To send a note to the cheeky fuckers who just stole our Valentines takeaway?

[StolenBhuna]

NC for obvious reasons.

We have just had to wait more than an extra hour for our delivery because the first one they sent was apparently accepted by the occupier when the teenaged driver knocked at the wrong house. The houses do look alike so mistakes happen and the weather is bad tonight.

I rang the restaurant manager when tracking said it was delivered (it wasn’t). He gave me the usual “on its way” flannel you get from managers who don’t know what’s happened. So I said don’t worry. Busy night. We will wait.

He rang back half an hour later, outraged himself at what he has realised and told me “naughty number blah-di-blah took it, my driver knocked the wrong door”. I didn’t ask which house. I didn’t get a chance. He obviously wanted me to know he wasn’t lying. So he told me specifically and now I know.

Luckily a matey dinner with ex instead of a romantic curry night.

Do I pop a note along to point out its not nice to take stuff you haven’t paid for? Just so they know?

@OnlyAFleshWound

You are nicer than me. I would be knocking on their door tonight.

me too! The cheeky twats

Roses are red

Violets are blue

You p p p p picked up our pakoras

I hope they make you p p p poo.

This happened to us once - we'd ordered fish and chips on deliveroo so accepted a delivery. When we opened it it was Mexican food and 5 mins later our order arrived. We couldn't get through to customer services to find out who it belonged and so there was someone in our neighbourhood cursing their food stealers when it wasn't actually our fault. I'm sure there were loads of people ordering takeaways for valentines so could be a honest mistake and they were hoping someone would come round and claim it.

I too wonder if someone took it in thinking a housemate or family member had ordered it. They probably dumped ot on the table, shouted “takeaway is here” and it’s been left sitting there as nobody thought it belonged to them.

FFs MNHQ ditch the raspberry jam chicken ad and ALL ads by the abysmal AK.

Can't concentrate on matters in hand when the stupid 'raspberry chicken' is shoved down my throat. It's not even a thing. STOP

@Versaillaise

You could send them an anonymous valentine's day card: Roses are red, violets are blue, I hope you enjoyed my vindaloo

Classic!! And a return number to make amends!! X

My best one was the time I got someone's working from home lunch via Deliveroo groceries.

They had ordered low fat pasta salad, fresh fruit, juice, 2 litres of Volvic, crispbreads. Enough for two people.

I'd ordered a box of wine, a pouch of tobacco, a fuckload of cheese, & a family bag of Haribo. I would have loved to see their faces

@Nosnogginginthekitchen

Order them a bunch of cash on delivery takeaways as payback

Why would you do that? It'd hurt the takeaway businesses much more than the neighbours.

(In my defence, I was having a childfree weekend & decided I couldn't be arsed to leave the house for the essentials)

I've taken in a takeaway ot for us before. 2 reasons - DH and I quite often eat seperately for various reasons (so I assumed he'd ordered it) and my sister ordered us a takeaway one night when we were having a horrible time.

So it may not have been deliberate on their part.

...AK is 64 gs. She's a publicity machine. STOP endorsing her. There must be others who can make purees and wear soft jerseys and aren't irritatingly smug. How much do you (MN) pay her? She must be on a contract. Presumably you do focus groups so she comes out tops? Really?

You would have to have a hard heart to take a £35 meal off him, knowing you have not paid and he could get in trouble in his first job. Also, it’s Valentine’s Day

You sound like a lovely person, OP, and I'm glad you've been generous about this. Let's just hope the thieves come to repent one day. Actually I hope the stolen meal gives them raging heartburn too.

Hope you're having a lovely evening.

I wouldnt bother. They won't suddenly become moral because of the note. You'll just potentially add aggro. Cheeky though!

DS accepted a takeaway a few days ago. He didn't know we hadn't ordered it. By some amazing stroke of luck my teenager asked before wolfing the pizza down and the owner turned up 10 minutes later and recovered it.

@13yearslater Wrong thread maybe?

I’ve been the one that received a takeaway just left on my front doorstep (not sure how long it had been out there). I called the place and they had no idea who it was for. I asked a few of the neighbours I know but none claimed it. No address on it and no receipt. Just typical branding on the boxes.

I think on busy nights there can be a lot of miscommunication including wrong addresses etc.

P.s I didn’t eat it out of sheer fear someone would come knocking all annoyed and when no one did I didn’t eat it in case it was left there wilts bad intent .

could have nicked it but its a popular night for takeaways could have been waiting for the same thing?

ive had so many deliveries at my door its an odd layout with two doors at the front so they think one of my doors is a neighbour

I love how on MN posters always jump to the worst possible conclusion.

They must be a cheeky thieving twat, it couldn't possibly be that it got mixed up with their own takeaway, they thought it was for someone else at the address, or that the driver left it on their doorstep before they could say anything.

Always scheming CFs who deserve to be publicly shamed for intentionally taking your food, not confused neighbours who've probably spent time asking around or on the phone to the takeaway trying to sort it out.

Isn't it a bit exhausting assuming the worst constantly?

Mm..

I have had deliveries practically thrown at us and the driver back in their car before we've figured out neither of us has ordered anything.

However those were delivered by UberEats and theres no way of calling them back, and calling the restaurant couldn't tell us whose food it was.

If we get a takeaway that isn't ours, we knock the other three doors on our terrace, but thats a small terraced row, easy enough to do.

There is a chance its a mistake... but theres a strong chance they're chancers who feel like this is a victimless crime, who will poo their pants if challenged.

So I would stick a note through!

I’d tell the restaurant to go and invoice them!

while its annoying it could be a genuine mistake. especially if a teen opened the door. I had a neighbour about 10 houses away bring my primary school aged children's school shoes to my house once. Her teen son had accepted the delivery. Its not unusual for us to order a curry take away and ask them to leave it on the doorstep if we have not made it home on time. My teen son wouldn't bat an eye lid if food was delivered he would assume it was me.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

I've had young drivers, old drivers, nice drivers, horrible drivers. I had 78% of all of Deliveroo knock on my door with some delivery for her.

And once had a huge box with some furniture delivered and the cow just left it with me, and when I went to tell her she informed me she's about to go for a coffee with friends and can she pick it up tomorrow. No, you ungrateful sod, it's either now or it's getting kicked out on the street.

Sorry OP. I know I'm unreasonable but the next pizza is mine.

We have a neighbour like that. Last week we had 3 huge boxes from a food company left on our doorstep (they still seem to be doing deliver and and run). I was very tempted to keep it but we were expecting a large delivery of medical supplies so needed it out of the way. DH just dumped it on her step as she won't answer the door anyway, she is clearly a mumsnetter.

I've had take away delivery drivers appear at my door with meals before when they weren't mine. Not once have I ever considered taking someone else's food ...I always direct them to the street (same house number) they're actually looking for!

Do you know they actually accepted it? I have had take aways left on my door for the wrong address during the start of “non contact delivery”