29 Of The Weirdest And Wildest Things Seen By Food Delivery Drivers On The Job

Eating in is the new dining out. Just scroll through your bank statement of the last month and see how those delish treats reign the balance. But who doesn’t like their hot and steamy food delivered straight to the comfort of their home?

With a pandemic changing the ways we live, food deliveries have become a key part of our new reality. It’s now predicted that US restaurant delivery sales will rise an average of 12% a year to $76 billion in the next four years. So not only will we be eating in way more, we will also have more workers getting on board the delivery business.

And with that comes some very weird and funny real-time stories where food orders meet crazy, hangry, and sometimes, super nice customers. Let’s see some of the best stories from food delivery employees themselves who shared ‘what is the strangest scenario you have had with an order?’ in this viral thread.

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29 Of The Weirdest And Wildest Things Seen By Food Delivery Drivers On The Job I got one! That one time a followed a weird middle aged guy into his basement for a life affirming surprise....

Delivering pizzas my attitude is that nothing can really go that wrong so long as I drive carefully, avoid muggings, and never enter a customer's home. When I was younger and hadn't yet adopted that last rule I delivered a proper stack of pizzas to a really nice house in a very wealthy neighborhood where I was greeted by a classic mid 50's suburbanite guy. I had like 50lbs of pizzas and he' was just vibrating with excitement like a little kid asking me if I wanted to see something amazing in his basement where the pizzas were going anyway.

Yeah it sounds like a lot of red flag, but from his vibe and the amount of pizza he'd ordered I figured he was having some kind of game night with his buddies and was eager to show off his layout, entertainment system, bar, etc... Wealthy guys love showing the sweet toys they worked for to broke younger folks, and when you're working for tips sometimes an "oooh" or an "aaah" at a car or in-home luxury you don't care about is worth an extra $10. So I followed him into his huge house, preparing myself to express amazement at his whatever.

We get down to the basement and it was a puppy party. A true and actual puppy party, some sort of adoption event he'd set up for his kids b-day. Exactly as I'd expected, there was a classic rich guy basement with a full bar and pool table and wall sized entertainment center and huge sectional couch and recliners. What I didn't expect was a gaggle of 8th grade girls playing with DOZENS of puppies being supervised by handlers. Every kind of puppy I could imagine. I set the pizzas down on the bar and just sat on the floor and squealed and giggled while puppies tried to eat the smell of pizza off of me, succeeding only in devouring my heart through my face.

After a few minutes I stood up all teary eyed and flushed with happiness and the guy just grinned his understanding at me, gave me an envelope of cash, and sent me on my way. The hit of oxytocin and seratonin from those puppies still warms me years later... F**kin puppy party, man. My life is fuller knowing that can even happen.

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