If you cocked up the takeaway

[roarrfeckingroar]

If you / your partner accidentally just ordered agreed takeaway for one of you (say pizza via an app) and it was a genuine mistake, how would you / they react?

Snog?

Ah, I see the trade in hair-splitting is doing as well as ever! 😆

Pathetic, isnt it.

It depends whose meal got ordered! Mine - no problem. DH’s - I’m not sure but I’m horrible when I’m hangry！

Of course it's not normal OP, but you probably already know that.

If it was an accident, a 'normal' reaction would be to just share what arrives, assuming that everyone can eat all the food, uness all the pizza had meat on, and someone is vegetarian.

There's probably enough food anyway unless you're already sharing pizzas rather than having ordered one each. Or you can see if you've got some salad or something in the freezer to add to the meal, eg stick some chicken nuggets, chips, garlic bread etc in the air fryer/oven.

That's normal. Of course, if you have a history of being careless and making mistakes that mostly affect him, his reaction might be reasonable, but I suspect that's not the case here.

I’d be pretty upset if my order was missed. It would be extremely rare for me to be able to share someone else’s order because of allergies so it would mean I just have no food.

@BotterMon

Do people still pick up "takeaways"?

I call it takeaway even when I order online?

As we stand, we'd laugh and share it whilst ordering another (forgetter sucks up the delivery cost) or knocking something together if too late.

If it was meat pizza (I'm veggie), the place was now closed AND nothing decent in the fridge I would inwardly feel hard done by but wouldn't make a fuss as it would be an honest mistake. I'd order a deliciously trashy chip wrap from somewhere late opening 😏

If it was part of a pattern of thoughtlessness and no steps taken to rectify (not saying yours was) then yes, I would probably be more annoyed.

Who tf talks about a 'home delivery'? This place sometimes!!

Did you apologise, offer him the pizza that arrived and/or sort out the new order for his pizza (covering any additional delivery charge)? If you did, then a major stop about it is disproportionate, although mild irritation isn't unreasonable.

However, if you just said "Oh well, sucks to be you" and tucked in to your pizza, then he has a point, and you behaved very badly.

I must admit, I'd absolutely expect my DH to check that everything was in the basket before checking out, and to note the amount of payment being authorised. But then DH has a history of being careless, so he's used up all my goodwill on matters like this.

I don't think it's ever happened in our house but if it did they would know it was a genuine mistake and not malicious/careless.

We'd either share out what was there & bulk up with whatever is in the house or order more if it was quick to arrive

To be honest, it's not clear what you did to try and rectify it. If you just shrugged and ate yours then that's not really on.

If my food was missing, DH would probably offer to go out again and fetch it. I would doubtless protest that his would get cold. We would compromise by sharing his, then he would go out and get mine, and we would share that.

If his was missing, I would probably just offer to share mine rather than go and fetch more.

I would probably be more annoyed if it was DH mistake but affecting my food, than he would be with me, he is much more patient and understanding than I am. On the other hand, if it was my fault, I would be more obviously apologetic, whilst DH would be annoyed with himself if he’d messed up and therefore silent.

We don’t ever get a home delivery, we always walk and collect, but if we did have it delivered, we’d just quickly put through another order - possibly with extra dough balls or ice cream or something to make up for the original disappointment, it wouldn’t really be a big deal in that scenario.

I'd be pretty annoyed tbh, partly because DH is often pretty thoughtless when it comes to things like that (like the time we went out for pizza and I was late joining because of baby DS and when I arrived DH and his friend had ordered three pizzas - one spicy, one with meat and one vege one that I could eat and of course the vege one was mostly gone).

I don't really snack and I plan to have my meal at a set time so if I have to wait an extra 30 minutes I'm going to get hangry and would probably direct that at the person who was responsible. Like with the example above it was already late and to order another pizza would have taken a while and we have kids so can't sit around for ages so I just ate what was left so I wasn't super hungry and then had more food at home. I was annoyed though.