I had a delivery on Wednesday night, and the driver was quite stressed. He'd been waiting around to try and deliver a bouquet of flowers to my neighbour but no one in her part of the block was answering their doors and he couldn't access the building to leave the flowers outside her door. He told me he was on the clock and had to go, and could I please do him a favour and take in the flowers.
I didn't want to as I knew it would be tricky for me to deliver them to her - we live in a block of flats that's divided into three sections, and our key fobs only give you access to the section of the block you live in. Her flat is in a separate block to mine, so I can't just pop up and leave them outside her door. She or someone in her block has to be at home to let me in. However, the delivery driver was so desperate and he said if he took the flowers back to the depot they would just die, so I felt guilted into it.
I got home late on Thursday after work and tried her bell to deliver the flowers - no answer. No one else in the block answered either (there's only 3 flats in each block). I was out at work from 8am yesterday, then out with friends, so I didn't get home until 1am. I had left the flowers outside my flat as the delivery driver told me my neighbour would get a notification that they were with me, and could come and collect them - my downstairs neighbours are often in during the day so they could have buzzed her into the building. The flowers were still there when I got in last night so I took them out of the box and put them in some water to keep them alive.
This morning I have tried again to go and deliver them, but still she isn't answering and neither was anyone else in the block.
I'm out tonight and all day tomorrow, so I'm not here to keep popping over and seeing if she's in. I don't know her and have no means of contacting her - we don't have post boxes or anything like that, so I can't even leave her a note. We're in central London on a busy street, and our flats front straight onto the pavement, so there's nowhere safe for me to leave them outside the front door to her block for her to see when she comes home.
The flowers are now looking pretty worse for wear. Would it be unreasonable for me to just keep them? By the time I manage to deliver them to her, at this rate, they'll be dead! I feel terrible but I feel like there's not much else I can do!