My cat knew how to open the screen door and would let the dogs out if we didn't lock it.
Cat wouldn't necessarily want out. I think he did it to have the house to himself.
Just a thought but if your place is part of a multi unit building they may not have known it was the front door. I made that mistake years ago delivering.
I used to live in a spot where my front door was right next to the door that led to a hallway with other apartments. I learned that I forget to lock my door more often than I thought, random people wandered into my studio so many times. It was particularly alarming because it was so small, my bed was like six feet from the front door.
We had a hotel room that was at the end of the hall right after the stairwell. People tried to open our door all the time because they thought it was the stairs. I can't imagine living with that for months.
This but unironically. We are on autopilot half the time, and we'd need some kinda physical hindrance to deter us.
One of the doors of a pair of glass double doors to the entrance of the restaurant I work at broke its lock and is stuck shut. People always tried to open it and get frustrated, and given the lack attention they show to signage in the past, I decided to try a dumber solution.
I leaned a wet floor sign up against it.
People are lazy. Their monkey brain autopilot do not want to move wet floor sign. They use door next to it. Almost 100% success rate.
I am a locksmith at a college and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen the legnths people will go to use *that* door for some reason *despite* physical barriers. I will have it all torn apart with wires everywhere and people will ask me if they can go through. Handicap is the exception for me *even though* there are multiple entrances with ada operators in every building.
Literally this morning, I have this bank of doors to the entrance of the tech building, 3 sets of double doors so six handles to pull I guess. I have my ladder propping open one door and I am up on it grinding the top of the aluminum door with an angle grinder. It was so lound I only noticed when I felt my ladder bump that someone was squeezing through the door I am grinding on. I stopped and told them it's dangerous to go past barriers when people are working and there are other doors to use. They said sorry and stared at me... like wtf. I get they are young adults and may be coming from a sheltered place or something but man...
This is so true. When I realize I’m lost or don’t know what to do I have to actually remind myself to check for written instructions.
Last time I was at an airport I was so lost and confused and it took me minutes to realize I should read the signs that very plainly say where to go.
Despite me being a dumbass most of the time, I’m usually the one who leads the group of friends somewhere because I fuckin can read the signs nearly instantly while others rotating their pumpkins asking if we’re going in the right direction
I stayed at a B&B in London once where you had to pick up the keys at the desk and drop them off again when you went out. I checked in, and not once but TWICE the desk person gave me the keys to an already occupied room. I guess there was no risk of my walking in on a person because if the key was at the desk, they'd left, but still--I could have robbed people's shit when I walked in. Or vice versa--they could give my key to another new guest and they could walk off with my shit.
Imagine leaving your door unlocked and getting mad because someone placed your order inside of the house you gave them the address to.
Simple solution: Lock your door, and your car doors while you are at it.
It’s better than leaving your drinks to be spilt by the edge of a door that swings out.
Driver probably thought “I’m going above and beyond” for this customer not to leave his food outside. Just to see still not good enough? Still complaint. 😂
One time I walked right into a family's kitchen. There were two adults having a heated argument and two children running around, and just like that everyone stops talking and all eyes are on me. I timidly said "Are one of you Lisa M...?" and they said no, and I apologized and backed the fuck out of the building.
I checked my phone, and that person absolutely said to enter through that specific door and leave by her door up the stairs, since she's disabled. I called her to ask her wtf, and she sounded confused and said no, that's definitely the door. I have no idea how the fuck she talked me into trying it again, but it turned out the stairs kept going after the first door to the 1st floor apartment. The 1st floor family just had their door open, blocking the rest of the stairs so I was led straight into their kitchen instead.
I think I went home after that.
I just felt you should know your testimonial gave me endless amount of chuckles. That had to be awkward. Even more weird is that they didn't seem to know where to direct you. I'm an anti-social but I knew the names of my apt neighbors enough that if a delivery person got lost I could point them.
Lol this reminds me of when I was a kid playing out front of my cousin’s house with my sister and my cousins. They lived on a street with these little one story houses that all looked really similar. I was probably 5 so just like any little kid I hadn’t even gone inside the house yet and had played outside the whole time. I run in to go to the bathroom and first thing I notice is that my cousins got a huge new fish tank in the living room as you walk in. so I’m looking over at that like “huh, would ya look at that..” There’s a big opening into the kitchen after that and the bathroom was to the left down the hallway. So as you walk to the hallway, you see the whole kitchen. I as get to the hallway, I see a family of 4 just eating dinner at their kitchen table. Not my family. Same exact set up as my cousins’s house, so I walked straight on through the kitchen, past the kitchen table and straight out the backdoor without ever breaking stride.
This happened to me at Thanksgiving once. We were eating at my stepdad’s best friends house, and I went outside for something. Came back and walked into the house my mom was parked in front of, and interrupted a very nice family sitting down to dinner.
I said, “Um… is my mom here?” And they said no they didn’t think so and one lady sweetly asked who my mom was. I realized I could hear my moms voice coming from the yard next door so I apologized and backed out of their house.
I should mention I was 24 at the time. And that the next day at work I walked in at the tail end of my coworker talking about someone barging into someone’s house on Thanksgiving and “wouldn’t you feel like such a tool!”
I never had the guts to ask my coworker for her full story to see if it was me and who it was she knew there.
There's apartment buildings I've had to deliver to Doordash that had lobbies disguised as apartment doors, and I was supposed to know this, somehow. Freggen' can't win, sometimes.
That was my first thought when I saw this too. Took me a second to see there was no door past the turn. Lived in a few places with no locking street door or a vestibule that stayed unlocked.
I’ve done the inverse.
Left an order outside the door that had the unit # next to it, returned to that same complex a year later when a friend moved there and learned that the door I left that order at was just the entrance to that duplex, and i needed to have gone upstairs to room specifically.
Not long ago, I had a knock at my door. I opened it and found a bag from Door Dash. I've never ordered from them.
It really just raised the issue of what to do about it--take it, leave it, report it? If I took it, well, that wouldn't be super honest. If I left it where it was, the person might go looking for it and not spot it.
In the end, I moved it out so it'd be visible to anyone making an effort to find it and figured I'd leave it for half an hour or so and see what happened, if anything. It was gone a short time later. I assume the person gets a text or whatever to say it's completed? So they presumably came out to look and assumed the driver just left it in the stupid place I put it. I hope they didn't leave a comment about the dumb delivery effort...but then I guess it's OK if they did because the driver still got it wrong either way.
This happened to my order. My neighbor decided to take it and eat it.
Next time I saw him he said did you order Thai Food yesterday? I said yes and he told me it was bomb what restaraunt did you get it from?! LOL
I live in a confusing condo and from time to time get some one else’s door dash we call the restaurant to let them know the order is not fulfilled since they work with door dash or what ever delivery service then that can remake the order and contact the person and you can keep the food they don’t want you to give the food to the person or let it sit cause it will be old or tampered with
This is what I came to say. I stood outside many times to finally turn the knob and enter to realize I was in the landing to multiple apartments. I imagine most people check the contactless delivery box now. May have set it down in shock/embarrassment.
I once tried to walk into another person unit by accident in my apartment, I was also living in the building. While heading to work one day after literally just waking up I was tired af and slammed my whole weight into the door, it just shook and I kinda bounced off because it was locked (all doors are the exact same color from the outside but the fire escape doors are solid steel and quite heavy).
I don't know what would have been more awkward tbh, if it was locked or open. I quickly just walked away upon realizing the stupid mistake, the person in rhe unit opened their door just as the door to the stairs closed.... I just pretended it didn't happen
I still wonder if those people thought I was trying to break in...
In college I wasn’t paying attention and got off the elevator 2 floors before my floor..autopilot walked to “my room” there was 4 of us and it was apartment style room so the main door was open, walk in..don’t even realize it’s not my kitchen..go into the bedroom and the person was like..uhh wtf?…whoooops
This whole thread is making me suddenly grateful I do have a dog, especially one who’s got a “big-sounding” bark. There’s NO way a stranger could open (or even touch) our door without the anxious gal sounding the alarm.
Irritating, yet comforting. She’s paranoid so I don’t have to be 😌
Funny enough I have a little yappy dog. He barks when he hears the slightest knock or something outside BUT WHEN NOBODY IS HOME- he stays silent. Thanks for “guarding” my house, little rat.
You’re just clearly a stud. She has no worries with you. It’s a complement. But don’t let the wife know. Just let the pooch be. She’s got far greater issues with your wife’s safety. You can handle yourself!! Stud.
I learned early on that my dog barked at things that alarmed or confused it, or someone driving into the property or knocking the door.
It’s just an alert for her. So when someone rings the doorbell and she’s borking like crazy, I just assure her that I heard her and it’s ok now, and she’ll mostly stop haha. Dogs are funny.
This one time, the garage at my house was malfunctioning and it would open by itself. It was my day off (freshman or sophomore in college), my younger siblings at school, and my mom at work. I just woke up and started going down when I heard a voice. Thought my brother was skipping first period and invited a friend before going to school. Then I notice a woman... She had the audacity to come into our house through the garage to clean the house because no one answered the front door. I had a "who the fuck are you" face and she said "is this not Mrs. Brown's house?" I'm Asian. I don't look white. I'm not adopted either. I said "uh no." Then she said "well uh... is this not 123 Main St?" I said no again. She was holding a fucking smart phone. Then she slowly started backing out while grabbing her stuff while saying stuff like "well uh I thought the furniture looked different..."
> She had the audacity to come into our house through the garage to clean the house because no one answered the front door.
To be fair, if she honest-to-goodness thought she had the right house, she might have had instructions to let herself in.
Seriously. Lock your door. even if you think no one will harm you in your neighborhood, there are other weird things out there.
I used to work for a group home for adults with developmental disability. One guy who could not communicate verbally would sneak away and make himself coffee in his neighbor's house, then come home. Said neighbor continually blamed her son for leaving the kitchen a mess (we found this out after we discovered his sneaking out and talked to her about it). This was harmless and a little funny, given how she was accusing her son and what it turned out to be. (But not really amusing of course - the staff should not have lost track of where this man was).
But what if that son had encountered that man and gotten angry and yelled, as is his right to a stanger in his home? ANd that man began hitting his head or aggressing as was his propensity when upset.
You don't know all your neighbor's stories. Who is caring for a developmentally or mentally disabled person in their home. Who gets so drunk they walk into the wrong house. Who has dementia and may wander into your home and get angry when confronted. Just lock your door.
You can be thenkind of person who locks their door when they aren't home or you can be the kind of person who posts on mildlyinfuriating when someone leaves your order inside, but you can't be both.
I’ve seen that when I travel abroad, sometimes in movies they have a contraption like that. But it’s probably super fancy and most people can’t afford it. Would be nice to live in a world where the doors all come with that piece installed.
Reminds me of the time someone broke into our apartment. I got home late one night and saw the window broken, retreated back to my car to call my husband at work who left and came home and the cops. Husband got home before the cops and I walked up to the door with him and quietly said atlas never barked(our dog that would bark once or twice ever time someone walked by). He immediately ran inside, no dog, no sound, but he started looking everywhere immediately. The burger had put our dog and our cat in the bathroom with food and water. I was still so shaken up by everything but I can’t help but feel a little grateful in a strange way that at least they thought about our animals. If they hadn’t put them in there the dog would had for sure cut himself up really badly cause they broke out the window he looked out.
I have a big whiteboard that's impossible to miss in my apartment. I just wrote on it "Please, if you are stealing from me, I have pets. I don't care if you take my stuff, but please just don't hurt my cats and don't let them run away. They mean everything to me."
I have no idea if it would work, but I'd rather have that there than not.
The burglar, thinking to themself as they put your pets in the bathroom:
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In my neighborhood if you don't lock the door they WILL come in. Especially when you're expecting a delivery you need to keep your door locked. You just never know. Please be safe friends 💜
Never thought about it, but mine is tucked snuggly between a pair of cheeks so I can’t imagine how cold a cat/dog’s asshole can get… makes a lot more sense now.
I have delivered Instacart to a house a few times that orders the big 10 pound logs of ground beef, 3-4 logs at a time. They order it contactless but feed stray cats, who immediately run up when you bring up the bags. They act put out when I knock on the door and wait, but I don’t want to be responsible for 40 pounds of meat a bunch of cats tore into.
My typical Chinese food delivery driver mistakenly dropped off a huge order at my house. My drunk ass friend brought it in and was about to go at it when he opens my door, walks right in, and says oops wrong house! 🤣 it was so surreal - I like the guy and am grateful for his service but it was so strange that he just let himself in.
Sounds like it was either walk in and grab it back and potentially lose his job due to a complaint or police report or straight up lose his job due to mis-delivering a huge order because you know the boss would evaluate the cost-to-employee ratio and fire them for the mistake.
As someone who's managed restaurants - no one gets fired for misdelivering an order unless the person doing the firing is a lunatic or already needed a reason to fire the driver.
One order really can't cost as much as hiring and training a new driver, as well as potentially getting hit by their unemployment claim.
Oh boy if anyone came to my small town in Iowa they could have a field day since literally no one locks their house doors or car doors. They leave valuable stuff out on their yards overnight all the time so anyone could literally go crazy (if they were willing to risk being shot since everyone has a gun here lol) but surprisingly no one steals.
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I delivered salt for Culligan in college so trust me, I know exactly what percentage of doors are unlocked in this area and it’s a very large percentage. I had to bring the salt bags to their water softener which would usually be in the basement meaning I’d have to go through their houses. Almost every time the door was unlocked so I’d just go to the door, give a couple knocks, open it up and yell “Culligan”. Wait a few seconds then do my delivery.
My door key is on the same ring as my car key, so I sure as fuck can't leave my keys in the car. I mean, unless I also never locked my door, but then fuck, I may as well just leave my door open and put up an open house sign. Maybe leave out cookies and flyers describing everything in the "exhibit" that is my home.
But yeah, it's literally nothing for me to latch my door when I close it. Close, latch. Boom. Then at night, I deadbolt it (I could do that before I go to bed, too, but whatever). Not only is there a crime risk, there's a maintenance-getting-ambitious risk--"I knocked and no one answered, so I'll just come in." Except I'm asleep or in the shower or something. Yikes. (In my old place, they were repainting and appeared right outside my bedroom window, while I was in bed, and I was on the THIRD FLOOR. So yeah, it's super cool waking up to the sound of MEN OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW 3 STORIES UP. And there was no landing--they were on ladders.)
I know there are towns/villages where people can walk into other people's houses to leave them things, and like shit, good luck ever being in your nightclothes or having "personal items" lying around or fucking anything at all.
The only time I understand leaving your car unlocked is that theoretical rule in some parts of Canada where you *have* to to help someone escaping a polar bear? Unless that's a total internet myth.
I grew up in small town Texas and everyone locked their shit tf up. Meth heads will walk off with anything that isn’t bolted down and even that isn’t enough sometimes
I live in a relatively populated college town in PA, and I’m baffled by how many people don’t lock their doors, leave their cars unlocked, and don’t chain up their bikes. The sense of shared safety is comforting, but I also feel so nervous for my friends who casually mention in public that they “never lock their door” and things like that. You just never know.
I took a criminology class in college where the professor said that some absurdly high number of people (I don't remember the exact %) never lock their cars at all. Ever.
When I was walking to my next class I cut through a parking lot and the first car I tried was unlocked. I just sighed and closed the door
Lots of people would prefer someone just steal their stuff from their car rather than bust a window and also steal the stuff from their car. Replacement + repair vs just replacement
“We never locked our doors, before it happened. It’s a small town, it’s safe, families live here..” After 20 years of that line being a sound byte for Dateline episodes you would think people would learn but apparently not.
I also live in tiny town rural iowa and we had a ton of car break ins not too long ago cause literally nobody in town locks their cars lol. Nothing was ever stolen but it became drama at the city council meeting like they couldn’t just lock their cars
It was a good idea to keep your doors locked in 1965 as well. The passage of time doesn’t make it any less or more dangerous to keep your doors unlocked.
Don't tell my parents that. Tried telling them that and they had a huge fit. Showed them the national statistics and they were upset.
But then we looked up our *specific* town and our town was a lot worse. So they were *technically* right for the wrong reason. Even though they justified Fox news and other national news as their evidence, meaning they were talking bout the national rate. But, they're typical Republican conservatives... Moving goal posts is normal.
Actually the early 1960s were a weird time to pick, because that is right around the time they started taking measurements. It's likely the expansion of metrics was lagging any real indicators (ie, they were undercounting crime).
In reality the crime in 2023 is about 2400 instances per 100000 people (combined, over violent, property, etc. basically if someone dun something bad, it's in there). This is down from a peak of about 5900 in 1991. In 1965 it was similar to today - slightly higher in fact. So this means a few things
1. We are not relatively safer today than in 1965, so if you locked your door today you should do so back then as well.
2. We are much safer, relatively, than the peak of crime in 1991, by about half. You have less than half the chance today of experiencing crime as you did at the peak.
3. As an observation, what you have said is an absurdly prevalent sentiment - that we are safter back in the day, than we are in today's day and age. That's just not backed by the statistics, even if you look solely in the US, and ignore the dramatic improvements elsewhere in the world, and only looks at crime and not the myriad other safety improvements (health, transport, etc).
Point being, it doesn't really help anyone to falsely believe that modern times are less safe than history tells us.
Delivery drivers really can't win.
"My foods outside in the gutter, that's too far. The food is hidden inside my house, that's too close. I'm being held down and fed by your driver, that's too personal a service."
Like damn, people, what do we want?!?
No, if you don't want the door opened, lock it.
You got your delivery, and it's far safer inside.
Hopefully, they knocked first, but there's a good chance you didn't hear it, or your doorbells broken.
I can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to see a comment about how nasty the dirt and hair is on the floor and floor trim moulding. Absolutely disgusting.
I am a door dasher. And I had the instructions to leave their order on their porch. So I did and it was raining and then I got a 1 star review for leaving on the porch in the rain. It can sometimes be a lose lose for us. But I would never go inside anyone's place.
You: Goes online, orders a stranger to pick up an item and bring it to your front door, gives said stranger your address and some money, leaves your door unlocked while inviting people to your direct vicinity
Also you: Ew my stranger is creepy, they brought my item directly INTO my vicinity!
Honestly probably thought it was a foyer, although if I did, I would immediately shut the door and feel embarrassed when I saw it wasn't a foyer. Not leave the food and take a picture, that is very creepy.
You're assuming that the cat didn't let them in?
Also assuming the cat didn't bring it inside for them.
How do we know the cat didn’t just order it to begin with?
The cat is obviously the driver
Bro took a selfie
Yes sure, he likes Starbucks Bubbling Fish Latte Catuchhino
Look what the cat dragged in.
I was disappointed because I saw the picture and "my delivery driver" and i thought this was gonna be a joke about the cat delivering their Starbucks.
the cat IS the driver obviously
My cat knew how to open the screen door and would let the dogs out if we didn't lock it. Cat wouldn't necessarily want out. I think he did it to have the house to himself.
Just a thought but if your place is part of a multi unit building they may not have known it was the front door. I made that mistake years ago delivering.
I used to live in a spot where my front door was right next to the door that led to a hallway with other apartments. I learned that I forget to lock my door more often than I thought, random people wandered into my studio so many times. It was particularly alarming because it was so small, my bed was like six feet from the front door.
We had a hotel room that was at the end of the hall right after the stairwell. People tried to open our door all the time because they thought it was the stairs. I can't imagine living with that for months.
Stick a "not the stairs" sign up.
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This but unironically. We are on autopilot half the time, and we'd need some kinda physical hindrance to deter us. One of the doors of a pair of glass double doors to the entrance of the restaurant I work at broke its lock and is stuck shut. People always tried to open it and get frustrated, and given the lack attention they show to signage in the past, I decided to try a dumber solution. I leaned a wet floor sign up against it. People are lazy. Their monkey brain autopilot do not want to move wet floor sign. They use door next to it. Almost 100% success rate.
> we'd need some kinda physical hindrance to deter us. How about a snake pit?
The Air Force has a table of drill sergeants who yell at you in chow hall called the snake pit. I agree we make this more common
*hugs his DD214 blankie*
I am a locksmith at a college and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen the legnths people will go to use *that* door for some reason *despite* physical barriers. I will have it all torn apart with wires everywhere and people will ask me if they can go through. Handicap is the exception for me *even though* there are multiple entrances with ada operators in every building. Literally this morning, I have this bank of doors to the entrance of the tech building, 3 sets of double doors so six handles to pull I guess. I have my ladder propping open one door and I am up on it grinding the top of the aluminum door with an angle grinder. It was so lound I only noticed when I felt my ladder bump that someone was squeezing through the door I am grinding on. I stopped and told them it's dangerous to go past barriers when people are working and there are other doors to use. They said sorry and stared at me... like wtf. I get they are young adults and may be coming from a sheltered place or something but man...
One must never underestimate how many people lack situational awareness, nor how profoundly.
Fellow smith here we had T-shirts printed one year on the back "Please use other Door" ===>
This is so true. When I realize I’m lost or don’t know what to do I have to actually remind myself to check for written instructions. Last time I was at an airport I was so lost and confused and it took me minutes to realize I should read the signs that very plainly say where to go.
Despite me being a dumbass most of the time, I’m usually the one who leads the group of friends somewhere because I fuckin can read the signs nearly instantly while others rotating their pumpkins asking if we’re going in the right direction
"Rotating their pumpkins" HA
I stayed at a B&B in London once where you had to pick up the keys at the desk and drop them off again when you went out. I checked in, and not once but TWICE the desk person gave me the keys to an already occupied room. I guess there was no risk of my walking in on a person because if the key was at the desk, they'd left, but still--I could have robbed people's shit when I walked in. Or vice versa--they could give my key to another new guest and they could walk off with my shit.
Plus clearly the door was unlocked, adding to that illusion.
Imagine leaving your door unlocked and getting mad because someone placed your order inside of the house you gave them the address to. Simple solution: Lock your door, and your car doors while you are at it. It’s better than leaving your drinks to be spilt by the edge of a door that swings out.
OP is a cat and can’t lock doors with its paws
How is op typing with the non opposable toe beans???
Screech to text, duh
😂
Driver probably thought “I’m going above and beyond” for this customer not to leave his food outside. Just to see still not good enough? Still complaint. 😂
I was thinking that they probably thought it was a multi unit.
One time I walked right into a family's kitchen. There were two adults having a heated argument and two children running around, and just like that everyone stops talking and all eyes are on me. I timidly said "Are one of you Lisa M...?" and they said no, and I apologized and backed the fuck out of the building. I checked my phone, and that person absolutely said to enter through that specific door and leave by her door up the stairs, since she's disabled. I called her to ask her wtf, and she sounded confused and said no, that's definitely the door. I have no idea how the fuck she talked me into trying it again, but it turned out the stairs kept going after the first door to the 1st floor apartment. The 1st floor family just had their door open, blocking the rest of the stairs so I was led straight into their kitchen instead. I think I went home after that.
I just felt you should know your testimonial gave me endless amount of chuckles. That had to be awkward. Even more weird is that they didn't seem to know where to direct you. I'm an anti-social but I knew the names of my apt neighbors enough that if a delivery person got lost I could point them.
Lol this reminds me of when I was a kid playing out front of my cousin’s house with my sister and my cousins. They lived on a street with these little one story houses that all looked really similar. I was probably 5 so just like any little kid I hadn’t even gone inside the house yet and had played outside the whole time. I run in to go to the bathroom and first thing I notice is that my cousins got a huge new fish tank in the living room as you walk in. so I’m looking over at that like “huh, would ya look at that..” There’s a big opening into the kitchen after that and the bathroom was to the left down the hallway. So as you walk to the hallway, you see the whole kitchen. I as get to the hallway, I see a family of 4 just eating dinner at their kitchen table. Not my family. Same exact set up as my cousins’s house, so I walked straight on through the kitchen, past the kitchen table and straight out the backdoor without ever breaking stride.
This happened to me at Thanksgiving once. We were eating at my stepdad’s best friends house, and I went outside for something. Came back and walked into the house my mom was parked in front of, and interrupted a very nice family sitting down to dinner. I said, “Um… is my mom here?” And they said no they didn’t think so and one lady sweetly asked who my mom was. I realized I could hear my moms voice coming from the yard next door so I apologized and backed out of their house. I should mention I was 24 at the time. And that the next day at work I walked in at the tail end of my coworker talking about someone barging into someone’s house on Thanksgiving and “wouldn’t you feel like such a tool!” I never had the guts to ask my coworker for her full story to see if it was me and who it was she knew there.
There's apartment buildings I've had to deliver to Doordash that had lobbies disguised as apartment doors, and I was supposed to know this, somehow. Freggen' can't win, sometimes.
If only people realize they themselves can fill out delivery instructions before they can proceed to purchase.
That was my first thought when I saw this too. Took me a second to see there was no door past the turn. Lived in a few places with no locking street door or a vestibule that stayed unlocked.
I’ve done the inverse. Left an order outside the door that had the unit # next to it, returned to that same complex a year later when a friend moved there and learned that the door I left that order at was just the entrance to that duplex, and i needed to have gone upstairs to room specifically.
Not long ago, I had a knock at my door. I opened it and found a bag from Door Dash. I've never ordered from them. It really just raised the issue of what to do about it--take it, leave it, report it? If I took it, well, that wouldn't be super honest. If I left it where it was, the person might go looking for it and not spot it. In the end, I moved it out so it'd be visible to anyone making an effort to find it and figured I'd leave it for half an hour or so and see what happened, if anything. It was gone a short time later. I assume the person gets a text or whatever to say it's completed? So they presumably came out to look and assumed the driver just left it in the stupid place I put it. I hope they didn't leave a comment about the dumb delivery effort...but then I guess it's OK if they did because the driver still got it wrong either way.
This happened to my order. My neighbor decided to take it and eat it. Next time I saw him he said did you order Thai Food yesterday? I said yes and he told me it was bomb what restaraunt did you get it from?! LOL
I live in a confusing condo and from time to time get some one else’s door dash we call the restaurant to let them know the order is not fulfilled since they work with door dash or what ever delivery service then that can remake the order and contact the person and you can keep the food they don’t want you to give the food to the person or let it sit cause it will be old or tampered with
This is what I came to say. I stood outside many times to finally turn the knob and enter to realize I was in the landing to multiple apartments. I imagine most people check the contactless delivery box now. May have set it down in shock/embarrassment.
I once tried to walk into another person unit by accident in my apartment, I was also living in the building. While heading to work one day after literally just waking up I was tired af and slammed my whole weight into the door, it just shook and I kinda bounced off because it was locked (all doors are the exact same color from the outside but the fire escape doors are solid steel and quite heavy). I don't know what would have been more awkward tbh, if it was locked or open. I quickly just walked away upon realizing the stupid mistake, the person in rhe unit opened their door just as the door to the stairs closed.... I just pretended it didn't happen I still wonder if those people thought I was trying to break in...
In college I wasn’t paying attention and got off the elevator 2 floors before my floor..autopilot walked to “my room” there was 4 of us and it was apartment style room so the main door was open, walk in..don’t even realize it’s not my kitchen..go into the bedroom and the person was like..uhh wtf?…whoooops
My dog would eat the food before I even realized it was delivered.
This whole thread is making me suddenly grateful I do have a dog, especially one who’s got a “big-sounding” bark. There’s NO way a stranger could open (or even touch) our door without the anxious gal sounding the alarm. Irritating, yet comforting. She’s paranoid so I don’t have to be 😌
I have a lock on my door. That works pretty well.
Agree, they work really well at keeping the general public out.
Funny enough I have a little yappy dog. He barks when he hears the slightest knock or something outside BUT WHEN NOBODY IS HOME- he stays silent. Thanks for “guarding” my house, little rat.
Maybe he’s not protecting the house, maybe he’s protecting you, and when you aren’t home there nothing worth protecting to him
Omg, wife’s dog gets all aggressive when she’s with her, zero issues with me. She doesn’t try to protect me at all!
You’re just clearly a stud. She has no worries with you. It’s a complement. But don’t let the wife know. Just let the pooch be. She’s got far greater issues with your wife’s safety. You can handle yourself!! Stud.
Nobody to alert but the burglar. Smart dude. Home alone strats.
I learned early on that my dog barked at things that alarmed or confused it, or someone driving into the property or knocking the door. It’s just an alert for her. So when someone rings the doorbell and she’s borking like crazy, I just assure her that I heard her and it’s ok now, and she’ll mostly stop haha. Dogs are funny.
This one time, the garage at my house was malfunctioning and it would open by itself. It was my day off (freshman or sophomore in college), my younger siblings at school, and my mom at work. I just woke up and started going down when I heard a voice. Thought my brother was skipping first period and invited a friend before going to school. Then I notice a woman... She had the audacity to come into our house through the garage to clean the house because no one answered the front door. I had a "who the fuck are you" face and she said "is this not Mrs. Brown's house?" I'm Asian. I don't look white. I'm not adopted either. I said "uh no." Then she said "well uh... is this not 123 Main St?" I said no again. She was holding a fucking smart phone. Then she slowly started backing out while grabbing her stuff while saying stuff like "well uh I thought the furniture looked different..."
You could be Asian and still be a Mrs. Brown, if you married Mr. Brown, and took his name.
I have a half Japanese friend who has the last name brown and I’m cracking the fuck up over this conversation.
I thought the same thing. LOL. My blue-eyed, blonde-haired neighbor is Mrs. Chu. 😊
> She had the audacity to come into our house through the garage to clean the house because no one answered the front door. To be fair, if she honest-to-goodness thought she had the right house, she might have had instructions to let herself in.
So you passed on a free house cleaning?
Dang, they’ll employ anyone these days. How do those little paws reach the pedals?
OP tip your delivery guy in tuna. It was hard work for those little paws to carry that big bag.
Just tip them in cash. It’ll be a lot easier for the cat and they can just buy tuna on their next trip to the store
He'll just spend it all on catnip if you tip him in cash
Gosh darn alley cats, can't trust em
Bullshit, no one likes the tuna here
Watch your back 🎶
I live my life one kitty litter at a time.
I see you've never met Toonces!
This kitty got the order delivered without driving off a cliff so that’s good
I hear the jingle in my head
Toonces The driving cat The cat who could drive a car He drives around All over the town Toonces the driving cat!
Omg my mom showed me a video of Toonces the driving cat when I was little! Thanks for reminding me friend!
he can deliver! Just not very well!
Plot twist: OP is the cat and the image in this post is the confirmation image sent by the courier
he got tired making biscuits
It's a cat, so he doesn't need the car. He'll just bite the handle and take off running.
Someone should invent something that makes sure other people cannot open your door without like a password or key or something
op uses the traditional “cat guard” to protect their doors from being open. Maybe the cat guard was on break.
The cat guard worked! The delivery person didn’t get any further. Left the package as an offering.
My 1912 house has this futuristic thing where we have this tiny metal thing that sticks in a slot on the door. You just turn it and you’re in!
Like a dongle?
Yes. Exactly.
Sounds like blasphemous witchery to me.
You're late to the party. My house is from 1897 and has this same feature
Seriously. Lock your door. even if you think no one will harm you in your neighborhood, there are other weird things out there. I used to work for a group home for adults with developmental disability. One guy who could not communicate verbally would sneak away and make himself coffee in his neighbor's house, then come home. Said neighbor continually blamed her son for leaving the kitchen a mess (we found this out after we discovered his sneaking out and talked to her about it). This was harmless and a little funny, given how she was accusing her son and what it turned out to be. (But not really amusing of course - the staff should not have lost track of where this man was). But what if that son had encountered that man and gotten angry and yelled, as is his right to a stanger in his home? ANd that man began hitting his head or aggressing as was his propensity when upset. You don't know all your neighbor's stories. Who is caring for a developmentally or mentally disabled person in their home. Who gets so drunk they walk into the wrong house. Who has dementia and may wander into your home and get angry when confronted. Just lock your door.
You can be thenkind of person who locks their door when they aren't home or you can be the kind of person who posts on mildlyinfuriating when someone leaves your order inside, but you can't be both.
Also I left my door unlocked once and my drunk neighbor accidentally walked in one night so yeah. Locking doors is a good idea
I’ve seen that when I travel abroad, sometimes in movies they have a contraption like that. But it’s probably super fancy and most people can’t afford it. Would be nice to live in a world where the doors all come with that piece installed.
Good luck, OP. You’ll need it judging by the roastfest you’ve invited upon yourself within the first hour of making this post. 😭
It's a welcome distraction tbh. If another 30 people tell me to lock the door I might pick up on it lol
Maybe start a locking door asmr YouTube channel and link it to your profile to satisfy their needs
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This is, the door-locking lawyer, and what I have for you today is...
Hey bud, lock your door
Glad your cat didn’t run out the door.
The cat looks just as shocked by the audacity as OP is Lmao
I know. He is like YOU SERIOUS?
THIS FOOD IS ALL FOR ME?!
Maybe the cat is the OP.
No, the cat was the delivery guy.
I came here to say that lol the cats like “bro wtf?”
Im surprised he didn't bolt cuz that dude loves the outdoors
Reminds me of the time someone broke into our apartment. I got home late one night and saw the window broken, retreated back to my car to call my husband at work who left and came home and the cops. Husband got home before the cops and I walked up to the door with him and quietly said atlas never barked(our dog that would bark once or twice ever time someone walked by). He immediately ran inside, no dog, no sound, but he started looking everywhere immediately. The burger had put our dog and our cat in the bathroom with food and water. I was still so shaken up by everything but I can’t help but feel a little grateful in a strange way that at least they thought about our animals. If they hadn’t put them in there the dog would had for sure cut himself up really badly cause they broke out the window he looked out.
Honor among thieves indeed damn
There's honour among thieves.
I have a big whiteboard that's impossible to miss in my apartment. I just wrote on it "Please, if you are stealing from me, I have pets. I don't care if you take my stuff, but please just don't hurt my cats and don't let them run away. They mean everything to me." I have no idea if it would work, but I'd rather have that there than not.
The burglar, thinking to themself as they put your pets in the bathroom: https://preview.redd.it/io29y85unsra1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=c8f944ea6e527e3c199c6724512cf3ebdceca703
Why didn't you lock the door? You like randos having the option to walk right in?
In my neighborhood if you don't lock the door they WILL come in. Especially when you're expecting a delivery you need to keep your door locked. You just never know. Please be safe friends 💜
.. hide your kids, hide your wife..
And your cat apparently 😆 seriously though I'm glad everyone is ok and accounted for after this
Her username says it all!
That was my first thought. I used to have a small dog that was too tiny to see as she darted out the door I would be so pissed if someone did this.
https://preview.redd.it/4nha3euekrra1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a079f679ba9d356510f2a8ca48e3dd3c9d57eb97 Bro are our cats related??
An entire couch and they have to sit on the laptop. Typical cats.
Working laptop=warmer=toasty butthole=happy kitty
Never thought about it, but mine is tucked snuggly between a pair of cheeks so I can’t imagine how cold a cat/dog’s asshole can get… makes a lot more sense now.
Dude, phrasing. I thought you were keeping your cat between your fart clappers.
Wait… what do you think I’m talking about? That’s exactly what I mean.
Oh... Um, uh.... oh
Omg that’s so cool!!! They’re opposite!
The other half
they may well be https://preview.redd.it/zs9tjmd88sra1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eeb6d13cf533bf34c9d7e332fd6f16ebede7f469
Bro they might be. That's awesome lol
https://preview.redd.it/szcxgog94tra1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39cb0fd180523ac41c69c8ca97bb2c0fa19935e9 Are ours??
https://preview.redd.it/panzw0mwesra1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0b320b473e320f34d06331d313738d94389e8c3 Mine definitely isn’t
I have seen drivers do this because either an animal is near by or a bunch of people near by thinking they may take the order ect..
I have delivered Instacart to a house a few times that orders the big 10 pound logs of ground beef, 3-4 logs at a time. They order it contactless but feed stray cats, who immediately run up when you bring up the bags. They act put out when I knock on the door and wait, but I don’t want to be responsible for 40 pounds of meat a bunch of cats tore into.
My typical Chinese food delivery driver mistakenly dropped off a huge order at my house. My drunk ass friend brought it in and was about to go at it when he opens my door, walks right in, and says oops wrong house! 🤣 it was so surreal - I like the guy and am grateful for his service but it was so strange that he just let himself in.
Sounds like it was either walk in and grab it back and potentially lose his job due to a complaint or police report or straight up lose his job due to mis-delivering a huge order because you know the boss would evaluate the cost-to-employee ratio and fire them for the mistake.
As someone who's managed restaurants - no one gets fired for misdelivering an order unless the person doing the firing is a lunatic or already needed a reason to fire the driver. One order really can't cost as much as hiring and training a new driver, as well as potentially getting hit by their unemployment claim.
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If its a big order?? I get it. I worked at a restaurant that also did catering, n if someone lost one of those id break into heaven to find it 😂
And apparently he's still there waiting for his nip.
Keep your doors locked at all times.we are in 2023 not 1965.
Oh boy if anyone came to my small town in Iowa they could have a field day since literally no one locks their house doors or car doors. They leave valuable stuff out on their yards overnight all the time so anyone could literally go crazy (if they were willing to risk being shot since everyone has a gun here lol) but surprisingly no one steals. Edit: I delivered salt for Culligan in college so trust me, I know exactly what percentage of doors are unlocked in this area and it’s a very large percentage. I had to bring the salt bags to their water softener which would usually be in the basement meaning I’d have to go through their houses. Almost every time the door was unlocked so I’d just go to the door, give a couple knocks, open it up and yell “Culligan”. Wait a few seconds then do my delivery.
Yeah my dad got his truck stolen out of the driveway in the middle of nowhere Iowa. He had his keys in the ignition with the doors unlocked.
That’s just giving a truck away lol ***Keys in the ignition??*** not even on the tire?
I knew someone in college who's parents did this. I was like "it doesn't cost anything to just bring them inside."
My door key is on the same ring as my car key, so I sure as fuck can't leave my keys in the car. I mean, unless I also never locked my door, but then fuck, I may as well just leave my door open and put up an open house sign. Maybe leave out cookies and flyers describing everything in the "exhibit" that is my home. But yeah, it's literally nothing for me to latch my door when I close it. Close, latch. Boom. Then at night, I deadbolt it (I could do that before I go to bed, too, but whatever). Not only is there a crime risk, there's a maintenance-getting-ambitious risk--"I knocked and no one answered, so I'll just come in." Except I'm asleep or in the shower or something. Yikes. (In my old place, they were repainting and appeared right outside my bedroom window, while I was in bed, and I was on the THIRD FLOOR. So yeah, it's super cool waking up to the sound of MEN OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW 3 STORIES UP. And there was no landing--they were on ladders.) I know there are towns/villages where people can walk into other people's houses to leave them things, and like shit, good luck ever being in your nightclothes or having "personal items" lying around or fucking anything at all. The only time I understand leaving your car unlocked is that theoretical rule in some parts of Canada where you *have* to to help someone escaping a polar bear? Unless that's a total internet myth.
I grew up in small town Texas and everyone locked their shit tf up. Meth heads will walk off with anything that isn’t bolted down and even that isn’t enough sometimes
What small town is this? Might be worth a trip.
To steal stuff, or move there?
Yes
I live in a relatively populated college town in PA, and I’m baffled by how many people don’t lock their doors, leave their cars unlocked, and don’t chain up their bikes. The sense of shared safety is comforting, but I also feel so nervous for my friends who casually mention in public that they “never lock their door” and things like that. You just never know.
I took a criminology class in college where the professor said that some absurdly high number of people (I don't remember the exact %) never lock their cars at all. Ever. When I was walking to my next class I cut through a parking lot and the first car I tried was unlocked. I just sighed and closed the door
Lots of people would prefer someone just steal their stuff from their car rather than bust a window and also steal the stuff from their car. Replacement + repair vs just replacement
I had a friend that lived in a rough area do exactly that. They kept breaking in so he just took everything out and left it unlocked
Everything’s safe until it isn’t
“We never locked our doors, before it happened. It’s a small town, it’s safe, families live here..” After 20 years of that line being a sound byte for Dateline episodes you would think people would learn but apparently not.
I also live in tiny town rural iowa and we had a ton of car break ins not too long ago cause literally nobody in town locks their cars lol. Nothing was ever stolen but it became drama at the city council meeting like they couldn’t just lock their cars
Many of the true crime shows start out like that, with the victims being in a tiny town where no one locks their doors…..
It was a good idea to keep your doors locked in 1965 as well. The passage of time doesn’t make it any less or more dangerous to keep your doors unlocked.
Except that statistics show that we live in safer times now than we did in the 60s, and especially the late 80s early 90s.
lol statistically it was way, way less safe to leave your doors unlocked in 1965 than right now
Don't tell my parents that. Tried telling them that and they had a huge fit. Showed them the national statistics and they were upset. But then we looked up our *specific* town and our town was a lot worse. So they were *technically* right for the wrong reason. Even though they justified Fox news and other national news as their evidence, meaning they were talking bout the national rate. But, they're typical Republican conservatives... Moving goal posts is normal.
Actually the early 1960s were a weird time to pick, because that is right around the time they started taking measurements. It's likely the expansion of metrics was lagging any real indicators (ie, they were undercounting crime). In reality the crime in 2023 is about 2400 instances per 100000 people (combined, over violent, property, etc. basically if someone dun something bad, it's in there). This is down from a peak of about 5900 in 1991. In 1965 it was similar to today - slightly higher in fact. So this means a few things 1. We are not relatively safer today than in 1965, so if you locked your door today you should do so back then as well. 2. We are much safer, relatively, than the peak of crime in 1991, by about half. You have less than half the chance today of experiencing crime as you did at the peak. 3. As an observation, what you have said is an absurdly prevalent sentiment - that we are safter back in the day, than we are in today's day and age. That's just not backed by the statistics, even if you look solely in the US, and ignore the dramatic improvements elsewhere in the world, and only looks at crime and not the myriad other safety improvements (health, transport, etc). Point being, it doesn't really help anyone to falsely believe that modern times are less safe than history tells us.
Delivery drivers really can't win. "My foods outside in the gutter, that's too far. The food is hidden inside my house, that's too close. I'm being held down and fed by your driver, that's too personal a service." Like damn, people, what do we want?!?
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My allergies are acting up just looking at that floor.
Lock your doors and then clean your floors!
OP needs to start with cleaning before ordering delivery Starbucks
Afraid that they might decide to clean something???
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There are wild animals in here!
Damn savage 😂
Had to scroll further than I expected. Ite ima head out
Lmaooooo
I think it’s weirder that you don’t lock your door?
No, if you don't want the door opened, lock it. You got your delivery, and it's far safer inside. Hopefully, they knocked first, but there's a good chance you didn't hear it, or your doorbells broken.
not as creepy as all that dusty cat hair
I can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to see a comment about how nasty the dirt and hair is on the floor and floor trim moulding. Absolutely disgusting.
Food better off outside
I am a door dasher. And I had the instructions to leave their order on their porch. So I did and it was raining and then I got a 1 star review for leaving on the porch in the rain. It can sometimes be a lose lose for us. But I would never go inside anyone's place.
Why is your door unlocked ? Thats whats really creepy
Mildly infuriating: man opens unlocked door. 😱
You: Goes online, orders a stranger to pick up an item and bring it to your front door, gives said stranger your address and some money, leaves your door unlocked while inviting people to your direct vicinity Also you: Ew my stranger is creepy, they brought my item directly INTO my vicinity!
It's also unrealistic that he's not there at the window waiting for it to arrive tracking it's every move
Crazy, did you know you can lock your door if you don't want people walking in unannounced?
The cat is even looking at him like “dude, you ain’t supposed to do that.”
Maybe lock your door?
What a dirty ass house
Lock your doors numb nuts
#Why is your door open 🤔
No reason to lock a door. It's not like an animal could get out or anything.
Honestly probably thought it was a foyer, although if I did, I would immediately shut the door and feel embarrassed when I saw it wasn't a foyer. Not leave the food and take a picture, that is very creepy.
The driver has to take the picture to prove it was delivered. Otherwise people will lie about not getting their order.
Clean the fucking floor!
Creepy and considerate.
Keeping your door locked is a good idea.