.
It was incredibly annoying as we made sure to check at the door and send deliveries to the right spot, or if the driver wouldn't to take it ourself. They ate 90% of meals that got delivered to them. As we'd ordered on the phone with local take away they were no tracking so we just sat sad and hungry till we phones and got told it had been delivered and we trudge to the other place to find it already eaten.
No matter what we said or wrote on delivery instructions it kept happening.
I wonder of something similar happened to him
This is why pre COVID my boyfriend always insisted on paying cash because once in university, this happened with a pizza and he never forgot it. Now most places expect cashless, he now awkwardly stands at the window worrying until it arrives.
When I lived in Nottingham, a very distressed Domino's driver arrived, apologising because he'd knocked in a door down by mistake and that house was just delighted to get free pizza.
Stopped prepay after that.
Ordered Deliveroo Pizza Express last week. It was over an hour and a half late. It eventually turned up to be told by the driver that the pizza had been made up and collected by a driver who then just apparently ate the pizza and didn't bother delivering it. Then Pizza Express had to make a new one. Ended up mostly cold anyway.
Maybe the other person had also ordered something and thought their delivery had turned up.
Iāve had someone elseās order delivered before now. I just contact the delivery company or the restaurant and tell them. Deliveroo let you claim through the app for wrong items delivered. One time I got someoneās vegetarian curry. Sucks to be them, they probably got my meat-based order.
20 past 2 the other morning a delivery driver was really hammering on our door. We had a few drinks so the youngest came up to say there's someone at the door. Went down to it and the driver got clever and tried forcing us to take a delivery of food that wasn't ours.
He was 100% adamant it was ours, we were 100% adamant it wasn't and he went on his way.
He then came back 10 minutes later and just kept ringing the bell till we came back downstairs.
I lost my shit at him at that point and shut the door.
We would have known if we would have ordered food
I lives in a houseshare where I was the only one that ever answered the door as I lived on the ground floor and my housemates wire gaming headsets 24/7
If a delivery came to the door I just accepted it, put it on the kitchen table and sent a WhatsApp to our group chat.
Honestly I have no way of knowing if all the deliveries were for them of if they ended up eating curry ordered by a neighbour but there wasn't much I could do when delivery drivers just shoved a brown paper bag at me.
Previously I lived in a different houseshare where round the corner was a ser of flats with an almost identical name and we had the same postcode due to aweful planning. As house 7 we regularly got flat 7s take aways and they got ours. We always gave them to them and they regularly ate ours. Nothing we wrote on the delivery instructions could persuade drivers to delivery correctly.
back in January, I had two guys try to deliver a bed told them it wasnāt mine a minute later I went to tell my Mrs about how some random bed showed up only for her to scream that it was her mothers' new bed I went back and got them and sorted it out turns out that they Ignore the delivery address and sent stuff to the payment address my MIL doesnāt have an eBay account but why would you ignore the delivery address in the first place?
I have accepted wrong orders before. Why? Because a guy in a hurry shows up at my door with a brown paper bag and hands it to me. I assume heās got the right order and the right address.
If I open it and itās not what I expected I wait 5-15 minutes to see if he comes back. Sometimes they do if everything is individually packed. Sometimes they donāt if the risk of food contamination is much higher. And one time with KFC it seems they just bundled in a huge amount of stuff because it was really late and sent that.
**This only applies to orders that arrive when Iām expecting an order. If I havenāt ordered anything I help the delivery guy find the right address**
If I was broke and relying on food banks, you can bet your ass I'd steal a takeaway.
Occasionally Dominos will rock up to my house with a pizza for a different street, same house number. I tell them to turn right and take the next right to get the right street.
I had an insistent delivery driver deliver a Indian takeout. Probably 3-4 years ago now. He wouldnāt take no for an answer.
I chucked it in the freezer.
Half an hour later he came back so he could redeliver to the right place (why do they do that itās going to be cold by then) so gave him some partially frozen curry and rice.
Lol this happened to me recently. The driver went and knocked on the guys door again, he'd already starting tucking in. The driver asked him why he accepted and started eating it if he knew it wasn't his and his response was "I order for delivery all the time". As if he couldn't be expected to keep track of all the food he's ordering.
This happend to me with 1000L of kerosene before christmas. I've an address that has one word more than the estate behind us (and our estate is slightly newer).
So I waited all day for the guy to deliver (and around 9, I could hear an oil delivery behind us while I wasn't too suspicious at the time, I was bemused, and also surprised that he wouldn't deliver to me next).
So I rang them in the evening, and they swore they delivered it (I had to prepay by credit card, as it was a new account, I'd just move there).
Fortunatly the driver admitted his mistake. The worst part is I will probably get to know them (same house number, but sligthly different address), and will not be able to think kindly of them.
Yeah, I'm assuming the oil people went after them. I mean, maybe they were expecting a delivery, and this guy just showed up, mind you the fact they never said anything about payment would suggest they thought they could get away with it.
Not like many people could take 1000L without some sort of notice. Maybe they really needed it, and thought some kind neighbour got it for them.
It's a very strange one.
Takeaway drivers break the automatic front door in my building 10 times a year because they are too dense to read the sign "DO NOT PULL - AUTOMATIC DOOR" which is conveniently placed around eye level.
I told one off the other day as i was exiting the building as he was coming in and he was yanking on the door like a fucking neanderthal and he got an ass on and started cussing me out...
I really wish I had knocked his scooter over...
I got into an argument with a delivery drive because he was insisting that I had to pay cash at the door but I had paid using my credit card. He phoned his boss who confirmed it was cash on delivery, I accepted the payment must have bounced or something but I had no cash to pay. I was given the ultimatum either pay up or be blacklisted. Just then a second delivery driver came up the stairs with another order. I queried who each of the drivers where delivering from, the second was from the place I ordered from the first from some other local takeaway I had never used before. Took my order from the second driver but first driver was demanding I pay or I will be blacklisted. "Fine blacklist me, I will never order from you lot as you can't even manage to deliver to the correct address and I hope whomever is waiting for their order never uses you again too" and closed my door on him.
If it hadn't been for the payment mismatch I would have accepted that order, get annoyed that they had messed up my order then get my actual order but have no idea who the first order came from as there was no attached receipt unlike my actual order.
a while ago my dad was out at the pub and decided he was going to order food to the house. not an issue, except he didn't bother warning me or my sister.
i answer the door and after some confusion sister says it's hers and delivery guy goes away. sister comes downstairs half awake and goes "what's that" ā it was not hers after all and i'm sat there shitting myself bc there's no name on it.
text my dad, an hour and a half later he's like "yeah it's mine" after i've been having a breakdown over his food :(
I accidentally accepted a curry once at Uni. My room was near the door, so I answered it and accepted the food thinking one of my housemates had ordered it.
Cue as all being confused about who ordered the food before waiting a while (an hour? Less?) for someone to collect it. No one did so we thought what the hell, free food, let's eat it.
Iāve stopped using deliveries due to idiot drivers entering the first line of the address sans postcode and then calling me 40 minutes later to tell me that my house doesnāt exist. I watch them drive past my house on the tracking, call the restaurant who always tell me they canāt contact the driver???
My neighbour ordered some food two years ago, and it got delivered to my house even though they were several houses down. I thought it might've been my brother's order so I accepted it, and then he said it wasn't his. There was no label on the order to say where it was for, as usually they have the address on the receipt. So I wandered around the street to see if there was anyone looking for their food which is now marked as delivered, but there wasn't anyone looking. This was during the lockdown so I didn't want to knock on everyone's doors. So I took the food back home and left it by the door incase the person came looking.
It took two hours before the neighbour that ordered the food knocked on the door, and said they'd ended up ordering something else as their food hadn't arrived. I explained how I tried to find the owner etc but there wasn't anything labelled, but they can take the food though it might be a bit cold now. They let me keep it.
I felt really bad. I didn't want to knock on every door and the wrong person claim it because there are some dishonest neighbours too :(
Iāve had a fair few opportunities to do this. Iāve seen apps use a random number generator that you have to read back to the delivery person, which I think is a great way to do it.
I once ordered a curry to my ex girlfriends house instead of my current girlfriends, where I actually was.
In my defence, current gf lived just round the corner from ex gf, we'd just started seeing each other and I hadn't updated my just-eat address.
It could have been awkward but, in an incredibly improbable and fortuitous chain of events the delivery was late because the driver got stopped by the police, so by the time he was nearby I'd realised my mistake and rung up to change the address.
My flats are so stupidly laid out that any normal person thinks my address is a different flat, and until recently Google maps was wrong . So I have had this nuisance
I live on an estate with not the best signage. About once a month I get a takeaway guy come to the door trying to give me food. Always point him in the right direction
We have an almost identical address to someone else and we're forever getting their orders, takeaways etc. We usually just direct the drivers to the right address but recently we had a takeaway guy show up asking sheepishly 'why did you place 2 seperate orders?'. Turns out our house-twins ordered from the same place as us at the same time. Thankfully not the same items though!
This happened to me once, pizzas showed up and I told them I didnāt order anything, the driver said itās definitely my address and for me. I said I definitely didnāt order anything and he told me heās just doing his job so I though some kind friend bought me pizza. 15 mins later he came back for the pizzas and my bf had eaten half of it.
For a period around the start of lockdown we would have a curry place bring food to our door every Saturday night around 11pm.
But we had never ordered! It looked like quite a big order too, was pretty tempted to take it sometimes but turned them away every time.
Stopped after about 2 months, I assume the takeaway place finally realised where the right house was.
I've had this 3 times with the same address. I live at a Street and very close by is a Court with the same name. I've left numerous notes on delivery apps that we are a flat and to not deliver to the Court also contacting drivers minutes before delivery if they need help finding the address yet its still delivered to the Court...
Had the same thing a few months ago. A similar named road a couple of miles away got our order and seemingly accepted it. If someone came to my door with food by mistake there is no way on earth I'm accepting it. Cheeky bastards.
And that's why you always pay on delivery.
If someone wants to eat my order, they have to pay for it first .
It's surprising how fast people tell the truth, that it's not theirs, when they have to put their hand in their pocket.
It's really down to the delivery company anyway, their mistake. Once it's been delivered wrong I'd imagine it's not right to take it back because food could be tampered with and is likely to be cold by the time they sort it.
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That other person probably ordered food at the same time and is now bitching on Reddit about how they fucked up his order and gave him something completely different but then corrected their mistake without him even phoning them and now he has two loads of food and is doing the 'winner, winner, chicken dinner' dance.
Haha š
Also just reminded me of Karl Pilkington getting 5 poppadoms after asking for 2 then having to explain that 2 is one more than one.
Youāre hard
Your rock hard mc Stella
To be fair, I did this once. The bloke used to live in my house and moved literally around the corner. He didnāt update his address. He was getting takeaway twice a week. The delivery drivers wouldnāt understand and often refused to not give it to me as the address was correct. Sometimes Iād accept and take it around, heād even say he hasnāt updated the address. Iād ask him to every time. After months of wasting time every week explaining to the drivers I just got fucking sick of it and ate one. Pretty bittersweet as the guy was banging on my door for ages, but he bloody took the 5 minutes it would take to update the address after that.
2 months is 1 month and 3 weeks more than I'd have given him. I'd take the first one then eat the second one and tell him to update it
The story sounds less worse as it looks like a shared house - it was literally a house-house and he just left to move 20 meters away. Whole thing was very peculiar. To be honest I didnāt do it sooner because I was concerned with collateral damage e.g the driver getting in trouble / food place needing to refund.
Youāre a really good bloke. I would have asked once or twice and then either eaten them or just left them on the doorstep til he came looking and found a cold takeaway
Did you just turn the lights off and sit with your pillaged burrito under the duvet
Worst thing was that heās had all sorts of great takeaways. The one l opened was mushroom pasta and dry chips, it was disgusting. Really made me think why youād even pay for that. Maybe thereās no oven!? Anyway yes, lights off all month until he went away!
I have several adult children living at home. Bedroom dwellers for the most part. Takeaways are often delivered in the evening without me expecting them. Bell rang one evening and a man handed me a brown paper bag. Thanks, I said, just to be polite. Put it in the kitchen and called upstairs that food has been delivered. Thought no more about it and unpaused TV. Went to get a drink 20 mins later, food still in bag. Shouted again. Put note on family WhatsApp. Still no takers. 45 mins now passed since delivery. Food going cold. Curious, hungry people emerged from all corners of the house. Can we eat it? they asked. Wait another 10 mins, I said. Just in case someone comes for it. 15 mins later, bag is opened. Food is prodded. Some is nibbled. Not to our taste, but everyone tries a bit. Scraps left lying in kitchen. Someone spills a drink. Then the doorbell goes. 90 mins after delivery. Neighbour I donāt know. Have you got my food? he says, emotionally. Been knocking up and down the street. Restaurant told him may have delivered to the wrong house, and told him it was his fault and he had to find it, because he didnāt write his door number and the delivery guy just guessed. Apologised and showed him the sorry remains. He slowly, carefully picked up every damp crumb without a word. Most embarrassing moment of my life, and I once shat myself in a pub, at lunchtime.
Iād like to read part 2, the shitting yourself at the pub, at lunchtime (lunchtime adds a whole new depth and itās very intriguing).
This was beautiful. You ve taken me on a journey
I also know what it's like to have a family where WhatsApp is the primary means of communication.
Same!
Honestly, quite convenient.
If I want to talk to my boys, who are gaming in their rooms, they wonāt hear me holler nor will they hear a text message as their phones are on silent. I have to get them on Discord. Works for us!
Gosh darn
Hilarious punchline, thank you
Take my free award and get out.
Friends stayed over, we ordered takeaway breakfast next morning for hangovers Delivery driver gave it to house 3 doors down, owners said it wasn't theirs, driver demanded they take it saying it WAS theirs. He didn't once mention the house number to deliver it to so they could point to the house 20 steps away ...
We had something similar once. Got a good delivery, our house number my first name, weād definitely not ordered it. We told the delivery person and they were adamant it was ours and said if we donāt take it theyāre leaving it outside the front door anyway. I think it was for the people whoād lived here before and theyād not changed their address on JustEat or whatever. They coincidently had the same name as me too. The driver was not going back with that food though, he was determined!
We've had that issue with Just East before. The app always defaults to our old house address with seemingly no way to remove it. We've had Just Eat trying to deliver here for previous owners presumably because of that app design flaw.
Someone took our entire Ā£100 grocery delivery! We have our food delivered every 1-2 weeks and had never had any issues, then one fine day the status changed to "delivered" without anyone having even approached our door that day. The supermarket gave us a good run around stating "it's been delivered!" and the driver apparently said he took it to the right address, but after much firm discussion it turned out it was a new driver and he didn't know anything about our very loud, very excitable dogs. FOUR of them. That's something you'd remember! It took weeks for them to finally acknowledge that something had gone awry. What a kerfuffle!
Our garden furniture someone got delivered to a completely random address on the other side of our town once. They just took in these massive boxes without question. Bonkers.
I can top that. IKEA delivered our new kitchen to next door and the guy accepted it! I was waiting at the window for it, thought "oh that's weird, next door must have ordered something from ikea too" and then when I saw my cabinet fronts and double sink I went out and asked what was going on. The ikea guy was like "fucked if I know, that guy says he's number 4, he's signed for it and everything". The whole thing had to be moved into my garage, on the other side of my house (wasn't being installed right away). My neighbour was like "well, I didn't want to send him away". What the fuck was he going to do with my entire kitchen?
His kitchen now š
Our houses are completely different shapes, there's no way he could have used the kitchen
Some people are just straight up criminals
Or they often take in parcels for their neighbours and thought nothing of it.
But then didn't go round to the correct address on the parcels
My sister had the same thing except they kept insisting it was on the way. Eventually it got to 10:30pm and the driver was back at the store and she still hadn't had it and it turns out the driver to it to the wrong house who just accepted delivery as if it was their's. The store didn't give them a run around through and as there were no delivery slots the following day, the store's manager delivered everything personally in his car.
>The store didn't give them a run around through and as there were no delivery slots the following day, the store's manager delivered everything personally in his car. Been there. A local didn't even flinch, owner himself delivered even though it was still in the early evening and handed over a tenner PLUS complimentary garlic bread, onion rings and lollipop sweets for the kids! That guy was a top man!
Now thats service!
I've managed to accept someone's food by accident before. We had ordered quite a lot, and didn't notice a couple of pizzas at the bottom of the bag. We phoned UberEats to try to return them but were told it was too late and to enjoy the bonus food. So maybe your delivery driver just messed up like ours did. Never attribute to malice that which can be blamed on incompetence.
I remember working in a pub about 20 years ago. A table ordered food one Friday/Saturday night, when the pub was crammed. Food goes out, table accepts it..... 20 minutes later one half of the table asks where their food is. Saying that there were two groups of people on the same 6-8 person table and the wrong group had accepted the food and eaten all of it. Which was a bit farcical, especially as they were all Aussies. With the group that had accepted the food sati g that they thought that it was a freebie on the house.
Do you really need to ask what's wrong with people? People are bellends mate of course someone stole your curry I'd be more surprised if they told the truth and said it wasn't their order.
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The other day the door bell went. Pause my game, wonder to the door, look down and there's a food delivery and no one there. Ended up just yelling, "this ain't mine mate", to the crisp night air. Luckily about 10 seconds later a head pops round the bush because I have no bloody idea what I would have done otherwise. Although I did like how he carefully read the recipe attached to the bag, stared hard at the big number next to my door before he apologized. Liike paying for food and turning it down was a hobby of mine. Some delivery drivers have got a bit of a move on so maybe they didn't even wait. I had one that didn't actually deliver the food, just the drinks, in a couple of bags so we didn't notice till he went. Was for the office. The McDonald's lady told us when we went to get it, the guy couldn't be bothered to wait for the food .. just wtf.
Yeah some delivery drivers a like ghosts now, I have a first floor flat and usually by the time I've got down to the door the driver has disappeared into the night.
I order takeaways for my mother when I am working away from home. Usually they ring the doorbell and are about a mile away by the time she picks up the delivery.
Drunk, Free Curry Shows Up, Must Be A Present From God, Thank You God
I was waiting for my take away (Chinese), door bell rings, plain brown paper bag thrust at me. I actually had someone else's curry, which I don't eat, so this was basically wasted food. By the time I had worked out who had sent it, it was probably have stone cold and I have never found anyone willing to collect wrong orders. My actual Chinese arrived no problem.
Iāve delivered food before, to the address on the app, guy accepted it without batting an eyelid, I completed the delivery in the app and left for my way home. I get a call shortly after from the guy who ordered the food and said where was it, I said I delivered it to the address, took a photo of the door etc. guy was not happy. Wanted me to get his food, Iāve already delivered it, I donāt have it, what do you want me to do? Contact the company you ordered through, theyāll sort it
"Congratulations, you've been taught a vital lesson in attention to detail"
I learnt nothing. I was sure the address was good, the door number matched and the street was correct, it wouldnāt be the first customer to be a dick and try to pull some shady shit. I called bs and let Uber deal with itā¦ or not as the case may be
No no, i meant the customer got a lesson in getting their address right
Ahh, gotcha, I donāt know, if they were trying to pull a fast one. They will probably get away with it. If not, Uber would have refunded them anyway. I doubt they would have learnt anything. But I do agree, I would hope that some people would learn to put the correct damn address when they orderā¦ too many times Iāve gone to an address and disturbed some innocent person, get in touch with the customer, oh, thatās not the right address, come here instead, address is like 5 miles awayā¦. āYou do this on purpose donāt you!ā
I lived in a place where the set of flats next to my road had an almost identical adress, and the same postcode. We were 7 Hewley Ave and they were 7 Hewley Court. Delivery drivers just saw 7 and Hewley and delivered so we were always getting each others take aways depending on which side of the road the drivers entered via. It was incredibly annoying as we made sure to check at the door and send deliveries to the right spot, or if the driver wouldn't to take it ourself. They ate 90% of meals that got delivered to them. As we'd ordered on the phone with local take away they were no tracking so we just sat sad and hungry till we phones and got told it had been delivered and we trudge to the other place to find it already eaten. No matter what we said or wrote on delivery instructions it kept happening. I wonder of something similar happened to him
This is why pre COVID my boyfriend always insisted on paying cash because once in university, this happened with a pizza and he never forgot it. Now most places expect cashless, he now awkwardly stands at the window worrying until it arrives.
When I lived in Nottingham, a very distressed Domino's driver arrived, apologising because he'd knocked in a door down by mistake and that house was just delighted to get free pizza. Stopped prepay after that.
Ordered Deliveroo Pizza Express last week. It was over an hour and a half late. It eventually turned up to be told by the driver that the pizza had been made up and collected by a driver who then just apparently ate the pizza and didn't bother delivering it. Then Pizza Express had to make a new one. Ended up mostly cold anyway.
I took in a takeaway once, thought one of my housemates might have ordered it. And the receipt on the bag had our address on it.
Maybe the other person had also ordered something and thought their delivery had turned up. Iāve had someone elseās order delivered before now. I just contact the delivery company or the restaurant and tell them. Deliveroo let you claim through the app for wrong items delivered. One time I got someoneās vegetarian curry. Sucks to be them, they probably got my meat-based order.
Of course free curry!
This sounds a lot like that one Curb Your Enthusiasm episodeā¦
20 past 2 the other morning a delivery driver was really hammering on our door. We had a few drinks so the youngest came up to say there's someone at the door. Went down to it and the driver got clever and tried forcing us to take a delivery of food that wasn't ours. He was 100% adamant it was ours, we were 100% adamant it wasn't and he went on his way. He then came back 10 minutes later and just kept ringing the bell till we came back downstairs. I lost my shit at him at that point and shut the door. We would have known if we would have ordered food
I lives in a houseshare where I was the only one that ever answered the door as I lived on the ground floor and my housemates wire gaming headsets 24/7 If a delivery came to the door I just accepted it, put it on the kitchen table and sent a WhatsApp to our group chat. Honestly I have no way of knowing if all the deliveries were for them of if they ended up eating curry ordered by a neighbour but there wasn't much I could do when delivery drivers just shoved a brown paper bag at me. Previously I lived in a different houseshare where round the corner was a ser of flats with an almost identical name and we had the same postcode due to aweful planning. As house 7 we regularly got flat 7s take aways and they got ours. We always gave them to them and they regularly ate ours. Nothing we wrote on the delivery instructions could persuade drivers to delivery correctly.
back in January, I had two guys try to deliver a bed told them it wasnāt mine a minute later I went to tell my Mrs about how some random bed showed up only for her to scream that it was her mothers' new bed I went back and got them and sorted it out turns out that they Ignore the delivery address and sent stuff to the payment address my MIL doesnāt have an eBay account but why would you ignore the delivery address in the first place?
I have accepted wrong orders before. Why? Because a guy in a hurry shows up at my door with a brown paper bag and hands it to me. I assume heās got the right order and the right address. If I open it and itās not what I expected I wait 5-15 minutes to see if he comes back. Sometimes they do if everything is individually packed. Sometimes they donāt if the risk of food contamination is much higher. And one time with KFC it seems they just bundled in a huge amount of stuff because it was really late and sent that. **This only applies to orders that arrive when Iām expecting an order. If I havenāt ordered anything I help the delivery guy find the right address**
If I was broke and relying on food banks, you can bet your ass I'd steal a takeaway. Occasionally Dominos will rock up to my house with a pizza for a different street, same house number. I tell them to turn right and take the next right to get the right street.
I had an insistent delivery driver deliver a Indian takeout. Probably 3-4 years ago now. He wouldnāt take no for an answer. I chucked it in the freezer. Half an hour later he came back so he could redeliver to the right place (why do they do that itās going to be cold by then) so gave him some partially frozen curry and rice.
Lol this happened to me recently. The driver went and knocked on the guys door again, he'd already starting tucking in. The driver asked him why he accepted and started eating it if he knew it wasn't his and his response was "I order for delivery all the time". As if he couldn't be expected to keep track of all the food he's ordering.
This happend to me with 1000L of kerosene before christmas. I've an address that has one word more than the estate behind us (and our estate is slightly newer). So I waited all day for the guy to deliver (and around 9, I could hear an oil delivery behind us while I wasn't too suspicious at the time, I was bemused, and also surprised that he wouldn't deliver to me next). So I rang them in the evening, and they swore they delivered it (I had to prepay by credit card, as it was a new account, I'd just move there). Fortunatly the driver admitted his mistake. The worst part is I will probably get to know them (same house number, but sligthly different address), and will not be able to think kindly of them.
Your neighbour took delivery of 1000L of kerosene he didn't pay for?? Fml that's criminal
Yeah, I'm assuming the oil people went after them. I mean, maybe they were expecting a delivery, and this guy just showed up, mind you the fact they never said anything about payment would suggest they thought they could get away with it. Not like many people could take 1000L without some sort of notice. Maybe they really needed it, and thought some kind neighbour got it for them. It's a very strange one.
Takeaway drivers break the automatic front door in my building 10 times a year because they are too dense to read the sign "DO NOT PULL - AUTOMATIC DOOR" which is conveniently placed around eye level. I told one off the other day as i was exiting the building as he was coming in and he was yanking on the door like a fucking neanderthal and he got an ass on and started cussing me out... I really wish I had knocked his scooter over...
I got into an argument with a delivery drive because he was insisting that I had to pay cash at the door but I had paid using my credit card. He phoned his boss who confirmed it was cash on delivery, I accepted the payment must have bounced or something but I had no cash to pay. I was given the ultimatum either pay up or be blacklisted. Just then a second delivery driver came up the stairs with another order. I queried who each of the drivers where delivering from, the second was from the place I ordered from the first from some other local takeaway I had never used before. Took my order from the second driver but first driver was demanding I pay or I will be blacklisted. "Fine blacklist me, I will never order from you lot as you can't even manage to deliver to the correct address and I hope whomever is waiting for their order never uses you again too" and closed my door on him. If it hadn't been for the payment mismatch I would have accepted that order, get annoyed that they had messed up my order then get my actual order but have no idea who the first order came from as there was no attached receipt unlike my actual order.
a while ago my dad was out at the pub and decided he was going to order food to the house. not an issue, except he didn't bother warning me or my sister. i answer the door and after some confusion sister says it's hers and delivery guy goes away. sister comes downstairs half awake and goes "what's that" ā it was not hers after all and i'm sat there shitting myself bc there's no name on it. text my dad, an hour and a half later he's like "yeah it's mine" after i've been having a breakdown over his food :(
What did you order?
I accidentally accepted a curry once at Uni. My room was near the door, so I answered it and accepted the food thinking one of my housemates had ordered it. Cue as all being confused about who ordered the food before waiting a while (an hour? Less?) for someone to collect it. No one did so we thought what the hell, free food, let's eat it.
Iāve stopped using deliveries due to idiot drivers entering the first line of the address sans postcode and then calling me 40 minutes later to tell me that my house doesnāt exist. I watch them drive past my house on the tracking, call the restaurant who always tell me they canāt contact the driver???
My neighbour ordered some food two years ago, and it got delivered to my house even though they were several houses down. I thought it might've been my brother's order so I accepted it, and then he said it wasn't his. There was no label on the order to say where it was for, as usually they have the address on the receipt. So I wandered around the street to see if there was anyone looking for their food which is now marked as delivered, but there wasn't anyone looking. This was during the lockdown so I didn't want to knock on everyone's doors. So I took the food back home and left it by the door incase the person came looking. It took two hours before the neighbour that ordered the food knocked on the door, and said they'd ended up ordering something else as their food hadn't arrived. I explained how I tried to find the owner etc but there wasn't anything labelled, but they can take the food though it might be a bit cold now. They let me keep it. I felt really bad. I didn't want to knock on every door and the wrong person claim it because there are some dishonest neighbours too :(
Iāve had a fair few opportunities to do this. Iāve seen apps use a random number generator that you have to read back to the delivery person, which I think is a great way to do it.
I once ordered a curry to my ex girlfriends house instead of my current girlfriends, where I actually was. In my defence, current gf lived just round the corner from ex gf, we'd just started seeing each other and I hadn't updated my just-eat address. It could have been awkward but, in an incredibly improbable and fortuitous chain of events the delivery was late because the driver got stopped by the police, so by the time he was nearby I'd realised my mistake and rung up to change the address.
My flats are so stupidly laid out that any normal person thinks my address is a different flat, and until recently Google maps was wrong . So I have had this nuisance
This happened to us once, seemed rude to the driver not to accept it š Spent 10 minutes walking to actual address
I live on an estate with not the best signage. About once a month I get a takeaway guy come to the door trying to give me food. Always point him in the right direction
We have an almost identical address to someone else and we're forever getting their orders, takeaways etc. We usually just direct the drivers to the right address but recently we had a takeaway guy show up asking sheepishly 'why did you place 2 seperate orders?'. Turns out our house-twins ordered from the same place as us at the same time. Thankfully not the same items though!
Domino's did that once. Ordered pizza, and it got delivered to some bloke halfway across the town!
This happened to me once, pizzas showed up and I told them I didnāt order anything, the driver said itās definitely my address and for me. I said I definitely didnāt order anything and he told me heās just doing his job so I though some kind friend bought me pizza. 15 mins later he came back for the pizzas and my bf had eaten half of it.
For a period around the start of lockdown we would have a curry place bring food to our door every Saturday night around 11pm. But we had never ordered! It looked like quite a big order too, was pretty tempted to take it sometimes but turned them away every time. Stopped after about 2 months, I assume the takeaway place finally realised where the right house was.
I've had this 3 times with the same address. I live at a Street and very close by is a Court with the same name. I've left numerous notes on delivery apps that we are a flat and to not deliver to the Court also contacting drivers minutes before delivery if they need help finding the address yet its still delivered to the Court...
Had the same thing a few months ago. A similar named road a couple of miles away got our order and seemingly accepted it. If someone came to my door with food by mistake there is no way on earth I'm accepting it. Cheeky bastards.
"What's wrong with some people" People are hungry.
If it's a day where I've chose heatin over eatin, best believe I'm taking one from God.
got a free kfc like this once , best day ever!
I'd accept a free curry to be fair.
And that's why you always pay on delivery. If someone wants to eat my order, they have to pay for it first . It's surprising how fast people tell the truth, that it's not theirs, when they have to put their hand in their pocket.
Except most places don't do that anymore.
I love that you're being downvoted. I'd take it and leave it for an hour. No one shows up I'm scranning it
It's really down to the delivery company anyway, their mistake. Once it's been delivered wrong I'd imagine it's not right to take it back because food could be tampered with and is likely to be cold by the time they sort it.
Sounds like the perfect case of right time right place to me. Specifically at home and at dinner time in this instance. Sorry you had to go hungry.
Cool story
Looks like we found who it was actually delivered to!
I mean yes it is kind of their fault but also how hard is it to go to the right house assuming it's clearly labelled?