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Someone has stolen my takeaway

201 replies

PurpleSproutingSomething · 09/11/2019 21:26

[light hearted ish]

Ordered on one of the big delivery groups for some food to be delivered, unfortunately the driver delivered to the wrong house, where the woman has happily accepted her free order of food!

WIBU to search the bins of every house on the street where the driver was last seen?

Have ordered pizza now, but didn't want pizza and we're £50+ down until a refund is issued. HANGRY!

OP posts:
Mrseds · 12/11/2019 09:01

My husband works for a big pizza company delivering and he did this the other week, miss took the number from a previous delivery with the one he was doing, and they accepted it!! Luckily when he realised the company made a fresh order and was delivered to the correct people. In his defence it was an extremely busy night

Watisiitallaboot · 12/11/2019 09:04

I would collect my own food but I'm not allowed to drive due to the side effects of my meds. So I either go hungry (difficult to stand in kitchen and cook due to pain) or order from "restaurants" that deliver.

QueSera · 12/11/2019 09:57

This has happened to me twice in pubs.
The last time it happened, it was my young DC's meal that (unbeknownst to us at that time) went to the wrong table, who happily accepted their free food (they ended up having to pay for it, when the server realised what happened). Our meals arrived to the right table, but we couldn't eat without her, and by the time we realised her food wasn't coming, and the pub went to re-do her order, our food was cold, and she got in a hangry foul mood, had a hunger melt-down and we all had to leave without anyone having eaten a thing. My mother was visiting from overseas and this was the last night/meal of her visit, so it wasn't just a normal meal that was ruined.
Thank you very fcking much, greedy fckers who stole our DC's food!!!!

TheHumansAreDefinitelyDead · 12/11/2019 10:33

QueSera, that us awful

But why not all Hove DC some of your own food? That's what I would have done when I knew the meal would gave to be cooked again, and would not get there in time

Instead of everyone letting their food go cold and nobody eating (everyone loses in this scenario Confused), that is just weird

TheHumansAreDefinitelyDead · 12/11/2019 10:34

Give, not Hove

Lulualla · 12/11/2019 10:39

Yeah... all sitting around waiting for someone else's food to arrive isn't normal. Well, proper etiquette is that if the food is served hot then you dont wait; you just eat as it arrived. If the food is served cold, then you wait.

You all should have eaten and give her little bits of whatever she could eat from your plates.

bluetue · 12/11/2019 10:40

Someone posted on here a while ago that the delivery driver took ages to turn up, the app showed them going to some strange places. It turned out they were attacked by a dog and had to go to A&E

Lulualla · 12/11/2019 10:42

@Watisiitallaboot

I'm trying to figure out why you've put restaurants into quotations. Are you implying that if they deliver then they aren't real restaurants? Because that's sort of silly.

GrizzlebumsMum · 12/11/2019 10:52

@Lulualla

Some of them aren’t even restaurants but ‘dark kitchens’.

www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-dark-kitchens-pop-up-feeding-the-city-london

QueSera · 12/11/2019 10:55

We did offer DC some of our meals, but she didn't like what we were having...

Lulualla · 12/11/2019 10:58

@GrizzlebumsMum

Ah, see I assume that most people only order from places they've actually eaten in before or can drive past during the day. But I live rurally so choice is limited to the actual restaurants and pubs we have in the area who do delivery.

Watisiitallaboot · 12/11/2019 11:56

LoL! Aww, bless ya for noticing that. No, I don't class McDonalds as restaurant quality food, but my point was in response to why people just didn't collect the food themselves. Thanks for picking me up on that. 🤣

Coconutbug · 12/11/2019 12:03

I've read this whole thread and now I really just want a takeaway!!!!

The main reason I order is because I can't be bothered to change out of my normal homewear attire (PJs and no bra) and normally have sleeping children so can't leave anyway.
Or like the other night I'd put on the slow cooker ready to have a meal when DH got home and turns out id read the instructions wrong (sleep deprived from newborn) neither of us could be bothered to go out so we ordered takeaway. Directly from the takeaways website however they are on justeat and ubereats also.

I think alot of the time the delivery drivers try to force deliveries on you because they get paid per drop especially the likes of ubereats. So won't get paid unless it goes.

QueSera · 12/11/2019 13:57

all sitting around waiting for someone else's food to arrive isn't normal

To my knowledge it is normal table manners to wait:
"Generally do not start before everyone has been served"
www.debretts.com/expertise/etiquette/table-manners/table-rules/

Antigon · 12/11/2019 14:20

Yeah... all sitting around waiting for someone else's food to arrive isn't normal. Well, proper etiquette is that if the food is served hot then you dont wait; you just eat as it arrived. If the food is served cold, then you wait.

I think proper etiquette is waiting for everyone to be served their meal, hot or cold. Unless there's a problem with one person's order, in which case said person urges everyone else to start.

You all should have eaten and give her little bits of whatever she could eat from your plates.

I agree however that you don't wait for a child (!) and that you give them some bread or something and tell everyone else to start.

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 12/11/2019 14:26

Why are you feeding your kids the dead corpses of tortured animals

Anyone heard of a live corpse?

Antigon · 12/11/2019 14:33

Frankenstein?

Clevs · 12/11/2019 15:01

I had part of someone else's Tesco delivery earlier this year. I ordered the shopping but wasn't in when it got delivered so my husband put it all away. The next day when I went in the fridge there were items in there that I'd not ordered. My husband had no idea I'd not ordered them but they were nice things luckily!

Gingaaarghpussy · 12/11/2019 15:21

The only problem I've had is sainsbury's deliveries that aren't mine. I re directed them down the road where there are flats. I had to ask a friend to have a word with the lady in question because i didn't want her to lose her shopping if i was out.
She was an older lady, who had just moved into her flat and even though our postcodes are different it never occurred to her to put the name of the flats in as well.
She was ever so apologetic when she knocked on my door, i explained that i didn't really mind, but i didn't want her to lose out if i wasnt home. Hasn't happened since.

thecalmorchid · 13/11/2019 02:41

Years ago I'd ordered a curry for 6 adults so it was a sizeable order.

We'd moved into an old farm house and I clearly gave the address and postcode. Was told it was a 30 min wait, all fine. 60 mins later I called the take away they said it was being delivered.

90 mins later I get a call from an irate delivery driver who was saying he was ringing the bell really loudly and could I come to the door. I was at the door!

It transpired he had not understood which village we were in and been driving around for an hour trying to deliver.
He was at a similarly named farm house about 5 miles away.

The thing was, he really wasn't having any of it as HE was ringing the door bell.

I pointed out I was stood in the open doorway and we didn't have a bell and no, I still couldn't see him!

We didn't get the take away that night. I still don't know what happened to it.

Future orders were hand delivered by the owner who thankfully knew where we lived.

Fruitbatdancer · 13/11/2019 03:03

I live in the arse end of nowhere. We only have 1 place that delivers on just eat. They have twice tried to deliver other people’s food to us (once ringing doorbell at bloody 1am!!! I was too embrassed to tell them off as obvs they see our random postcode and just assume it’s us #donerkebabislife

Honeybee85 · 13/11/2019 03:26

@Hoppinggreen

😱 they wanted it back? To do what with it, deliver it to the person who had actually ordered it?
That would be a really bad scenario, apart from the food being cold, they don’t know what happened to it in the meantime.

LemonPrism · 13/11/2019 03:30

Just tell them and you'll get your money back. I live in flats and they do this often

Sahej · 13/11/2019 15:55

@PurpleSproutingSomething I would definitely check who had taken it and then get a bottle of sauce and squirt it at them and say that's to go with my good 🤣

ClapHandsAndSaveTheFairies · 13/11/2019 16:00

My friend ordered his usual on justeat, ranted on fb that it hadn't turned up. His friends where he usually ordered the meal posted back that they had received a random free takeaway, but hadn't put two and two together.