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Back in the late 80's, early 90's I delivered pizza for a local place.
99% of the customers were "Thanks for the pizza, here's your money..."
But I had several strange, and simply funny encounters.
Strange?
Obviously overweight woman in just her underwear.
Simply funny?
Guy answers door, wearing a T-shirt. ONLY a T-shirt.
Cloud of thick pot smoke roils out, I can see several people inside, all of whom are in various states of undress and all completely baked.
Guy invites me to join the party!
(I didn't, would have got canned.)
Any other ex-pizza delivery people here?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)That was 30 years ago. Our location didn't deliver.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)"Tease the pizza guy"
I saw naked women all the time. Sometimes they'd just straight up holler for me to come in and they'd be there buck naked and giggling and sometimes they'd be more coy about it like the time this one couple let me in with the pizza and wanted to pay by check and I said I need to have a driver's license number so they made a big production of looking around all over the apartment for her drivers license to write the number on the check. She was only wearing a 5-sizes too-big jumper with big arm holes and spaghetti strap shoulder straps so every time she bent over to look at something the whole front just drooped down and she had nothing else on so she might as well have been naked. Her husband was going all over the apt saying dumb stuff like "Hmmmm, where did we put that license? did you look here honey? and she'd go there and bend over some more and look. This went on for like 10 minutes but I didn't mind. She finally found her license in her wallet that she had been holding in her hand the whole time.
Then there was the time the guy throws open the door and he has on only a t-shirt and his wife is sitting on the couch and covering herself with only a throw pillow and he says "Well you caught us naked I guess you'll have to deal with it" and I said, "It's fine sir, You aren't the first. Not even the first today." (He was the first that day but I wanted him to feel at ease enough to tip big.)(He did)
Then there was the time the guy opens the apartment door wide and it looks right into the living room. Well on the other side of the small living room was the bathroom and the door was wide open and his wife was in there completely nude and brushing her teeth. She looks up from the sink to see me staring right in and - instead of grabbing a towel or robe or closing the door - stomps out still naked with toothbrush clenched between her teeth and punches him in the arm and yells "Asshole!" (only it came out as "aaaaaa-ole and foamy toothbrush spit was flying all over and dribbling down her chin and, seriously, was kinda hot) and stomps back to finish brushing her teeth. Never covered up or closed the door though. I was laughing so hard I almost just gave them the pie. (but sense took over and reminded me I was working this part-time night job because I needed the money)
Oddly enough, in MY experience, the nakeder people were, the better they tipped.
I've been offered beer, whisky, weed, coke, acid, other company's pizza (they were so baked they got hungry again but the place they ordered from the first time was closed so they called us) but the only time I got laid on a delivery was when I delivered a pizza to my wife. She felt bad that other guys were on the score-card and I wasn't so she hooked me up. It counts!
Aristus
(66,316 posts)My only real worry was delivering to any of the patients who frequented the clinic where I worked. That never happened.
But I never got to experience a beautiful woman answering the door stark naked, either. (I don't know where these stories come from...)
I got stiffed for a tip a few times, but most people tipped adequately.
Never got threatened or had a weapon brandished at me.
Only got lost a couple of times.
It's was just an experience. Just kind of 'meh'.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)why you would worry about delivering to the patients
Aristus
(66,316 posts)Couple of reasons, I guess.
I guess I wouldn't want anyone to think that being an allied health professional was analogous to delivering pizzas.
Plus, there might have been some awkwardness surrounding the fact that I can't acknowledge a patient outside of clinic unless they bring it up first; due to privacy laws.
Stupid concerns, but that's how I felt.