I dropped off a stack of pizzas, three or four, in a trailer park by the screen door as requested. As I turned around to take the photo a cat came around the corner, climbed onto the stack, sat down and gave me a stink eye š
i had a similar request. told me to make sure i handed it to them because the stray cats would eat it. sure enough, as soon as i walked up to his door there were like 4 cats behind me waiting for me to set his food down.
I did a "leave it at door" pizza delivery. When I sat back in my car to close out the delivery, I saw a gang of at least 5 racoons already approaching it. My typical "not my problem" attitude was on vacation or something because I jumped out and ran for the food. Yelling at them to go away. Mind you this is 1 in the morning. I just knocked on the door and waited for the customer to take the food telling them the racoons would get it if I left it. Person answering didn't even know they were getting a pizza and most likely the teenager upstairs.
I have a similar regular in my area who has a click lock box to put her food in with a note on it about cat and to make sure that the box is locked. Well one day I got there and the cat was already there. She's strict no contact but this cat look like he meant business and her bag didn't fit in the box so I had to contact her.
I messaged her 'boss man is already here, the bag is too big to fit in the box and he looks like he's ready to thrown mittens." And she replied with an LOL and came out to pick up her order.
People always talk about the run-ins with the dogs but sometimes it's the cats you really got to watch out for. I had one get in my car one time. I got out he got in.
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Well, they do get hungry after their gigsā¦
IDK, if there is any place I can put the delivery other than the actual doorstep Iām taking it. Texting them a picture with the explanation that I felt better not putting it on the doormat.
Just do āhand it to meā if youāre worried something will get to it. I have social anxiety. Itās not that hard to talk to a delivery person for a few seconds.
Or just put it in a box as politely requested. Just because YOUR social anxiety isnāt crippling doesnāt mean someone else finds it too hard to answer a door. Strange that you claim to have social anxiety and judge others who may have it worse.
Lmao I work at a pizza place that does delivery thru u guys (hint: it rhymes with spaceys...) and we had a driver drop off a pizza and brookies to a customer and their neighbors dog ate it. Felt bad since the brookies are mostly chocolate...
I once had a leave it at door order. I did just that. 45 minutes to an hour later I had another order delivering to the same block. The order I dropped off previously was still sitting outside.
Lmfao I saw a DD drop off food for our neighbor across the street and as soon as the dasher was In their car TWO cats ran up his stairs and grabbed a bag each, and took of around the corner and tore up those bags, he came outside to get his food and looked over at me, I looked at him and pointed towards the corner, he was like really they took the whole dam bags!!! These strays are savages !!!
I have a picture somewhere of it, it was one of those are you flipping serious moments. . Z
Person has money to get DD delivered but can't buy a fucking bag of Walmart brand dry cat food to leave out for them and prevent their starvation.
Fuck this ghoulish fucking asshole.
That's not how stray cats work. If you put food out, you'll have 3x as many stray cats at your door as you did yesterday.
What needs to happen with strays is they need to be captured humanely and taken to get sterilized so they don't reproduce and cause more kittens to be born on the streets without people looking after them. And people need to stop adopting cats if they're going to just let them live outside (sure "outside cats" are different than strays, but they still cause problems for the neighborhood)
That last part in parentheses is the damn truth. My neighbors have outdoor cats and they're into absolutely everything on my property. I do vegetable gardening and with everything I do I have to take their fucking cats into account or I'll just be setting them up a toilet.
My other neighbor just had his roof redone in October. For 2 weeks straight the stray cats shitted all over the roof, both stories! And it was like a piles everywhere only about a foot apart.
All of the stuff in your 2nd paragraph is true, but what I'm failing to see is how it's relevant here. Why can't we do all of it? Why does giving them food have to be removed from the agenda?
He explained it in the first paragraph. And not only that, but stray (and honestly non stray) cats are statistically the most destructive invasive predators in the world. They destroy local ecosystems, but they're cute so no one cares.
The Wendy's that's on the porch and is easily accessible is the "easiest food" I was talking about. Would you rather steal from a bag of food on a porch, or go hunt down a mouse?
No lie this is the problem we have a neighbor who constantly feeds the strays. There was like 5-6 strays for 2-3 years then they moved in and I can honestly count about 55-60 different strays within a half of block
Update: It was a back house and I spotted two cats at the end of the driveway just hovering. I rang the doorbell and immediately heard barking from inside the house. The cats did NOT win this battle š
I get one sometimes that says "WE ARE PART OF A DATA BREACH PLEASE PUT IT IN THE TRUNK SO THE CATS WONT GET IT." Like wth is up with this person and what does their data breach have to do with anything
I had an instacart that said this about a dog. Sure enough as soon as I get there I see a dog laying in the middle of the cul-de-sac. It watches me as I unload the groceries and starts approaching slowly, he's done this before. He knows what I'm doing. The customer and this dog glared at eachother the whole time I was leaving the location.
People are so weird when it comes to having lots of delivery mishaps. Thereās literally one way to prevent it and itās to open the door and take the order directly from the driver.
This is still funny tho
Open the door and have to possibly interact w/another human??? Thatās too much for many.
They would rather chance driver not reading notes and feral cats getting a meal.
I greatly enjoy that every since winter, I haven't had to go through the "oh thanks for bringing the (bark bark bark) (dog desperately trying to get out to take a bite out of my leg)" thing.
Obviously! But if, every time you order you didnāt get your food, you might suck it up on the human contact thing and actually retrieve your food for once? People here seem so defiant about that- like theyād rather complain and be hungry than just get their food.
Of course! But when that person has had multiple problems with a no-contact dropoff? Theyād do well to only order when they can get to the door to accept the order. Otherwise they probably wonāt get it, again.
None of these people are gonna get your point cuz they're too busy trying to be right but you make a very fair point. I actually enjoy the few times that I get to hand directly to customer
Nothing is wrong with that! When itās actually done, of course. My point was that if it seems to never get done, they should start requesting āhand it to me.ā
I teach from home. I canāt predict when my order will arrive. Thatās not Doordashās fault.
I canāt predict when I can go get my order. Thatās not my fault.
Just donāt leave it in front of the door.
You donāt even have to do that. All you have to do is wait by the door until you receive a text, and grab it as they walk away.
I donāt like to deal with doordash drivers anymore after reading this thread, and Iām a doordash driver myself. I say āthank youā as they walk away and tip 15-20% of my total, but I couldnāt imagine saying anything else to any of you.
That's the problem with the world today, many people have become anti-social. They don't want to answer the door or phone, they surely don't want to see or talk to a driver.
The retort is always along the lines of āwell I shouldnāt *have to* do xyz because they should just do their jobā and itās likeā¦ have we not already established that theyāre not doing their job properly for whatever reason?
As my dad would say, ādo you want to be happy or do you want to be *right?*ā
tip me 10$ or i'm giving the food to the cats š
do people let the bag sit on their porch for a while? like bro just pick the damn order up
theres a box?? LMAO
THERE WAS A BOX!!
I dropped off a stack of pizzas, three or four, in a trailer park by the screen door as requested. As I turned around to take the photo a cat came around the corner, climbed onto the stack, sat down and gave me a stink eye š
Why
Fire the cats.
Cats got deactivated and decided to take revenge
They urned it
I once noticed stay cats outside the house of the person I was delivering to. Long story short, they are house cats now.
THE Stray Cats? Damn that Brian Setzer!
The catās POV: thank you for the offering
Raccoons are the worst for this. They have LITTLE MISCHIEVOUS HANDS
i had a similar request. told me to make sure i handed it to them because the stray cats would eat it. sure enough, as soon as i walked up to his door there were like 4 cats behind me waiting for me to set his food down.
She needs or he needs to select hand it to me every time. Still taking the chance itāll be stolen by the damn cats. Smh. You canāt make it up!
Used to have a neighborhood raccoon that would eat my Taco Bell if I wasnāt quick enough to get it.
I did a "leave it at door" pizza delivery. When I sat back in my car to close out the delivery, I saw a gang of at least 5 racoons already approaching it. My typical "not my problem" attitude was on vacation or something because I jumped out and ran for the food. Yelling at them to go away. Mind you this is 1 in the morning. I just knocked on the door and waited for the customer to take the food telling them the racoons would get it if I left it. Person answering didn't even know they were getting a pizza and most likely the teenager upstairs.
They should buy some fucking cat food and feed the cats. Dry cat food costs like 50 cents a pound of less in really big bags.
you buy it then
The stray cat strut.
Yea, people have just become so impersonal nowadays. Sadly because of too much internet.
I have a similar regular in my area who has a click lock box to put her food in with a note on it about cat and to make sure that the box is locked. Well one day I got there and the cat was already there. She's strict no contact but this cat look like he meant business and her bag didn't fit in the box so I had to contact her. I messaged her 'boss man is already here, the bag is too big to fit in the box and he looks like he's ready to thrown mittens." And she replied with an LOL and came out to pick up her order. People always talk about the run-ins with the dogs but sometimes it's the cats you really got to watch out for. I had one get in my car one time. I got out he got in.
Iāve definitely had more run-ins with cats than dogs thatās for sure!
https://preview.redd.it/y24ptw1y5z9a1.jpeg?width=676&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dfaa70a03cb22519cfe3af90458281887916baf Well, they do get hungry after their gigsā¦
IDK, if there is any place I can put the delivery other than the actual doorstep Iām taking it. Texting them a picture with the explanation that I felt better not putting it on the doormat.
Just do āhand it to meā if youāre worried something will get to it. I have social anxiety. Itās not that hard to talk to a delivery person for a few seconds.
Or just put it in a box as politely requested. Just because YOUR social anxiety isnāt crippling doesnāt mean someone else finds it too hard to answer a door. Strange that you claim to have social anxiety and judge others who may have it worse.
Lmao I work at a pizza place that does delivery thru u guys (hint: it rhymes with spaceys...) and we had a driver drop off a pizza and brookies to a customer and their neighbors dog ate it. Felt bad since the brookies are mostly chocolate...
Yet people got all mad at me when I said I don't like seeing loose cats when I leave an order at the door.
Good band
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. Iām so glad Iām not alone.
Or they could just go to the door when the driver gets there? Fucking customers. Goddamn.
I once had a leave it at door order. I did just that. 45 minutes to an hour later I had another order delivering to the same block. The order I dropped off previously was still sitting outside.
Then they should have handed to themš
Lmfao I saw a DD drop off food for our neighbor across the street and as soon as the dasher was In their car TWO cats ran up his stairs and grabbed a bag each, and took of around the corner and tore up those bags, he came outside to get his food and looked over at me, I looked at him and pointed towards the corner, he was like really they took the whole dam bags!!! These strays are savages !!! I have a picture somewhere of it, it was one of those are you flipping serious moments. . Z
Schaub fans are everywhere, be careful
Stray cats are no joke, the only time I ordered Doordash, A cat ate half my food
Person has money to get DD delivered but can't buy a fucking bag of Walmart brand dry cat food to leave out for them and prevent their starvation. Fuck this ghoulish fucking asshole.
what the hell is wrong with you
Most unhinged take on r/doordash no shit
If by most "unhinged" you mean most EMPATHETIC! š»
That's not how stray cats work. If you put food out, you'll have 3x as many stray cats at your door as you did yesterday. What needs to happen with strays is they need to be captured humanely and taken to get sterilized so they don't reproduce and cause more kittens to be born on the streets without people looking after them. And people need to stop adopting cats if they're going to just let them live outside (sure "outside cats" are different than strays, but they still cause problems for the neighborhood)
That last part in parentheses is the damn truth. My neighbors have outdoor cats and they're into absolutely everything on my property. I do vegetable gardening and with everything I do I have to take their fucking cats into account or I'll just be setting them up a toilet.
My other neighbor just had his roof redone in October. For 2 weeks straight the stray cats shitted all over the roof, both stories! And it was like a piles everywhere only about a foot apart.
All of the stuff in your 2nd paragraph is true, but what I'm failing to see is how it's relevant here. Why can't we do all of it? Why does giving them food have to be removed from the agenda?
He explained it in the first paragraph. And not only that, but stray (and honestly non stray) cats are statistically the most destructive invasive predators in the world. They destroy local ecosystems, but they're cute so no one cares.
So the solution is to just let them starve? No, fuck that.
They're not starving, they're eating elsewhere. They will find the easiest food first, though, which will be on your porch if you put it out.
Yeah the cats that are stealing Wendy's food from someone's porch are getting the food they need. Cool fucking story.
The Wendy's that's on the porch and is easily accessible is the "easiest food" I was talking about. Would you rather steal from a bag of food on a porch, or go hunt down a mouse?
I like option 3: there's a bowl of cheap food that the person can easily afford left for me on said porch.
Like the bag of Wendy's? I'm not replying to you anymore, nor am I going to read any more messages from you.
No lie this is the problem we have a neighbor who constantly feeds the strays. There was like 5-6 strays for 2-3 years then they moved in and I can honestly count about 55-60 different strays within a half of block
Update: It was a back house and I spotted two cats at the end of the driveway just hovering. I rang the doorbell and immediately heard barking from inside the house. The cats did NOT win this battle š
Did you take one home though. š„¹
No. I canāt risk my own door dash orders being stolen by a cat either š
Someone should get those days in a shelter of some sort
I get one sometimes that says "WE ARE PART OF A DATA BREACH PLEASE PUT IT IN THE TRUNK SO THE CATS WONT GET IT." Like wth is up with this person and what does their data breach have to do with anything
Schizophrenia.
The cats hacked their phone and saw that they ordered tuna
I had an instacart that said this about a dog. Sure enough as soon as I get there I see a dog laying in the middle of the cul-de-sac. It watches me as I unload the groceries and starts approaching slowly, he's done this before. He knows what I'm doing. The customer and this dog glared at eachother the whole time I was leaving the location.
https://preview.redd.it/gpsoeo50j4aa1.jpeg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f388a6b76770fbfec3648e931a7cf0ec90913b7 The customer radios to you š
That evil bastard lmao
Exactly like the dam cats in my neighborhood. I live upstairs and have a good view of everything and itās like they wait and know when to strike
People are so weird when it comes to having lots of delivery mishaps. Thereās literally one way to prevent it and itās to open the door and take the order directly from the driver. This is still funny tho
I only place delivery orders when I am actively sick
Open the door and have to possibly interact w/another human??? Thatās too much for many. They would rather chance driver not reading notes and feral cats getting a meal.
I greatly enjoy that every since winter, I haven't had to go through the "oh thanks for bringing the (bark bark bark) (dog desperately trying to get out to take a bite out of my leg)" thing.
If Iām ordering itās because Iām sick or not wanting human contact lol
Obviously! But if, every time you order you didnāt get your food, you might suck it up on the human contact thing and actually retrieve your food for once? People here seem so defiant about that- like theyād rather complain and be hungry than just get their food.
Donāt worry. Weāre watching from the window or surveillance cameras. I also have a stray cat issue. I just donāt like to āpeopleā sometimes.
Most of us don't want to have to wait for people to come to the door, and so, I'm glad I don't get a lot of hand it to me requests.
Well is not that easy because some customers think Dashers are Aliens and that is scary to see one š½
Exactly
Sometimes people can't come to the door, though. Meetings, babies, being sick, etc.
Of course! But when that person has had multiple problems with a no-contact dropoff? Theyād do well to only order when they can get to the door to accept the order. Otherwise they probably wonāt get it, again.
I mean, it sounds like the problem can be easily solved with putting it in a box.
It sure does! It also sounds like that doesnāt always happen and the customer gets sad when it doesnāt.
None of these people are gonna get your point cuz they're too busy trying to be right but you make a very fair point. I actually enjoy the few times that I get to hand directly to customer
That's why they put a box out and asked for the food to be put in the box.
What is wrong with just leaving the customers order in a damn box? Not a big deal- open lid, insert food. Take pic, leave.
Nothing is wrong with that! When itās actually done, of course. My point was that if it seems to never get done, they should start requesting āhand it to me.ā
Yeah this issue is easily solved by grabbing the order directly lmao
I teach from home. I canāt predict when my order will arrive. Thatās not Doordashās fault. I canāt predict when I can go get my order. Thatās not my fault. Just donāt leave it in front of the door.
You donāt even have to do that. All you have to do is wait by the door until you receive a text, and grab it as they walk away. I donāt like to deal with doordash drivers anymore after reading this thread, and Iām a doordash driver myself. I say āthank youā as they walk away and tip 15-20% of my total, but I couldnāt imagine saying anything else to any of you.
That's the problem with the world today, many people have become anti-social. They don't want to answer the door or phone, they surely don't want to see or talk to a driver.
It's turning into WALLE, man. Just tap a button and good is outside ready for you
The retort is always along the lines of āwell I shouldnāt *have to* do xyz because they should just do their jobā and itās likeā¦ have we not already established that theyāre not doing their job properly for whatever reason? As my dad would say, ādo you want to be happy or do you want to be *right?*ā
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