She Had A Harrowing Experience With A Delivery Driver Who Refused To Leave Her House One Night After She Ordered Groceries
During the pandemic, a lot of people started ordering food from the comfort of home. This woman in her 30s was no different.
At the time, she lived alone, didn’t have a car, and there weren’t any stores nearby.
One night, she got back from work at 9 p.m. and didn’t have any food in the house. Naturally, she decided to order groceries through a delivery service. Because of social distancing rules, she selected for the delivery to be left at the door.
Later, there was a knock at her door.
“I saw a tall, skinny guy standing right by the door. I shouted through the mailbox slot to leave the groceries at the door and back up. He said no and that he had to hand it to me as the order had alcohol in it,” she said.
But she hadn’t ordered any alcohol. So, she told him that he had the wrong order. However, he insisted that it was correct.
“I told him sternly to put it on the floor and back up. Again, he refused. Stupidly (I was tired), I opened the door a crack and told him to do it due to COVID-19 rules, and he stepped towards the door and put his hand on the handle. I pulled it shut and shouted to leave it, or I was reporting him,” she continued.
Finally, he put her groceries down and stepped away from the door. Once again, speaking through the mailbox slot, she asked him to back up further. At first, he obeyed her request, but not for long.
When she opened the door once more, he again stepped closer.
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“I always remember the chill down my spine when he said, ‘Pretty, very pretty,’ in a low monotone,” she shared.
Even worse, when she opened the door, she noticed that he had his phone out, pointed right at her. She asked him what he was doing, and he claimed that he had to take a picture of the delivered order.
But she accurately explained how odd and creepy it was that he never pointed his phone down toward the bag on the ground.
Then, she grabbed her delivery bag, slammed the door, and locked it. She peeked outside through her curtains at the window and watched the man pacing back and forth at the door. It was as if he was debating on what to do. He knocked on the door, and she refused to open it.
When he still hadn’t left, she called her best friend for advice. Her friend told her not to open the door and to report the man. So, she once again shouted through the mailbox slot for him to leave. But he didn’t.
By this point, her dog, normally very sweet, picked up on the situation and the owner’s anxiety and began barking at the door.
At last, the man turned away from the door and walked to his car, which was parked across the street from her house.
However, he didn’t drive away. For over 10 minutes, he sat in his car. At first, she thought he was in the process of selecting another delivery order to do.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case. She received a message on the delivery service app from the man saying that he’d forgotten to give her a bag that was part of her grocery order, and he asked her to come out to his car to get it.
She checked her delivery that was already in the house, and nothing was missing. She messaged him back to say that the bag wasn’t hers.
But he was insistent that it was a part of her order. He told her that he couldn’t leave until she picked up the bag from his car. She said that he was “practically begging” her to come outside. He also told her it wouldn’t take long and suggested that she could just grab the bag from the passenger side of the car.
At this, she became really angry. She told him that she’d heard his creepy comments when he’d been dropping off her order, that she knew he was taking a picture of her on his phone, not the delivery order, and that she was going to call the police. Still, he persisted.
“The entire time I was on the phone with the police, he was still messaging me, even saying, ‘The police won’t come. Pick up the order, and I’ll leave. Why are you making it hard?'” she explained.
While on the phone with the police, she was advised to stay inside with the doors locked, and she was told that an officer should be at her house in 20 minutes. The whole time, her dog continued barking and going crazy.
Not long after her call to the police, her neighbor’s husband texted to say that he heard a lot of noise and wanted to know if she was okay. She told him the whole story, and suddenly, he ran out of his house towards the delivery driver’s car.
He then shouted at the delivery driver that he knew he was a predator and he needed to go away before he got beat up. This must have been intimidating for the delivery driver, considering that her neighbor’s husband was 6’4 and very broad.
This apparently scared the delivery driver into finally leaving. He sped away, thankfully. Her neighbors both came over to her house and made tea while they waited for the police to arrive.
She made a police report, as well as reported the delivery driver to the delivery service. The police, unfortunately, never followed up with her after her report, and all she received from the delivery service was a generic apology.
Shortly after this experience, she got a car and didn’t use the delivery service again until her boyfriend moved in with her.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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