to turn away my takeaway?

[FlayOtters]

Opinions please! My friend thinks me and my husband are being completely ridiculous but I'm adamant we're in the right (but happy to be told otherwise!)
Ordered an Indian takeaway on ubereats for tonight (50% off woop woop!). Asked for scheduled delivery 7.40-8. All good, order accepted, confirmation email, your order will be delivered at 7.40.
Come 6.10 there is a ring on the bell and it's our food! We were just starting to try and calm our 5 and 2 year olds down before bedtime started, and were basically nowhere near ready for dinner! So we said "no". The man just stood and stared at us like we were utterly insane. After about a minute of silent staring he went back to his car to call his manager and then yelled out of the window that he'd come back later and drove off.
Now I know there is a reasonable chance he'll just being the exact same food back (possibly with added spit), but I think the principal remains. What is the point of being able to schedule delivery if it's totally ignored?? We wanted hot, fresh food at about 8 after the boys were asleep and we could relax. My friend happened to call a minute ago and basically said that I was being ridiculous and should've just taken the food. Who's right?
YABU - just take the damn food whenever it comes, Otters!
YANBU -you paid for the food to be delivered at a certain time, it's reasoab to want it at that time.

well the post I am replying to was saying the driver should have "waited"

which makes no sense whatsoever

YANBU it's happened to me before but my DH accepted it. I was on a bus home and by the time I got there my food was cold ☹️

Order before you are ready to eat

Did you really just say “no” ? If so that’s terribly rude it’s not the delivery guys fault at all . I really hope you had a conversation with him and explained why you were not accepting the food so he could go back to his employers and tell them why

I thinks its far too early but I would have taken it and heated it up. But yes YANBU.

While I don’t think yabu, I would have accepted the food and warmed it up. I got caught out recently because I allowed asap and then took the dog out on the basis that the page said delivery would be 45 mins. Barely 20 mins later I got a phone call and they were most surprised no one was in. I just asked the to leave it in the porch and warmed it up when we got back.

Hrft

English speaking delivery driver,? sure explain the mistake but our takeaway drivers can barely understand delivery instructions (but have always been lovely and polite) so doubt they'd understand what the issue was. They aren't well paid and I generally feel sorry for the drivers.

So it seems that, contrary to the MN general consensus which is always trotted out, sometimes it is the delivery driver’s fault. Or at least that their shitty attitude makes things worse.

Reading MN sometimes you’d think these people were actual saints.