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Cheeky tourist used my address for their takeaway!!

360 replies

WellLarDeDar · 04/04/2021 18:06

I live near a park, so we get a lot of tourists in the area.

Today, some girl visiting the park ordered herself an uber eats delivery to specifically my exact address so I had a driver knocking on my door. I thought he must be in the wrong place so asked to look at the address so I could direct him, as that sometimes happens, but it was my full address on there! It's quite an obscure address as well as it has a different postcode to the rest of the street and the house has a name instead of a number, which we don't display so you would need to look it up to get the whole thing. There was even a description in the delivery instructions.

She wasn't close by to receive the delivery either and the poor driver was really confused and awkward and was trying to call her and she didnt pick up her phone, and he was stuck waiting there for quite a while going are you sure it's not yours, you dont know anyone called name that could have sent it, it's been paid for so I have to deliver it, the person who ordered it needs to be at the address it's ordered to. I felt so bad for him.

AIBU to think that is blo*dy rude?! I might not have minded if she had asked first or had been around to receive it but to me I just think its really inconsiderate. When she finally turned up I asked her if she didnt think it was a bit inappropriate and rude and told her not to ever do it again and she just acted like I had been super offensive and sarcastically told me to have a nice day.

Some tourists can be so lovely and others are just so self absorbed.

OP posts:

GoingBacktoSchool123 · 04/04/2021 22:53

It’s a dick thing to do. I live next to a park and every person who does it thinks they are the only one ever to do it and it’s no big deal, I sometimes get calls multiple times a day. Now I try to dump in the wheelie big before anyone can claim it.

GoingBacktoSchool123 · 04/04/2021 22:56

The drivers ring the bell, try to to hand over the delivery, they you have to deal with the person who wants to collect.

FUCK OFF OFF MY PROPERTY TOSSERS!!!

sbhydrogen · 04/04/2021 22:59

There's an easy way to solve this problem: If you're gonna order food to a seemingly random address, be there when the rider turns up.

I'm fairly sure either Deliveroo or UberEats advertised that they delivered to parks a few years ago. Hence the whole "deliver to my current location" thing.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 04/04/2021 23:00

Because as others have demonstrated, the person in the house ends up being disturbed in plenty of cases.

Even if it’s “oh I’m just checking it’s not for you before I hand over to this random on the street”.

They might get called to the door multiple times on a nice day.

Also it’s just weird to use someone else’s address because it’s not your address!

IrmaFayLear · 04/04/2021 23:01

Can you imagine the amount of litter in parks takeaway deliveries must cause?

People are slobs.

PinkTonic · 04/04/2021 23:05

@sbhydrogen

There's an easy way to solve this problem: If you're gonna order food to a seemingly random address, be there when the rider turns up.

I'm fairly sure either Deliveroo or UberEats advertised that they delivered to parks a few years ago. Hence the whole "deliver to my current location" thing.

I'm fairly sure either Deliveroo or UberEats advertised that they delivered to parks a few years ago. Hence the whole "deliver to my current location" thing

Well if it’s that simple just say my current location is the park gates, or the junction between X and Y roads or wait outside a commercial premises. No need to give a residential address and risk disturbing the householder.

JustLyra · 04/04/2021 23:11

@IrmaFayLear

Can you imagine the amount of litter in parks takeaway deliveries must cause?

People are slobs.

No more or less than everyone taking picnics.

Litter louts are litter louts. It’s not unique to takeaway consumers

LabbyNoona · 04/04/2021 23:31

Yeah to be fair the last litter louts in park I saw were a group of middle aged woman with about ten bottles of wine and leftover paper plates! Unbelievable

MaLarkinn · 04/04/2021 23:36

I'm howling at some of these responses 🤣

UniversalAunt · 04/04/2021 23:56

If I order something click & collect, it is all down to me to collect it within the dates given. Beyond that date it is returned to base for refund.

If I place an online order with supermarket, it is up to me to be in to accept the order.

So it seems reasonable to me for the person who orders takeaway at an another person’s address, entirely for their own use & convenience, has to be there on the pavement outside that address to receive the order. None of this moseying up at their whim.

If I found takeaway on my doorstep that I had not ordered, it goes straight in the bin. Food left out on pavements attracts rats & other vermin.

Tough if that’s your takeaway order, you should have been here to receive it.

UniversalAunt · 04/04/2021 23:58

‘My dd and her friend did this, but in a residential area.
They did receive the takeaway and eat it though.
I told her how rude it was but nowhere was open, only deliveries and they were hungry.’

So pack some crisps & pieces of fruit before you go.

Blueeyedgirl21 · 05/04/2021 00:02

@UniversalAunt they’re probably teen girls not middle aged women with a crushed pack of aldi crisps and a bruised banana in their handbags for when they’re hungry. It’s like the ‘we have choc ices at home’ my Nan used to always say to me when the ice cream van turned up... ITS NOT THE SAME I DON’T WANT YOUR ICELAND CHOC ICE I WANT A 99

Blueeyedgirl21 · 05/04/2021 00:05

In fact I’m eating takeaway right now.. I bet there will be a post soon from one of the boring nuggets down my road saying a car is outside their house at 11.55pm and their considering logging it with 101

LabbyNoona · 05/04/2021 00:09

@Blueeyedgirl21

Bet that takeaway is laced with coke

Onjnmoeiejducwoapy · 05/04/2021 00:14

[quote Blueeyedgirl21]@UniversalAunt they’re probably teen girls not middle aged women with a crushed pack of aldi crisps and a bruised banana in their handbags for when they’re hungry. It’s like the ‘we have choc ices at home’ my Nan used to always say to me when the ice cream van turned up... ITS NOT THE SAME I DON’T WANT YOUR ICELAND CHOC ICE I WANT A 99[/quote]
This is such a perfect illustration of the divide on this thread 😂

MaLarkinn · 05/04/2021 00:14

@LabbyNoona 🤣🤣

HeyBigBrenda · 05/04/2021 00:22

Changingwiththetimes · 05/04/2021 00:27

I would just tell the driver that I did not order it and shut the door. Not my name, not my problem.
Actually I would probably assume my son ordered it and taken it in and he would have eaten it thinking I had ordered it!

therocinante · 05/04/2021 00:34

Every time I come back to this thread it gets better hahaha.

Note to self: pack a banana and some crisps in my bag in case I get the urge to accidentally start drug dealing out of some random person's address.

PurpleCrocuses · 05/04/2021 00:36

Am beginning to suspect "greasy pizza" is code for something -- meth? Ket? Bath salts?

Note to self: order a greasy pizza asap.

therocinante · 05/04/2021 00:39

@Blueeyedgirl21

You joke but this actually happened on my street! The street curtain twitcher Whatsapp group leader was absolutely aghast at a car turning up at 1am and then leaving and had a breakdown about whether or not we should tell the police there was 'suspicious activity'. Then someone sheepishly had to admit to ordering a drunk takeaway with their husband from the friend chicken place round the corner, and was told - genuinely - "Ah no worries. Maybe we should let each other know in future if we're going to do things like this to stop us worrying seeing as there've been car thefts round here recently".

As though car thieves show up with a insulated bag full of fried chicken as a disguise in case Nosy Rebeccca at no 28 is at the curtains at the faintest sound of activity at 1am... mad bastards.

SionnachGlic · 05/04/2021 00:49

So rude. I would have taken it in & said sorry...delivered to my address which I did not give permission to use. Mind you...these CF types could get nasty if their sense of entitlement is disrupted... I'd feel better reacting negatively if I had security camera/recording in case they did something worse like keyed my car for example.

Blueeyedgirl21 · 05/04/2021 00:59

@therocinante Jesus Christ “let each other know”??! imagine ‘just to let you all know, I’ve ordered a dominos, so when the car turns up and a guy in a dominos hat carrying a pizza gets out, don’t worry he doesn’t want to steal your 2010 Honda Jazz, Alison.’

Dasher789 · 05/04/2021 01:00

What a CF. You should have eaten it. It was addressed to your home, not your front gate.

CKL987 · 05/04/2021 01:02

I don't see any reason why someone shouldn't do this if they are actually standing outside to collect it. Weird to not be there though.

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