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Cheeky tourist used my address for their takeaway!!

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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:
Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 04/04/2021 19:34

I was sitting in a car by a beach in the UAE when I first moved there a long time ago, and was highly amused to see a delivery guy on a motor bike arrive with an order from Pizza Express, which he handed over to a couple of bikini-clad girls who had been waiting on the beach for it. They found each other using their mobile phones. Only in Dubai, as we always used to say.

Butwasitherdriveway · 04/04/2021 19:34

But I would show up. I'd be there Confused

tinkiiev · 04/04/2021 19:36

We've had this several times (live near a park); once we took it in and I planned to bin it (we'd eaten!) and instead someone came banging on our door and started swearing at us about "where's my takeaway?"

I was not pleased....

I actually wouldn't mind that much if at least people were polite and apologised for having missed the driver (assuming they try to keep an eye out) but it also woke my children up because of the banging on the door.

pam290358 · 04/04/2021 19:36

Next time, take it in, eat it and don’t open the door for the rest of the day. What a bloody cheek - different if she’d knocked and asked, or watched for the driver so he didn’t knock on the door. Don’t think the driver would have got into trouble as it was delivered to the right address, not his fault the CF wasn’t there to intercept it.

Plumbear2 · 04/04/2021 19:36

@Butwasitherdriveway

But I would show up. I'd be there Confused
You are missing the point.
DahliaMacNamara · 04/04/2021 19:37

I don't see the problem with someone ordering a taxi to be picked up from Dahlia's House, provided the punter is actually waiting outside. I would never know. I'm agog at people ordering and paying for food to be delivered to a stranger's house, then not being there to intercept it. I've rejected the odd unexpected takeaway myself and not given it a second thought. I wonder if it was a similar scenario? CFery.

JustLyra · 04/04/2021 19:37

I’ve done the taxi thing before. Taxis here won’t come out to just a street, they insist on a number. Once I done it when I turned my ankle and another twice I’ve done it when there’s been a man hovering too close behind me to long while I was walking and I felt uncomfortable.

App book a taxi to a house with lights on, then have a loud call to a friend telling them that I’m waiting for a taxi at X number Y street.

DrSbaitso · 04/04/2021 19:37

@Butwasitherdriveway

But I would show up. I'd be there Confused
And the driver would have to knock on the door to verify that the person actually living there hadn't ordered the food and you weren't a chances. She'd still be disturbed and have her details on their database.

Don't use other people's addresses!

JustLyra · 04/04/2021 19:39

And the driver would have to knock on the door to verify that the person actually living there hadn't ordered the food

That never happened once when we had to do it. Only one time did the driver even ask to see the order on my phone.

It actually made me have one of us wait at the gate even once it was fixed because I realised how easy it is to pinch someone’s takeaway!

Sansaplans · 04/04/2021 19:42

@DahliaMacNamara

I don't see the problem with someone ordering a taxi to be picked up from Dahlia's House, provided the punter is actually waiting outside. I would never know. I'm agog at people ordering and paying for food to be delivered to a stranger's house, then not being there to intercept it. I've rejected the odd unexpected takeaway myself and not given it a second thought. I wonder if it was a similar scenario? CFery.
I don't see the issue if they turn up, but some taxi companies will block the address from ordering cabs if there are so many no shows or someone causes mayhem in the taxi etc (probably best not to ask how I know this).
MaLarkinn · 04/04/2021 19:43

@Imissmoominmama strange times indeed. I can't understand the comments calling her a bitch. Nothing bothers me at all!

tttigress · 04/04/2021 19:43

I'm pretty sure that the driver is meant to deliver to the address, not allow someone to intercept the delivery before delivered.

Not sure if you can log a complaint? Obviously not with the driver, as being an Uber Eats driver must be s complete nightmare.

MaLarkinn · 04/04/2021 19:45

@Butwasitherdriveway I've done this, homeowner didn't know a thing about it. Did it for safety mainly.

Hellohello53452 · 04/04/2021 19:45

Lol it’s quite funny 😄 tbf no harm done

AcornAutumn · 04/04/2021 19:46

[quote MaLarkinn]@Butwasitherdriveway I've done this, homeowner didn't know a thing about it. Did it for safety mainly.[/quote]
Whose safety?

LadyLolaRuben · 04/04/2021 19:46

Cheeky not to be there to receive it so it didn't inconvenience you but, it was resourceful

tttigress · 04/04/2021 19:49

As others have said, I'm shocked about this takeaway trend, it isn't exactly cheap for a start, I wonder where some people who are pleading poverty get their money from.

The other thing is, quite often the food is likely not in the best state when delivered. When in McDonald's there are loads of ubereats pickups, McDonald's is not good that tastes good when it has been sitting even for a short while.

malmi · 04/04/2021 19:49

@LudoBear

Have people become so lazy that they now want food delivered to parks??

I'm sick of deliveroo etc. I went the chip shop on Friday, had to stand and queue for half an hour whilst they dealt with all the deliveroo orders. Everyone is just getting lazier and lazier. If you want food, go and get it.

Why not make your own chips? Lazy!!

Or:

If all those people had gone in person there still would have been a massive queue, just of hungry people instead of deliveroo drivers.

LabbyNoona · 04/04/2021 19:50

@tttigress

I'm pretty sure that the driver is meant to deliver to the address, not allow someone to intercept the delivery before delivered.

Not sure if you can log a complaint? Obviously not with the driver, as being an Uber Eats driver must be s complete nightmare.

They’ve never asked me to verify I live at that address! I’m the one who can tell them what’s in the order, order number and usually the driver’s name!
alexdgr8 · 04/04/2021 19:51

i had exactly this happen to me last summer.
i was just leaving my house, and thought the driver was lost.
i would have been very worried if he'd been banging at my door.
i get nervous of people approaching the house, they could be anyone.
i had to convince him it was not ordered by anyone at my address.
i had just gone out, and there was no one else there.
i told him to ring the customer's contact number, thought the address must have been taken down wrongly, i would direct him. but no, he checked, the customer insisted my address.
i was getting quite worried by now.
then eventually a young man came puffing out of the park.
i said please do not ever do that again, it really alarmed me.
he did have the grace to apologise.
i think some young people are so self-centred.

LabbyNoona · 04/04/2021 19:51

@tttigress

As others have said, I'm shocked about this takeaway trend, it isn't exactly cheap for a start, I wonder where some people who are pleading poverty get their money from.

The other thing is, quite often the food is likely not in the best state when delivered. When in McDonald's there are loads of ubereats pickups, McDonald's is not good that tastes good when it has been sitting even for a short while.

You’re shocked that people get takeaways? Really? 😂
WeAllHaveWings · 04/04/2021 19:53

You got very involved in the delivery.

A simple, sorry no one hear has ordered anything, thanks bye and shut the door would be enough. Then it up to the driver to sort it out.

alexdgr8 · 04/04/2021 19:54

@Hellohello53452

Lol it’s quite funny 😄 tbf no harm done
it's actually quite frightening for lots of people who live alone, or fear stalkers/ harassment.
GreyhoundG1rl · 04/04/2021 19:56

You’re shocked that people get takeaways? Really? 😂.
Takeaways delivered to somebody else’s address is hardly something to 😂 about, unless you’re a self absorbed tit who sees no reason not to use everything they fancy regardless of who it actually belongs to.

DrSbaitso · 04/04/2021 19:57

I'm shocked about this takeaway trend

The concept of takeaways is both new and shocking to you?

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