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DoorDashing coffee is insane
~~coffee~~ 1600 kCal of coffee flavored sugar.
When you put it in callorie numbers than it sounds more sane.
Yelling at the driver for putting the food right in front of the door 😡
Is that an American thing that an external door opens outwards? I don't think anywhere else in the world they would. (Except fire escapes.)
The main door opens inwards the little glass/screen door opens outwards. In this pic there is no way for him to open the door without hitting the drinks.
The door looks high enough to come over the drinks, but I do have bad depth perception. If not, I think there's room to squeeze a person out the side of the door and get the delivery, but you wouldn't want to fling the door open.
That's the Storm Door. The main external door to the house opens inward (behind the kitty).
Thank you! Interesting, never heard of that.
If you have an extra screen/storm door, how the hell do you make them both open inwards?
Why would you need 2 doors?
Sure, you've entered through the first door, but what about second door?
Only an extra key you could loose. How do you "enter" the first door when there's a second but closed door right behind it? My house also has 2 outside doors: 1 in the front and 1 in the back.
It insulates better than your normal single door, the screen door is self closing so it helps to keep bugs out if you're doing anything around the house where you're going in and out a bunch, and when the weather is nice it's quite enjoyable to leave the main door open so all the light and a breeze and sounds get through the screen door. It's like a window that goes all the way to the floor and never has curtains in the way. In the US most front doors are sort of in the main living room. It's an open floor plan where the entry way and living room aren't divided by walls.
It insulates better than your normal single door
You don't have insulated upvc doors?
Yeah, but now imagine it being double walled.
They had that in Sweden, so Idk.
I think almost every house I've ever seen has externally opening doors. Where it's not a thing is in apartment buildings where an externally opening door would be a hazard to other residents.
I know of one small town in my country that has internally opening doors because the local council demands it for aesthetic and historical reasons.
It’s like they have no understanding of what their job actually is. If they thought about it at all, they would realize they fucked up… or it’s intentional?
Or most people who do this job can't afford to get deliveries themselves so they never encounter the problem themselves, and they're not paid enough to actually care about it. Their energy is spent thinking about getting to the next delivery, not doing each one perfectly.
Why didn't he ring the bell and handed the order to someone? Whenever I order something, whether it's food or a package, the delivery guy always waits for me to open the door to hand it to me. When I'm not at home they deliver it to my neighbors and leave a note in my mailbox.
You dont uber eats then, because at no point do they do any of that.
They do over here
One of the parcel delivery drivers in my area does that. Usually I can get whatever parcel is on the doorstep to shift enough (without damaging it) to squeeze out the front door, but I'm expecting at some point to have to go out the back door because the parcel blocking the front door will be too heavy!
I don't understand why anyone would have this sort of thing delivered.
More money than sense.
Shit like this is way more common than you realize. Here where I am near Boston there are countless people who come into all manner of fast food places to just pick up food to deliver to people. Oftentimes there are more delivery drivers picking things up than in person orders. It's wild. They usually double park with their hazards on or slide into a handicap spot to boot, and they'll absolutely bypass the line and ask the workers even though there's a long queue ahead of them.
Meanwhile everyone says they can't afford to save up for housing and that they don't make enough money to do anything.... and then they'll go grab their delivery with a 30% upcharge and a tip on top from outside where a driver dropped it off.
The pandemic escalated this trend from an uncommon oddity with a decent price (because pre-pandemic it was largely VC subsidized) but around 2021 the fees were cranked up to 11 and payments to drivers went through the floor.
I definitely see clusters of tablets at some restaurants so they can manage it all.
It's definitely quite common. And I hate it. I have a hard time not judging folks' use of these things, at least in the USA where the people doing the actual work don't get their fair share of the money, let alone health insurance or paid time off or sick leave.
I did this twice:
- I was very drunk and had Dairy Queen delivered. I was immediately ashamed when I saw the bill and hid all the evidence from my wife in shame. Would not recommend. It was over twice the cost.
- I was in a rush for a trip, the car had issues so I needed to get a rental the morning of, and I didn't have time for breakfast or to stop at a fast food restaurant. So I made the horrible choice of getting junk food delivered while I got ready. Overall not a horrible choice, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The economics of delivering fast food are awful.
Don't put food directly in front of the door!
RIP those drinks
one of the situations in which it should be "for lil bro and me"
I got a door dash drop off pic where my dog is running in the background. It's one of my fave pics of her lmao
"Play with me! PLEASE!"
It's a cat so both
Khajit has many wares for sale.
Man, I sure do love to DoorDash™ some Dunkin'™!
Part of me hopes the original post was intentional marketing, because I'm still not ready to accept that people speak in brands now.
Out of French Crullers again!!!
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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