Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To not understand what was going on

86 replies

dealer · 10/05/2011 20:24

I'm a delivery driver. Today I stopped in a road which had several deliveries. Another van was already there, it was sign-written as from the business in the next village which I know supplies peppers to major supermarkets.

I saw a man get out of the van with some 3-packs of peppers and started to knock on doors. When people answered he handed them a pack of peppers. If no-one answered he tucked the pack behind a plant pot or wherever, as if he were delivering phone books. No-one that answered the door looked surprised, just opened the door and took the peppers. Annoyingly, no-one I was delivering to was in so I couldn't ask them. When I ended up at the same door as this man I attempted to chat, but it became apparent he had a speech problem and I couldn't understand him. He seemed friendly, and smiled and waved as he moved down the street.

So, have I missed some pepper distribution scheme? It all just seemed most odd to me

OP posts:
shandyleer · 10/05/2011 23:11

Somebody hung a huge marrow on my front door handle once (in a carrier bag obviously). Never had any peppers though.

MirandaGoshawk · 10/05/2011 23:14

I think that someone has hit the nail on the head - he is a drug dealer and the stuff is hidden in the peppers, hence no conversation/questions from the recipients. Obvious, isn't it? Probably has a regular weekly order.

JeremyKylesPetProject · 10/05/2011 23:21

Every now and then the milkman leaves 2 bottles of milk on our doorstep (maybe once or twice a year) he has never asked for any money and always takes the used bottles back the day after. I left a note saying thanks and to knock on for the money as we love bottled milk but he never does. I just take it as a quirky, kind gesture.

QueenLaQueefer · 10/05/2011 23:23

Is it international pepper day?

Like steak & bj day for vegans.

FWIW, the Wicker Man re-make is pants. Love the original.

Missbakewell · 10/05/2011 23:30

I was once posted a battered sausage through my letterbox, and when i opened the front door found the chips in a trail down the garden path and out into the street to my car where the chip shop wrappers were under my windscreen wiper, which my "admirer" had written his mobile number on. Needless to say i didn't call as I didn't really much care for his battered sausage lying limp and congealed on my hallway floor...

bronze · 10/05/2011 23:37

I need to know...

Jenstar21 · 10/05/2011 23:55

Missbakewell - I'd have had to call him, just to see who would have tried to woo me with a sausage supper. He had to be from Glasgow, no?! :)

Missbakewell · 11/05/2011 00:12

Ha Ha! He was indeed... Scotlands finest... had he left me a can of Irn Bru I may have relented!

emmanana · 11/05/2011 00:18

Marking my place - I'm intrigued!

GoodDaysBadDays · 11/05/2011 00:33

This thread is hilarious! I'm in bed next to my snoring Dh trying and failing to keep my hysterics under control.

Peppers, speech impediments, fishman, Mrs fish, courgettes, salami, marrows and battered sausages, phantom Milkmen...hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Oh thank you for this!

tigercametotea · 11/05/2011 00:42

Funniest thread of the day for me! :D

SacreLao · 11/05/2011 00:46

Lol, giggling away reading this!

Please update us as to what it was!

redundanttiara · 11/05/2011 01:05

Ha ha ha you have to get to the bottom this! A village sponsored drive to reduce health care costs/sack the local GP by upping residents' intake of f&v?

IhateMarlo · 11/05/2011 08:02
Grin
BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger · 12/05/2011 11:11

Nooooo! I have just started a thread to find out what happened and there is no update! Shock

FruStefanLindman · 12/05/2011 11:25

I've just had a thought about why the recipients didn't seem surprised to get the peppers. Maybe the pepper company had previously done a leaflet drop saying on it "we will be giving away a 3-pack of our finest peppers and our delivery driver will be in your area on XX to deliver your free peppers" Grin

kreecherlivesupstairs · 12/05/2011 12:02

Come back dealer. I need to know.

OTheHugeManatee · 12/05/2011 12:05
GandTiceandaslice · 12/05/2011 12:26

YABU.
Only because I don't understand.

redundanttiara · 12/05/2011 14:19
chrisonabike · 12/05/2011 14:25

Wasn't there a poster who got a right steam on about the ratio of green vs. red peppers in frozen packs? Maybe it was something to do with her meting out vengence and justice?

LineRunner · 12/05/2011 14:25

And Britt Ekland dances a bit naked in it.

Old joke:

They showed The Wicker Man on the Isle of Man* and thought it was a documentary.

*Replace with hicksville of choice.

Pennies · 12/05/2011 14:29

I have had rhubarb left on my doorstep randomly in the past. Very un-nerving.

bullet234 · 12/05/2011 14:33

The shops that normally take the deliveries of peppers phoned the delivery man up at short notice to tell him they didn't need as many. Or maybe they decided to get their peppers from another supplier.
The delivery man didn't want the peppers to go to waste. No time to organise another supplier. So he just gives them away.
People don't question it because it's free food. Perhaps he'd sent a flyer round a few days earlier explaining he'd be coming round.

dixiechick1975 · 12/05/2011 14:44

Can you ring the delivery company and ask??? (you recognised the van you say)

Swipe left for the next trending thread