The delivery driver left my lunch on the doorstep, so I can’t get it without spilling the drink *on* the food
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Get your food on hard mode
Welcome to dark souls
Starved souls
First you must defeat Skarasnack of the Famine
Window 😂
I legit came in to suggest climbing out the window. Spilling is not an option.
And surely there's more than one entrance to the joint. Back door?
Do you guys not have garages or back doors where you live lol
Unless you have a doggie door, in which case it's getting your food on fun mode
Sooo... get your food doggy style? I didn't know that was a method
That's getting your hard on food mode.
Now I just imagine someone sticking their head out the dog door and grabbing the order with their mouth
Only logical thing is to cut a drink-sized hole in your screen badabing
The cool part is then the hole will already be there for next time. Work smart, not hard.
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Found the Aussie
Is that a sub?
Maybe they'll discover a new species of cup shaped insect?
Sounds like a perk to me.
Somebody's never heard of tape.
He heard of tapes but didnt rewind
What cup size? A Bee cup?
Modern problems need modern solutions
IDK, this seems much better than leaving a 36 pound box right up against the door! Even then all I had to do is go out the side door, walk through 12” of snow to the cleared walkway, walk to the porch and move said box so I could go back through the snow and in the side door, because I forgot to unlock the front door!
But then the delivery driver places the drink on the other side.
hmmm… maybe a sign, then… with an arrow… pointing to the existing beverage portal… detailed sketch of drink cup being pulled through said portal… instructions in at least seven languages… bright yellow tape applied to the edges of aforementioned access… it’ll work itself out
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Step Two: You put your....never mind
Step Three: Have her open the box!
Helicopter Dick
Now, just cut a straw sized hole.
But you wouldn’t be able to grab the drink or straw to put through the “straw hole”
Exactly. You drink all of the drink through the screen.
My screen doesn’t come with a badabing
badaboom
theres also probably a back door in the house
And once you're done realize that the screens can be removed towards the inside, you know easy replacement to fix the torn one. lol
There has to be a back door to walk around or a window to climb out before we get to this lol
shhhhh… aaaany moment, now… just wait…
I just spent way too long trying to figure out what a "screen babading" was but then I realized you just hit us with the prequel to badaboom
Or just go out the back door and walk around?
I was going to recommend punching a hole in the screen. Your suggestion is clearly the more civilized way.
Could always train a mongoose to go out and move the drink too.
Finally a problem that fits the title of the sub.
Posts will be like “my friend of 15 years stabbed my dog and isn’t sorry” and it’s on a subreddit about mild inconveniences
Seriously. I posted something very similar a while back, and people just told me to "get over it" because "this is nothing." Like, isn't this sub for molehills instead of mountains?
I remember a thread of some child ruining a 1st edition copy of a very old book and the sun was like “it was in bad condition anyway get over it”
Well yeah but that's the sun
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But we can't make posts about reddit.
Why hasn't anybody tried using their backdoor when this happens?
I bet that's what most people do in this situation. But it's still mildly infuriating that you're forced to do that instead of just being able to open the front door.
I’ve lived in places that you couldn’t get out of the backyard because of the lock
Hate when that happens in prison
By the looks of it he could get it from the front door but it’s annoying because you have to be very careful and squeeze through
It happened to me. I don't have a backdoor in my apartment building. I figure the Dasher didn't stop to think the door opens out, not in. So I had to knock over my milkshake to get the door open. Some of it did spill out, but I guess not as much as if it had been soda.
Can't believe I never thought of that. Brb, climbing out of my 8th storey window.
8th story apartments dont have screen doors that open out.
What kind of Apartment buildings are 8 stories tall and have access to sun light by the front door.
Your 8th story apt has a stoop?
And what kind of apartment building has a screen door?
And no alternate exits?
Edit: I have been schooled and am shocked how many apartment buildings are unsafe with no fire precautions. That sucks.
Yeah, reposts are mildly infuriating
Call out for help to a neighbour or someone passing by.
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dont be silly, that's a complete waste of public resources
you call the non-emergency line to report a burglary, and when they arrive you ask them to grab your coffee before letting them in, and then you tell them nvm
So you'll get your coffee in 3-6 business days
"File an online report.
If there was any signs of damage or forced entry a member will attend"
I called one of the non-emergency numbers (not the general 311 number but an actual number my county has for reporting traffic violations that are not a danger to anyone) for like fifty cars parked on the street (with no parking at any time) leading to the highway.
This was like at like 10 in the morning and they didn't send someone out to check (I had a request number that I could look up) for like 15 hours.
Obviously they were all gone 15 hours later, what's that department even for then? Only static issues that never move or change?
Or those that happen reliably I guess, like 311 for your loud and drunk neighbor at 2 am every night like clockwork.
There's a decent chance the cops will shoot the coffee and/or the caller.
Only if they take their coffee black.
Except that black coffee had a lot of white granulated substance hiding at the bottom.
and your dog
Or go full Mission Impossible out the window. You have to make the music sounds while you do it to make it real. And do a couple of rolls on the front lawn.
Only option
Or they could put on the actual soundtrack at a very loud decibel.
Yeah, that seems like a good way to cry wolf.
HELP!!! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!! oh hey, can you pick up that drink for me.
Personally, I would bust thru the screen and yell “Oh yeaa!” like the kool-aid man and grab my food, but that's me...
Or use another exit 🤯
My home doesn’t have one unless I crawl out a window.
Well, just treat it as fire-emergency training.
Maybe there is no other exit. When I lived in an apartment, I only had the one door.
Or..... Or....and hear me out here..... Delivery drivers could just not put things directly in front of a screen door that opens outward?
My place only has one door.
And a driver could still find a spot to put it where the door won’t knock it over when opened.
I mean fair. But to use my back door on the off chance this happens would add 45 seconds to my day. Literally my first thought "back door "
This is also the sub mildlyinfuriating. This qualifies as mild infuriation.
Not everyone has a back door…
My old condo only had 1 entrance and exit 🤯
He/she will have to share the food with the neighbour
As a PT driver, I always check which way the door opens and act accordingly. As someone who orders food, this has happened to me and it makes me BONKERS.
I just can’t fathom a situation where you have to even check. Just don’t put that shit within immediate swing of the door and you’ll never have to even think about it.
People will still complain. So I go extra out of my way. I am not getting customer complaints over someone else’s bad day 🤷🏼♀️ there are literal door dash scams on the regular for people to try and get their meals for free. So I cover my ass to cover my bills.
I have a table and a chair literally right next to my front door. I put on the instructions to leave it on the table. Yet people still put it at the floor of the door it is the worst. I’m glad someone is checking.
I LOVE a good table next to the door! I wish my doorway had the space. Who wants ground food?!
my previous roommate used to order food all the time. he put "don't knock" on the orders, but they wouldn't always listen... some lady seemed to think that meant "knock softly". but the reason he said that is because when someone knocks, someone is going to go get the door whether it's him or not... and half the time there was just a drink in front of the door, and whoever was getting the door didn't think to check for food/drinks so it would just spill. real fun.
You are already 10x smarter than the average gig economy worker.
Seriously I’m terrified that we even allow most of them to drive
This was obvi done on purpose
The door literally opens the other way. You wouldn't have the piston on the open side.
This will soon become a secondary subscription service called “meal movers.” You call them when Door Dash traps you in your home like this. Lots of Dashers will also be Meal Movers so the same dude who did this just comes back to your house and moves it.
Edit: Thanks for the awards!!!
Edit 2: Thanks for the GOLD and Platinum!!!!
And then you have to pay the movement fee and tips on it, and if the tip is not enough then he just moves the food to a different inconvenient place
eats the whole bag of food while eying you through the window
Actually, it's:
Be dasher and meal mover.
Accept delivery order, deliver.
Intentionally place food in "trapped" location.
Accept meal mover order, move order to new, "trapped" location.
Repeat until they cancel, and you eat the food in front of them.
Also the tips are no refundable
🤣🤣
Maybe then everybody will start making their own food as they should
You might be getting hate but ya these delivery services need to be sued because they are a scam.
It costs $50 to get a value meal from a fast food place half a mile away...
It's been rough but figuring out how to use the air fryer has been much better for my health and happiness.
This forgets people who are disabled & can’t make their food or go pick it up.
Also, not everyone has the same 24 hours in the day; Poorer people have less free time away from work & commuting, so don’t said have time or energy to cook but still want a nice meal. Even many middle class people, students, & so on may not always have time & energy to cook all of their meals.
Delivery services have been a godsend after having a baby.
And also people that value their free time? The few extra dollars is easily worth it for not having to deal with the hassles of cooking or driving
Sometimes people just can't on any particular day. Plus, it's giving someone a job. I wouldn't be so harsh
Only way I was able to get food and groceries after having my hip replaced and was unable to drive until cleared by surgeon. For 6 weeks the folks that do this job kept me fed, medicated & supplied with bandages. Pretty difficult to cook while supporting yourself on a walker. I somehow was blessed with not one delivery error.
You're right, amputees, paraplegic, and mentally ill ppl should just pull themselves up by their boot straps and just dO iT tHeMsElVeS...
We have been for years now. And have services available that aren't door dash to deliver food
Fuck your edits
One reason why I'm glad Reddit is getting rid of awards.
lol'd IRL. I needed this
Or u just go out the back door🤔
This sounds like a Tim and Eric bit.
I’m a mail carrier and I think about this whenever I deliver a package, I try to put it out of the way of the door opening and in a spot that isn’t easily visible from the road or sidewalk if possible. It only takes a half a second to think about and I take pride in my work and I hope some of my customers notice and appreciate it.
Thank you!!! At least someone else thinks like me!
Do you not have a back door?
Or a window?
Pretty sure that screen door screen can be removed as well.
That’s what we ended up doing.
Maybe come Christmas time chimney access maybe best
I can think of like 4 other solutions that would have been much faster and easier but ok lmao
But it’s still ridiculous that they made you MacGuyver your way into getting your food without spilling your drink.
Lol really? Not climb out a window. No back or side door. Seems like madness to remove the sd
Why not just remove your door right? The screws are there for a reason /s
The problem is the fact that this person has to even have a single thought about how to open the door or to even be inconvenienced by this issue having paid good money for delivery.
Do you think having to remove a screen off a door to avoid spilling a drink ISN’T mildly infuriating? Man, some people on here hate delivery companies so much that anyone who uses them and then has the audacity to complain about bad service is somehow both wrong and an idiot. It’s crazy. “Simply climb out a window or remove a part of your door” is a ridiculous expectation for someone who just wanted food delivered in a normal way.
Lmao. imagine paying $30 for a breakfast burrito and an iced latte delivered and you have to clamber out of your window to get it.
Yeah she should have to climb out the window to get her drink.. ridiculous and no tip!
To the wall, till sweat drips down. Wait
I mean if you are slightly old or overweight or something I could see it being an absolute bitch to climb through a window for your food.
Not even like elderly old. I could see some 50 year old being like well fuck.
I'll spell it out for you. Having to walk around your house to get food on your front doorstep is mildly infuriating.
It's still mildly infuriating.
Did you forget about apartments
Would it not still be mildly infuriating to have to put shoes on and walk all the way around the house to get the food?
Holy shit, do this many people really not get that it's absolutely infuriating that delivery drivers do this and don't even consider "oh, someone has to open the door to get this"?
This has happened to me before too, and no. I don’t have a back door. I live in an apartment, like lots of people 🤷🏻♀️
Irrelevant comment. This incompetence should never happen in the first place.
Edit: remember, this is r/mildlyinfuriating. Comments that try to solve the problem of the post or say “it’s not a big deal” is the exact opposite purpose of this sub. It’s not supposed to be a big deal! That’s why we sympathize with the OP, laugh, and move on. Good day!
Nope.
I'm confident you were forced to tip them in advance of receiving your order?
This is exactly the level of incompetency that warrants a $0.00 tip. If possible, go back into the app and remove the tip.
This honestly seems intentional to me rather than out of incompetence. If both the drink and food were set on the ground I’d say it was incompetence, but putting the drink on the step above the food seems like it was on purpose.
Never attribute to make what can be attributed to incompetence
I don’t usually attribute things to make
You’re right, and I’m not saying it was for sure intentional, but just my gut feeling. I have seen comments on the DoorDash Reddit from drivers saying they do this when someone doesn’t tip so it is definitely in the realm of possibility.
It almost absolutely was. There's subreddits for the different food delivery apps and apparently drivers will do this if they got a crappy tip. I don't condone ot, just passing along info.
I'll die on this hill: people who do this are absolute utter assholes who shouldn't be allowed to deliver anything ever again.
We literally have a table with a sign that says “Please leave deliveries here” that they had to walk past to leave the food where they did. 🤣
What i've learned from humanity is that most people don't fucking read anything 🤷♀️
A place I worked at opened at 9am each day. But very occasionally we had to open at 10am, this was if there was a delivery overnight and it was against health and safety to let customers in (charity store, delivery driver bringing furniture he'd agreed to collect late at night and so nobody was in the store until 9am).
We would put a big sign on the door that said "Open at 10am"
Routinely people would be banging on the door and shaking it, and then trying to shout at us to let them in, while looking AROUND the sign. I'd end up walking up to the door, and having to hold them back while pointing at the sign and saying they can't get in for another half an hour. They would then complain it wasn't clear enough.
Yeah, sounds like people unfortunately
I second everything you said. A thousand separate signs telling you what the sale in the store is? Hmmm, I think I'll ask anyway
They pay the least amount of attention to their surroundings as possible
I once worked in a ice cream shop for a summer. There were three occasions that the power went out and all the ice cream in the main freezer melted in a puddle. That left us with just the big three in the back up freezer: vanilla chocolate and strawberry. We would put large signs on the door and the freezer that said - freezer broken limited flavors, and then…
“Where’s all the ice cream???” “Are you closed?” “Cookies and cream double scoop with sprinkles”
Some people literally do not read the words that cross their field of view and it baffles me.
I’ve concluded that most of the drivers don’t know how to read or else they would know where to put my orders since it’s in the instructions in the app. 90% of the time, it’s in front of my outward opening door. I order DoorDash way less now.
A decent number of dashers in my area legitimately don't speak english, so putting out signs may not work
IK this is gonna blow your mind but this is called the “no tip special”
Not always. Sometimes people are just dense and quickly deliver it and move on, without thinking.
There are three types of assholes: people who actively put themselves first, people who just like the thought of inconveniencing others, and people who simply cannot comprehend that others exist/have needs and wants.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to ignorance.
Why do so many comments here assume that everyone has a back door? My last townhouse only had the one front entrance and no back yard (neighbours backed on to our unit). This happened to me there more than once, and I always tip $3 on every order. People just don't take the time to think and notice that screen doors open outwards (or that some people actually might not have a back door).
Keep trying to tell people. Stop with all those food delivery apps. It’s just all bad. From the tipping, to the food stealing, and now setting food directly in front of doors to be knocked over. Smh
Also you have to give your home address to un-vetted strangers who are willing to convert car depreciation into pennies.
Lot of dangerous idiots working these “jobs”
I swear they do this shit on purpose.
Thanks to whoever reported me to the Reddit care team… but I truly am just mildly infuriated, not actively suicidal. Let’s save those reports for folks who really need them, please.
The delivery guy must have read this thread and done that
Hahaha That's almost funny though. It's just a bot response so not taking away resource from others. They must've thought you were really really really mad!
Maybe, just maybe, if you open the door really fast and with enough force, you may send the drink flying and save the food 🤷♀️ but also not so fast and forceful that you send the door flying. This is def a no win situation but with the right calculations you may get something out of it. I'm sorry, dick move for sure.
My thoughts exactly! Use enough force to open the door really hard and yeet the cup past the food bag. You lose the drink, but at least you save the food!
Wrong. You want to open door with superman strength, throwing the drink into an orbit around the world, then quickly run outside and catch it when it returns
Still fucking stupid of the delivery person
Leave a .5 star review if through an app
I’d say you can def squeeze by if you open the door slowly, the hinge is on the left. Or just go out the back door and get it.
Surprised I had to scroll so far to see this. You can definitely squeeze through.
Had this happen to me a few times too, Why does this happen so often? I thought it would b common sense?
You can't convince me this isn't on purpose. If you hate dashing, stop fucking dashing. Or at least don't be a prick to the people who are, in part, paying you.
The Schrödinger meal
Honestly, that would affect the tip.
I also have this same issue sometimes. Our front door has two doors. The main, and the glass door. If you know how doors work, they both can't open the same direction. The main door opens into the home, while the glass one opens out. Often times get food delivered right in front of the door, and it pisses me off. We have a bench to the side of the door, and I put instructions to leave the food bag there, instead of in front of the door. Most of the time it's fine, but some don't read the instructions. If I catch them quick enough, I tell them to move it and ask them if they know how doors work, and "did you read the note I left?". They're like, "oh sorry!"
A puzzle worth solving
Just crawl out the window
Burgerland obesity would like a word with you.
Your mission, if you choose to accept it
The Schrödinger Drink lmao
This happens to me all the time! I recently put a little table on my porch and that helped.
This was a dick move
Wait til winter arrives and the drink becomes frozen. Then it won’t spill
unfortunate but can’t you go out your back door and walk around and get it?
You mean to say that your home only has one entrance….
I have never and will never do shit like this. if there’s a table or any kind of furniture, it goes there. if there’s not then I find the second safest place, not in front of the door/screen door.
ppl saying to go thru the back door are such geniuses 🤩
the delivery guy is either stupid or a dickhead
Mine do that too. I reported it as damaged full items not able to be eaten for a full refund and reverse the tip.
Eat what I can lol.
Schrodinger’s shake: the drink is currently both spilled and not spilled at the same time
Go out the back door and go get it.
Go for it. I believe in you.
The drink is so close to the hinge that you have room to squirm out.
Use the window
Man, as a delivery driver some customers can be so ungrateful. You act like you don't have a window you can crawl out of to get your food smdh 🙄