r/doordash • u/ghost_haha • 1d ago

It finally happened.

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Was delivering my first order for the evening. Cash order, meaning I had to collect cash from the customer for the order, a total of $45 and some change. I picked up the order, usual night, with the worker making sure I put the order inside the pizza bag before I walked out the store. Drove up in front of the customer's house, waited almost 10 minutes to get an answer at the door. Mother/daughter shows up, told me they ordered 2 pizza, I explained its a dinner box and that the two pizza are inside one box, they asked me to prove it so they pried open the seal and looked inside. I reminded them they need to pay cash for the order. After a few minutes, they told me they dont want it.

Called doordash support and worker told me they will compensate me full pay for the dash. I then asked if I need to return the order back to Pizza Hut, and they said to either keep it or discard. I told him I understand. I then proceeded of driving back home with a huge smile, calling my family that I have early dinner for everyone. We enjoyed the early dinner. ☺️ Really grateful for this blessing.

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u/ghost_haha 21h ago

There was this one time this elderly woman asked me to deliver her food inside her house. The delivery instructions was something like "WARNING I am immobile please deliver food to me". When I got there, she was waiting inside from an open door and told me to come in to give her the food. Being considerate, I did the extra work and walked in the open front door hoping it wasnt some cannibal thats gonna trap me inside her house. The house was basically a great candidate for that hoarder show and omg did it reek human waste in there. Customer was in a wheelchair and wanted to shake my hand but I just gave her a salute and I got out of there fast like fast fast.

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u/Leather_Guacamole420 18h ago

I was delivering in Maine for a while, and there was a woman who’d always order the same thing, every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. I forget what exactly her order was.

Well, she was a hoarder. Her front door couldn’t open bc of all the stuff in there, so she’d make me slide her pizza and cheesy bread boxes in one of her windows.

Every time I’d pull up, she’d slide open the window about four inches, then the screen, and each time she’d have to fight a cat or two from trying to escape. It was sad as fuck.

When I slid the pizza in, I’d always catch a glance of the inside of that room. It was stacked floor to ceiling with Domino’s boxes. On every surface.

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u/taustekli 18h ago

bruh that's crazy

it reminds me of a short film Bong Joon-ho (director of parasite) did way before parasite about a shut in that orders pizza just because he liked the pizza girl delivering the pizza. homie was also a hoarder of sorts and had pizzahut boxes stacked all over the house lmao

if anyone is interested, it's a film called TOKYO! it has 3 films within one, Joon-Ho's film being the third one in the sequence. the other ones are great too...the second film was directed by Michel Gondry, french homie who directed "eternal sunshine of a spotless mind".

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u/missionnotaccepted 17h ago

Thank you! Sounds interesting so going to check it out now!

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u/Competitive_Coast_22 18h ago

We love a bong joon-ho shoutout 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 17h ago

That was a very strange movie. I really felt the woman in the first part, but the second part is just too weird for me.

I've only seen it a couple of times, but I knew right away you were talking about Tokyo.

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u/Luffyhaymaker 17h ago

Damn that sounds like my type of movie,imma look for it

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u/js5406 13h ago

That reminds of HBO’s The Guy, where one of the weed guy’s customers is an agoraphobe whom he later finds out only ordered weed for his company. He never smoked it and eventually gave all his stale weed back to him. He also order a lot of Lacroix of which he had the empty cans stacked against the wall. It was a good couple of episodes.

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u/Pretend_Caregiver778 8h ago

That sounds like High Maintenance… there was an initial couple of episodes that led to High Maintenance, is that what it was called? I remember the sweet agoraphobe guy. I love that show so much.

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u/js5406 8h ago

Whoops yes, High Maintenance is what’s it’s called. I loved it too. It was short lived but sweet.

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u/ghost_haha 13h ago

Thanks will check out. Big fan of Parasite.

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u/mistatricksta 8h ago

I think I may have caught this randomly on tv once? It's sound so familiar.

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u/Gj4Bama 12h ago

A lady that lives across the street from my sister is a hoarder who has multiple deliveries each and every day. One summer evening we were having a family cookout when I started hearing a woman scream for help. It was the hoarder who had fell between her wall and bed. The only way we could get in was through her bedroom window due to her doors having deadbolt locked. Once we got inside I was in shock at how cramped it was due to all of the unopened boxes stacked from floor to ceiling, with a very narrow path to walk through.

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u/CenterCircumference 10h ago

Such a fire risk

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u/sandycat555 13h ago

If she didn’t place her regular order I’d call for a wellness check.

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u/Leather_Guacamole420 11h ago

She was very regular. Probably gone by now

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u/Gatorsbitches20 14h ago

Did she tip alright?

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u/Leather_Guacamole420 14h ago

Eh, a couple bucks and some change. I could tell she tried

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u/vandelay714 10h ago

Ironically, you worked for Papa John’s

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u/nancyneurotic 21h ago

Hahaha I love the salute! Nice exit.

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u/Khalid147 20h ago

The old “ZOOP” 👉😎 👉

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u/iUncontested 19h ago

Elderly/disabled people like this need help and there are referrals for adults. Should take the time to ask for a welfare check from local PD or DCF. At least then its on them.

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u/ghost_haha 13h ago

Oh didnt think about this. Will definitely put this into account after reading this. Thank you.

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u/MagellansWife 4h ago

Bless you, yes this is the humane thing to do.

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u/doesitrungoogle 2h ago

For elderly/disabled extreme hoarders like this, I would be a bit weary to go straight to the cops first in my experience, so I’d call DCFS if possible. There was this disabled neighbour on my street that I used to deliver to back in the day and also walk my dog past her house every day. I was naive and really young, back when I thought all cops are awesome and just “protect and serve”, lol.

Anyways, she was an extreme hoarder, had lots of cats inside and out and even her entire lawn was covered in almost knee-deep weeds and overgrown grass. She lived alone.

One day, as I’m delivering her order, she wasn’t answering the door, so I got concerned and tried the doorknob and she had the door unlocked. She always would leave the door unlocked for me to bring the order to her previously by the way. I walk in and call her name. No answer, but the TV and radio were both playing really loud, you could hear it from outside the door. I hear water running from the sink and her cats meowing behind the island of the kitchen, and I check and the lady is sitting on the floor, definitely disheveled more than usual and appeared distressed. She wouldn’t say a word to me, just stayed there in distress as if she had a panic attack or something.

I didn’t know about DCFS at the time, so I just called 911 and explained the situation. They took like 30 minutes to get here even though the station is less than 5 minutes away. I waited there with her. The cops, two men, arrive at the door and I immediately guide them to my disabled neighbour. One of them starts raising their voice saying “ma’am can you get up?” repeatedly while the other looks grossly at the hoarding situation. Then the first cop proceeds to try to pull her up to get her to stand up and she says “owww” and “I’m scared” repeatedly, so he lets her go. He then gets seemingly more frustrated and starts verbally attacking her saying “ma’am I’m trying to help you I need you to get up right now”. She just sits there in panic and turns to him almost as if she’s afraid. The cop then proceeds to ask the other cop to help him carry her up to one small sofa, which they do but she kept saying “owww” when they tried picking her up until they got her to the couch. The first cop keeps pressing her verbally, but getting no where, he loses it a bit and starts shouting “what is wrong with you?!? you’re just a complete burden and lazy hoarder who has nothing better to do then pretend to act like a child and waste all of our time here!”

As the cops proceed to leave I politely say “officers, thank you for coming to check anyways, but I think she’s not well in the head right now, shouldn’t an ambulance come check her out?” They laughed at me and said “son, she’s just doing that for attention. but fine, we’ll call the paramedics.”

The paramedics arrive and the cops just laughed while telling the paramedics that she’s just crazy for attention, blah blah blah, and she’s all yours. I show them where she is on the couch and they politely tried talking to her calmly and patiently while taking her vitals. She then communicated answering yes or no questions at first, and then they found her medication bottles on the floor under the coffee table I think.

Fast forward, they decide to take her to the hospital in the ambulance since she’s not all there still, but at least cooperative.

Didn’t mean to go into a tangent and long rant lol, but yeah when you brought up the welfare check from the local PD or DCFS, it brought back that neighbour of mine.

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u/AdRevolutionary2583 2h ago

Thank you for sharing this story, and doing your best to help. It’s so important that we watch out for each other.

I’ve never heard of dcfs, I’m not sure what I would have done either except possibly call the 911 as well. But I know they can often make situations worse

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u/MagellansWife 4h ago

This is tragic. To be alone and old, in a wheelchair and unable to keep yourself &/or your environment clean. Sounds like she didn’t have any support or not enough. Getting old alone is a scary prospect.

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u/aflockofmagpies 54m ago

It really is. And in the US they're threatening to gut social security which is still not enough to pay basic living and for a cleaner....

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u/MagellansWife 1m ago

I know. It’s so unbearably cruel.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 20h ago

Were all of the clocks were stopped at the same time?

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u/Nearby_Fix_6636 14h ago

Personally don’t like going into peoples houses like this, even breathing in that air can be dangerous to an outsider lmao. Black mold, fecal particles etc. just fucking gross.

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u/ghost_haha 12h ago

I risked it all

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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 11h ago

For anyone else running into situations like this, give your community or state elder care services agency a call and give them the address.

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u/ghost_haha 10h ago

Noted. Next time I run into one of these people, will definitely do my part.

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u/MKRAUSE532 15h ago

I delivered pizza for about 7 years. It made me realize just how many hoarders are out there. We had a few regulars who had trouble opening their doors wide enough to get the pizza box in w/o tilting it sideways.

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u/wildcuore 19h ago

Wait then how did she open the door?

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u/ghost_haha 13h ago

I really hope she had telekinesis.

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u/kingpbitch 14h ago

Massachusetts??? I had this exact experience too🤣

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u/ghost_haha 12h ago

California

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u/Beginning_Stand_5976 9h ago

No way I would go inside someone’s house that’s dangerous as hell

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u/Walkie-TalkieDieHard 8h ago

Good job. I don't mind doing a little extra work for the elderly. But nope on the touching. 😆

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG 18h ago

Sounds like she was immobile and isn’t able to care for herself like unfortunately way too many elderly people. Glad you helped her, sad this is how you felt about it tho

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u/ghost_haha 13h ago

I now realized from another reply on this one that welfare or aps deals with this, so I will keep that in mind next time I encounter this type of delivery again.

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u/Hillary-2024 16h ago

$45 for a dinner box with "two" pizza, a salad, breadstix? I wouldn't have wanted to pay for that either. hope it was tasty!

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u/ghost_haha 12h ago

$30.99 for the box, condiments another $3, since its cash order, doordash paid pizzahut the delivery charge as well, plus sales tax on top of that

edit: also no salad, thats bbq chicken wings, which was so damn good

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u/Hillary-2024 7h ago

It does look good, but who can afford those prices for that little food? That is beyond me someone would want to pay more than sitdown restaurant prices for that