Monday, March 10, 2025

The Sonic I picked up from was at the truck stop my customer parked his semi at! Ever had a weird order like this? How did you deal with it?

 

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The Sonic I picked up from was at the truck stop my customer parked his semi at! Ever had a weird order like this? How did you deal with it?

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I had a weird order - I picked up from a Sonic attached to a truck stop that my customer Mike had his semi parked at.

He didn't realize he could just go inside to order from Sonic himself, so when I arrived and met him, he said he should've just gone and ordered inside, so he doesn't want the delivered breakfast burrito anymore, he'll pick it up as carryout, so to not worry about it, and I can keep it, the $10 tip, and eat it, and that it wasn't my fault.

Has something similar ever happened to you? How did you deal with it?

As long as this doesn't lead to any kind of trouble with Doordash later, I think we'll be golden. What are the chances that trouble will happen later due to this?

Edit: The order is now held for review, so I'll be sure to find out by around 6:30 PM Central tomorrow what the outcome is. What all do they do during the review; how do they review it? And if they assume a violation has occurred, is a deactivation guaranteed or would it just be a contract violation? Or what else would happen?

 

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[–]The_TroyminatorDash 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴! 60 points  

Or they didn’t want to get dressed and it was cheaper than room service.

[–]jonzilla5000 21 points  

Getting dressed and leaving your room is a major burden when you've had a big day and are camping out in your house clothes.

[–]Starfire2313wanna carpool? 4 points  

There’s other reasons too. I can think of 2-3 other fairly legit reasons not to want to leave the hotel room 😂

[–]OtherwiseAlbatross14 7 points  

Like walking across the street to McDonald's and someone snitched on you to the FBI after you left a few bullets with words on them in New York?

[–]Irohuro 5 points  

I ordered DoorDash delivery from a restaurant attached to my apartment building once because I was really sick and didn’t have the energy to make the trip and didn’t wanna risk spreading what I had

[–]ArtisticDegree3915 3 points  

Or could have a delivery only coupon.

[–]spicybright 11 points  

And people say being too fucked up on drugs to leave the room is bad!

[–]bananatanan 5 points  

Not quite the same, but I delivered wings from a restaurant in the same parking lot as the hotel.

[–]Sithstress1 3 points  

Same, except mine was Ted’s. I didn’t even get back into my car after I picked it up, I just walked across the parking lot to the hotel 😂.

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[–]Frankthefitter44 10 points  

So nice you said it twice

[–]The_TroyminatorDash 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴! 3 points  

I hate this app sometimes.

[–][deleted] 1 point  

Or a ghost kitchen

[–]bronk3310 19 points  

His kid was getting punished and definitely didn’t eat dinner lol

[–]ashleiponder 7 points  

That's exactly it 🤣 I've left already paid for candy, chips, and other things on gas station counters when mine starts asking for more and starts to throw a fit. He's five. I get gas just about once a week. Sometimes he's with me. Sometimes he's not, but when he is he's able to go in and get a treat. He can pick out pretty much whatever he wants. At that age it sometimes turns into wanting two things or three things. He's allowed to get ONE thing. That doesn't go over so well with him sometimes, so sometimes he gets no things. Then we get in the car and I feel horrible because I said no and his feelings are hurt, but it's good for him in the long run.

[–]TheGr8KAN 2 points  

Nice work!

[–]MathematicianRoyal40 10 points  

I had the same thing happen but an apartment complex, dude met me in his parking lot 😂 prob walked half the distance to the restaurant

[–]jonzilla5000 3 points  

Picked up Chinese from a restaurant only to find the delivery was half a block down on the same sidewalk - and he met me outside. I'm guessing he was lonely and wanted to find a friend.

[–]Efficient_Record7244 24 points  

I got in late to a hotel once and looked on DoorDash for something. Saw Wendy’s and decided on it. After I placed the order I saw it was right next door. I opened my blinds and the place was literally right there. That was embarrassing.

[–]EmperorMrKitty 3 points  

Bro exact same. $45 for two meals and it was across the damn street. Didn’t realize till we left for the airport the next morning. Wendy’s and DD have some sort of cursed scheme going I swear.

[–]Invisible_Target 5 points  

If you’re gonna leave candy in random spots, you can’t be mad when someone takes it. That sounds stupid at

[–]johnmichael0703 3 points  

Yeah I don't fully disagree. Any other driver than me would have probably assumed it was a tip ( and I wouldn't assume they were wrong or being malicious)

[–]PandaWeird8666 2 points  

I came across the same thing at an apartment. I left it as you did.

[–][deleted] 4 points  

It’ll be fresher

[–]ItchyPast1 9 points  

I’m a woman & have delivered to truckers parked at random spots like the Wal-mart parking lot a couple times. Kinda weird, but they were fine & tipped well.

[–]Loud_Cloud92 6 points  

I understand feeling unsafe and making the choice to unasign the order but is it necessary to let them know all that? They don't know if a man or woman is going to pick up their order! Not everyone on this earth needs to cater to how you feel and your personal opinions. I've heard truckers do this because they can't leave their rig for whatever reason and they can't park everywhere.

[–]jonzilla5000 2 points  

She's just letting him know why she cancelled it, seems like a considerate and reasonable thing to do.

[–]Loud_Cloud92 2 points  

She isn't just letting them know why she is cancelling. She is trying to educate them and tell them "it's VERY unsafe and uncomfortable for females to take a delivery like this." Like I said before, the customer doesn't get to choose if a male or female picks up their order. Just cancel and move on!

[–]EmperorMrKitty 1 point  

Honestly it’s a good thing to hear from women that stuff like this makes them uncomfortable. So much stuff never even crosses my mind as a dude. Would rather not put anyone in that situation and you don’t know till a random lady vents.

[–][deleted] 8 points  

I’m a woman, I’ve delivered to semis in truck stops without thinking a thing about it. Maybe I should. Nothing weird ever happened

[–]ForeverOrdinary5059 6 points  

Why deliver to anyone's house? What if they kidnap you or worse?

[–]Classic_Ad3987 3 points  

Where I used to work we couldn't leave the building until our shift ended, couldn't even go to our car on break. We would order lunch from the sub shop next door and let them know, yes we are next door and yes we need delivery. The delivery guy would look so confused each time we met him at the door.

[–]Surprise_Beautiful 4 points  

He was trolling...he was hoping he would get a woman that he could proposition. Happens to me on IC with men all the time. They want the meet the customer option.

[–]Xatamos 3 points  

Was probably hoping for a hot hooker to show up and then saw you......lol jk

[–]ashleiponder 3 points  

I'm wondering if he did since it's now under review. Something HAD to have been said.

[–]Solomon_Inked_God 1 point  

That’s what I’m thinking.

[–][deleted] 2 points  

Probably reported it missing so he could try to get his money back and you'll have to explain this and hope dd takes that , your account won't be taken down but you could get a violation and is so many of there's occur then you get deactivated

[–]ashleiponder 1 point  

Not necessarily. I've had a CV not show up until the next day even after dashing for several hours after the order I know it came from was delivered.

[–]Solomon_Inked_God 1 point  

You’re really gullible. Him calling you bro and fist bumping you means absolutely nothing.

[–]Live_Culture8393 1 point  

Dang. I wonder what he said then

[–]Live_Culture8393 1 point  

Yep, to DD

[–]Sober-Ma2018 1 point  

Weird

[–]After-Dream-7775 1 point  

AHAHAHA he was looking for that LOT LIZARD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–]Beginning_Hyena_6404 1 point  

Maybe he was actually wanting to check you out and get a person to keep him company but didn’t go thru with it for some reason ? Seems to weird! Lol always a cynic in the crowd huh 😊

[–]ashleiponder 1 point  

He had to have said something to DD for it to be under review. It will probably be fine on your end if he was honest. If he hadn't contacted them it would have gone through as a normal completed delivery. Wonder if he just didn't want to tell you that he wanted to cancel it to your face just to be nice and thought that you wouldn't be in trouble if he tried to cancel it afterwards somehow. I don't know how he could have done that other than saying it wasn't delivered or it was the wrong order or something. Maybe it was a stolen card he was trying or something. I could absolutely be wrong, but it's odd that the delivery ended like that and now it's under review.

[–]ashleiponder 1 point  

It's weird that that one order showed up as in review though. Something had to have been said about it or maybe even past orders to cause some orders to go under review. They usually don't do that for no reason.

[–]jangsta201 1 point  

most likely a contract violation. It'll go away after 100 deliveries.

[–]Conscious-Isopod-393 1 point  

Well I'm invested in your story now Please post your outcome

[–]scotto_93631 1 point  

Maybe he was smashing a lot lizard?

[–]pf_dynamite 1 point  

I had one like that a few months ago. The dash was a Dollar General shopping task for like 10 things and if I remember, it was $10-$15 and it was only going 4 miles or so. And it was all food items too. Get to the drop-off: it's semi truck parked in a Wal-Mart parking lot. So maybe the guy had a gift card, but I just thought what a waste of money

[–]TheRealBlueJade 0 points  

I find this somewhat concerning. It doesn't make sense. I'm concerned they were looking for a victim, and you didn't match what they were looking for.

Hopefully, I am completely wrong. I feel this person should be watched/tracked and investigated.

[–]Equivalent-Tomato985 0 points  

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Yes, very awkward. He was in Semi, I had my spouse with me thank goodness. He was parked in the dark. Very uncomfortable situation

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