Am I insane?

[sashh]

I have a drinks fridge, always stocked with cans and bottles of water, occasionally beer.

In a heatwave I give out drinks to delivery drivers and the bin men.

My friend thinks I'm insane.

If you were delivering all day would you welcome a cold drink?

YABU - yes you are insane.
YANBU - you are doing a nice thing.

After he had gone I felt really bad I hadn't offered the Tesco delivery driver a drink, especially when he said they don't have air con in the vans.

That’s the spirit! 😂

Lovely thing to do OP.

Saintsbury have just delivered. I told him a bit about this, just that there was an online discussion. He says I'm not creepy and drink is appreciated.

Anyone delivering here in hot weather is offered a cold bottle of water or can of fizzy drink. It’s a humane thing and a way to show you appreciate their effort.

The AO men are always willing to do something extra while here as a result (we’ve had a new kitchen and extension so they have been here more than is usual!). Being nice gets you nice. It’s just oiling the wheels of a functioning society.

I think the seconds it would take someone to drink a glass of water on the spot are negligible compared to the importance of not generating extra single-use plastic waste.

@FlippantlyShe ....whilst I agree to an extent, being able to take a bottle of water with you means drivers etc can drink as they go. My DP is a Postie, this weather is brutal. He starts his round with 2l of water on him (can't carry anymore due to also lugging the post around!), normally gone within an hour, having a customer give him a cold water or offer to fill one of his empty bottles up makes his day.
I'm sure you'd not approve of us- any delivery driver atm gets a bottle of water offered & if we have anyone working in the house, such as the mediquip team then its drinks & wrapped biscuits.
I simply see it as being part of a functioning society, and I'm pretty such it's appreciated x

But any postie or the like will have a water bottle with him/her in weather like this. Just offer to refill it!

The poor tractor driver who cuts the grass around my house deserves a cold drink in this oppressive heat. Any decent person wouldn't think twice about giving them a cold drink. I do wonder though if men would do the same!

She's giving them a cold drink not luring them into the back of a van to look at puppies.

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

I bet she sits by the door, waiting for victims, so she can give them something out of her self-image-fridge.

Oh yes. All the delivery men love her!

YANBU. You are being kind and thoughtful and I'm sure they all really appreciate it 😊

No, you're not insane. I always offer to refill water bottles/ coffee flasks and tell them that they're welcome to use the (downstairs) loo. I offer ice lollies and biscuits too, if I have any.
When I was a kid DM always used to offer the peg sellers and knife sharpeners a sandwich and a mug of tea in the garden. We lived in flat with a weird set-up so it wasn't strange that they weren't invited in, which to be honest she was wary of.

It’s a lovely thing to do. Keep doing it.

I do the same. My brother used to read electricity meters and he was always so grateful when he was offered a cold drink.

Delivery drivers and bin men are only there for a matter of minutes and I usually don't even see them - parcels get left in the porch and I'm working when the bin men come. But I've often offered my window cleaner a cold drink in warm weather and if someone was delivering something that needed bringing into the house or setting up (eg furniture or a washing machine or something) I'd certainly offer them something.

Any workmen who comes to my house are always offered a drink, whatever the weather.

Just half an hour ago I offered my postwoman a cold drink and use of the loo, if she needed it. She declined both but was grateful.

YANBU

What a very unpleasant thing to say. Are you hoping for another ooh-I’m-so-edgy deletion like last night? Go take your bitterness out for a walk in the sunshine, you might start feeling better.

The heat is obviously getting to you

It’s a nice thing to do, I offer here aswell. I don’t have bottled water but will offer a cold iced water (we also don’t drink soft drinks 😂)
Obviously anyone working in/on the house is offered a more extensive selection because I’ll have purposely bought stuff for them and usually make a cake too, but general food shop delivery people and anyone else here longer than 30 seconds that I make human contact with will be offered a cold drink and they usually very gratefully accept, it’s just nice to be nice.

He would say that, wouldn't he.

This thread inspired me to leave a few cans of pop in a bucket of icy water for the bin men.

Okay, now you’re just trying too hard.

It's not particularly edgy to point out that what this woman is doing (giving stuff away and then posting about it) is buying self-esteem.

My husband offered a delivery man today a cold drink as he was leaving. He didn’t accept but was really grateful. I think it’s a lovely thing to do