'As I am in mid-sentence, he pushed me back': Enraged customer attacks delivery driver over delivery time

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Sep 26, 2022 10:00 AM EDT

It's no great secret that people tend to get worked up about things that really just aren't worth it. Sure, waiting for an unexpectedly long amount of time for your food can be frustrating, and by the time it arrives it's usually cold, but you're forced to begrudgingly eat it in the state that it's in because your hunger has reached unbearable levels. People tend to get irrational when they're hungry but going as far as to attack a delivery driver over a late delivery is downright insane, especially when a message to the app's customer service team would suffice.

Hell, I waited two hours for pizza delivery from Uber Eats just last night. The app seemed to think that the rider was delivering on a bicycle but after sitting at a gas station for close to 40 minutes I began to get worried for her well-being. The thought of a woman riding her bike alone down the streets of Brooklyn and coming to a sudden, prolonged, halt started all sorts of wild thoughts going in my mind. When she finally arrived, she wasn't on a bike, but riding in the back of a big SUV. Did this girl suffer a mechanical issue with her bike that led her to need to be picked up? Or was she running a scam in which she and a partner were fielding multiple deliveries at once in order to maximize revenue? The world may never know… but she definitely wasn't wearing cycling-friendly clothing.

If we're tying this back into the point here, at no point did I consider yelling at or attacking my driver when they arrived. A was hungry and incredibly sleepy, but sometimes that's just the way these things go.

Unfortunately for this delivery driver the people they were delivering to had a different opinion, and they found themselves accosted and then assaulted -which ended in a brawl and police involvement.

Keep scrolling to see the screenshots of the thread and for more material check out these wild stories from thirteen delivery drivers.