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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:
PinkTonic · 04/04/2021 20:21

[quote FelicityBeedle]@GreyhoundG1rl If done properly the resident has no idea? Their house number isn’t some sacred code to be used only by them, it’s just a way of indicating area[/quote]
You’re linking the address to a financial transaction. What if it was found not to have gone through properly and that’s the address they have? You are linking the address to an order which may then result in junk mail. You are potentially disturbing the occupants if you don’t manage to intercept the delivery. It’s not your address, so don’t be so fucking cheeky.

tiredmum2468 · 04/04/2021 20:22

I'd have kept the takeaway myself that'll teach her!

Glitteryone · 04/04/2021 20:22

I’ve never thought of ordering a takeaway or coffees to the park.... Great idea 😂 So cheeky to use someone else’s address though and turn up at their door to demand it!

therocinante · 04/04/2021 20:22

@Catslovepies

I wouldn't really mind about the house and might actually think "what a good idea". However I'd be really angry on behalf of the poor underpaid driver who shouldn't have been kept waiting as in his job the only way to make a living is to keep moving.
This. I think it's quite clever really, and doesn't affect you in any way - wouldn't be remotely bothered (but then I've done this with Dial-a-Beer in the park when I was at uni! But of course we were outside waiting to collect it). But she should have been there to pick it up and not fuck the driver about.
Kettledodger · 04/04/2021 20:23

I agree @Artesia as long as the order is intercepted ( I know it wasn't on this occasion) why the rage?

Onjnmoeiejducwoapy · 04/04/2021 20:24

Some of the Hyacinth Buckets on this thread, losing their shit over people ordering takeaway 😂

LabbyNoona · 04/04/2021 20:25

@Onjnmoeiejducwoapy

Some of the Hyacinth Buckets on this thread, losing their shit over people ordering takeaway 😂
Haha I know right Grin Nothing better to do...
Kettledodger · 04/04/2021 20:25

@PinkTonicI think you will find that financial transactions are bound by the address linked to the card NOT the delivery

Onjnmoeiejducwoapy · 04/04/2021 20:28

The address of the Bucket family, linked to takeaway foods of foreign extraction? [faints]

Kettledodger · 04/04/2021 20:29

@Onjnmoeiejducwoapy I think some just need to chill a little Grin

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 04/04/2021 20:29

Baffled by the number of people who have put total strangers addresses down so they can order takeaway to a bloody park.

Maybe just live with the fact that you can't have uber eats if you are sat in a park. Some serious CFs out there.

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 04/04/2021 20:30

Oh and if anyone bloody did this to my house I would 100% have taken the takeaway. Their fault.

TristantheTyrannosaurus · 04/04/2021 20:31

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Baffled by the number of people who have put total strangers addresses down so they can order takeaway to a bloody park.

Maybe just live with the fact that you can't have uber eats if you are sat in a park. Some serious CFs out there.

This! Never heard of this till now. So yeah, if someone knocked on the door with a takeaway in that setting I'd deem it a happy accident and tuck in.
LabbyNoona · 04/04/2021 20:33

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Baffled by the number of people who have put total strangers addresses down so they can order takeaway to a bloody park.

Maybe just live with the fact that you can't have uber eats if you are sat in a park. Some serious CFs out there.

Why would I put up with that when I can have a great takeaway in the park?! Grin
AcornAutumn · 04/04/2021 20:33

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Oh and if anyone bloody did this to my house I would 100% have taken the takeaway. Their fault.
Exactly. Just say, oh I thought DH ordered it.
therocinante · 04/04/2021 20:34

You’ve clearly got time in your day to waste then

...what time would be wasted if she was there to collect it? The PP said it was annoying that she wasn't, but otherwise it wasn't a big deal. And they're right - if they were there to collect, the homeowner would never have known anything about it and everyone would be perfectly happy, so it's clearly not a big deal unless said takeaway-orderer isn't there.

I've never met a group of people as uptight as the posters on AIBU, I swear to god.

ImAlrightThanx · 04/04/2021 20:34

I wouldn't care if she had parked herself up nearby to receive it.
Letting him ring the bell and disturb you is not on though.

PinkTonic · 04/04/2021 20:35

It makes sense now. I couldn’t get my head around taking stuff to a park and then just walking away and leaving all the crap behind, I mean it’s such a straightforward concept to bring it, then take it away. But no, it doesn’t occur to them to take the crap away because they didn’t bring it, they aren’t responsible for it because someone brought it to them. Clearly it’s someone else’s job to clear it up.

Kettledodger · 04/04/2021 20:35

Just maybe sit there and think about this .. .especially at the moment. There are no restaurants, pubs or cafes open. We are allowed to go for drives to touristy places and summertime has just begun so it is lighter longer. You have spent a lovely day out and need to eat before heading home. You can't go anywhere to eat so have to order. They wont let you order without an address so you put an address in next to the park. She was wrong for not being there to intercept that's all.

therocinante · 04/04/2021 20:35

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Baffled by the number of people who have put total strangers addresses down so they can order takeaway to a bloody park.

Maybe just live with the fact that you can't have uber eats if you are sat in a park. Some serious CFs out there.

But you can have Uber Eats if you're sat in a park, clearly. Soooo...

I think it's much weirder/cheekier the amount of people saying they'd take food they haven't paid for and eat it themselves, to be honest. Very weird behaviour. Surely actual financial loss (from stolen food) is worse than your house number temporarily being used?

WiddlinDiddlin · 04/04/2021 20:36

I kind of get it if you have to give an address and for online stuff, you do...

At least one of the newer delivery services actually SHOWS folk getting food delivered to a park so they also encourage this.

I'd bloody well make sure I was loitering BY the address I'd used, to intercept it, include on the notes 'ill be waiting outside number x' and that my phone was on and I wasn't using it, so that I didn't inconvenience the home owner though!

On the other hand if that were my house I think i'd go 'oh my mistake my OH has just shouted down that he ordered it' and shut the door!

I got a free McDonalds last week as a random ubereats showed up here and flung food at my OH and ran off.

I didn't entirely believe him about the driver disappearing at speed before he could say 'um, thats not ours' but the same thing has happened FOUR times this week - they knock, run back to car or bike, loiter, I open the door, they fling the food toward me and buzz off!

I stopped two before they got to me, and two I had to shout them to turn around and pick it back up, at least I now know whose food it is... (same number, but its for a pedestrianised row a short distance from me, accessed via my street) so I point them at it but it still takes a while to sink in!

therocinante · 04/04/2021 20:36

@PinkTonic

It makes sense now. I couldn’t get my head around taking stuff to a park and then just walking away and leaving all the crap behind, I mean it’s such a straightforward concept to bring it, then take it away. But no, it doesn’t occur to them to take the crap away because they didn’t bring it, they aren’t responsible for it because someone brought it to them. Clearly it’s someone else’s job to clear it up.
Hahaha. News just in: if you order a takeaway ourdoors you are also clearly responsible for littering. Would you like to warm up before that stretch?
Pebbledashery · 04/04/2021 20:37

This needs to go on the CF thread. Sooooooooooo rude. I'd be fuming.

LabbyNoona · 04/04/2021 20:39

@PinkTonic

It makes sense now. I couldn’t get my head around taking stuff to a park and then just walking away and leaving all the crap behind, I mean it’s such a straightforward concept to bring it, then take it away. But no, it doesn’t occur to them to take the crap away because they didn’t bring it, they aren’t responsible for it because someone brought it to them. Clearly it’s someone else’s job to clear it up.
Did you post on the wrong thread? What’s littering got to do with this?
Onjnmoeiejducwoapy · 04/04/2021 20:39

@PinkTonic

It makes sense now. I couldn’t get my head around taking stuff to a park and then just walking away and leaving all the crap behind, I mean it’s such a straightforward concept to bring it, then take it away. But no, it doesn’t occur to them to take the crap away because they didn’t bring it, they aren’t responsible for it because someone brought it to them. Clearly it’s someone else’s job to clear it up.
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