Im at a loss and definitely at the end of my patience here. just wanted to share here to see if it would annoy you all too.
I'm honestly (promise!!!) not a stroppy person. I don't send food back in restaurants and things like that. I don't complain for small reasons, life's too short. But we've been renting our current place for almost a year and this is driving me nuts.
Without revealing our real address let's say we live at 7 Big Hippo Road. It's a very big new build development with hundreds of apartments and so luck would have it we live in apartment 7B. For some unknown reason it's a huge ordeal for people to type out Big Hippo road and EVERY single day, several times a day we get deliveries for basically anywhere in the building addressed to 7 B Hippo Road (usually the apartment number is like on the next line and delivery drivers are just careless). When I say every day; I mean every single day. And, more annoyingly, night too (late night pizzas etc)
We have an intercom downstairs so first they ring the intercom which even at its lowest setting is fairly loud (can't turn it off as we also get deliveries quite often, most our household essentials are on monthly order with Amazon). I have a one month old and a two year old. When I was pregnant sleep was very hard to come by. My two year old wakes up at 6 am every day. The only time I could nap was when she napped and if I got woken up it was so so hard to fall asleep again. Cute the motherforking deliveries that aren't for us. i get 15 minutes sleep, get woken up, can't fall asleep again.
Even worse, then someone orders a pizza or Chinese at 1 am. We ALL get woken up. Imagine having a toddler and newborn woken up in the middle of the night, I've literally shed tears over this, it's exhausting and just such an unnecessary hardship. Obviously also now our one month old especially gets woken up by the doorbells and some of them also talk really loud. Especially the royal mail driver we have. He is here like every day, making the same mistake every day!
We can mute the intercom overnight but we forget to do it a lot of the time, or then forget to unmute it's and end up missing our own deliveries.
so I started being very mean to delivery drivers. I can't help it I literally started to hate them. They ARGUE WITH ME. I used to say: it's not for me, show me what the address says, and point out where the flat number is written down. They would get annoyed, and say it says 7B!! And I'm like: do you think I ordered food, paid for it, and now decided I don't want it any more? Or do you think I did this asos shop and then decided I can't be asked and not to receive it? I don't get it why are they fighting with me?
so now I literally just tell them off and talk to them like they're toddlers and tell them they have one job and they suck at it etc and honestly that's just not the person I like to be. It's kind of satisfying in the moment but long term it's definitely negativity I could live without.
If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate them 😫 maybe I can take this to the concierge and tell them to screen everyone coming in, but I just dont think it's possible. Mind you when my cat died the same day my baby was born, i ran out in my socks to get him to the emergency vet and came home without him, devastated, not even recovered from the absolute terror that my labour was and the little f*cker at the concierge desk decided to ask me if I live there. I get it I'm a barefoot mess but fi you can screen me screen the delivery drivers too I guess? Just such an annoying situation sorry and thank you if you read it all