'Please do not make your presence known during delivery': 20+ Delivery drivers who agreed to their customer's bizarre requests

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 12, 2025 5:00 AM EDT

These delivery drivers have seen it all. When you do that kind of job for long enough, you get to see all sides of humanity. You'll deliver food to parents with toddlers running around a messy home, old folks who can barely get to the door, crazy college kids, and everyone in between. After a few months on the job, these workers think they've seen it all… but every driver has at least one story they could tell you about their most off-the-wall customer experience. 

Some people had your run-of-the-mill stingy customers, the kind who hand you a $10 bill for an order that costs $9.96 and then have the audacity to ask for change. Then there are the customers who are just using the delivery guys for their cars: they'll order a pizza to their home, then hop into the car with the delivery guy in order to basically Uber home (with a pizza!), which a surprising amount of delivery dudes seem to be okay with. Then there are the really bad customers. These are the ones who will straight up take their tip money back, or get really upset with the driver and make them head all the way back to the pizza place to get a fresh pizza. You can read a bunch of great stories below, fresh from the mouths of the pizza delivery guys who lived through it. 

Next, read the hilarious (ongoing!) saga of the dude who claims to have been buying and returning 110-pound anvils for 8 months after getting free shipping on Amazon Prime: "This may be the funniest thing someone has ever chosen to do with their use of free will." 

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    [de... I deliver organic produce in Ohio. Our clientele is mostly upper-class people because organic food + delivery fees is quite pricey. Anyway, on my pick sheet I have an area under each client where they can put special delivery instructions. For example, they may want their box placed out of street view or on their back porch.
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    One day I'm making my way through route, listening to the Joe Rogan podcast, when I look down at my next customer's information to see the following special instructions: "PLEASE DO NOT MAKE YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN DURING DELIVERY" I took this to mean I should be quiet when approaching the house and setting the
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    box down, no big deal. Turns out what she meant is that I should park down the road and walk to her house so that her neighbors don't know she receives deliveries "from the help". I was pretty embarrassed-- for her, not me-- but I played it cool and tried to leave. We drivers have communication software we can use on route and I let them know to make a note
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    of this customer. Turns out, two weeks later the same thing happened to another driver but she called the cops and the driver later told me she told him it was due to his race. Crazy world we live in.
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    Apparently this woman simply did not like the way delivery vehicles driven by non-filthy-rich people. looked in front of her home.
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    ryanpt670 A guy paid me $10 for $9.96 pizza. I told him I'd have to run to my car to get some pennies, he said "I'll wait."
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    Lok... One of our semi-regulars called to place an order of eggplant parmesan right before closing. My boss. being stoned and bored decided to make this meal look fabulous while I was cleaning in the back. Took the delivery to the dude and came back, no big deal... Except I see my boss on the phone, crying.
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    Apparently the dude had ordered this as his possible last meal before going in for bone marrow transplant surgery the next morning. He had called to thank us for receiving a meal that looked just like the way his grandmother used to make it.
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    Edit: sorry folks, fell asleep right after originally posting. The guy did make it! He called us back two weeks later and ordered the same thing and we gave it to him on the house. He tipped the dude who delivered with the twenty he was going to pay for it as well.
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    [deleted] Wasn't an ask but this old woman paid exact change and tipped me in delicious pears. But when winter came she stopped, so cold.
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    meowitsmichelle. Pizza was $14.98. She handed me $15 and with all seriousness said "keep the change for gas."
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    CasualAustrian A old woman asked for a bottle of warm water. She drank it in 3 seconds before taking the pizza. Was a weird day.
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    [deleted] I was at a concert at Gillette Stadium and we took a party bus there. Got way too drink at the concert and we went back out to the party bus a little early while some people stayed inside the concert. We weren't thinking completely straight and ordered Dominos. We told
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    them our address was "party bus at Patriot Place parking lot." They actually came and dropped off 4 Pizzas. They made a loyal Dominos customer that night.
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    [deleted] I live in a shore town and have to occasionally deliver to the beach. We are told to call the customer when we arrive so we can meet up with them on the beach. One day I ran a beach delivery and I went to call the customer but no one was picking up the phone. I called about ten times and still no answer, so I decided to walk the beach with the
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    food raised up, hoping someone would acknowledge me, claiming the food. After about fifteen minutes, I FINALLY found the customer and explained the whole scenario and I didn't even get a tip. It was the most pathetic delivery I have ever ran. Still
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    me off to this day. It was nearly 100 degrees and it was around fourth of July weekend so I was extremely busy and could've spent that half hour running more deliveries as opposed to walking the beach for some ah le who didn't even tip me.
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    the... Had someone order the Extravaganzza (basically every topping ever) from Dominos. With triple toppings. I told him it wouldn't cook, manager told him it wouldn't cook. He said it was fine. We put it through the oven 2 times, crust was basically burned. Dropped it off, came back and got a call. Apparently it didn't cook and he wanted a
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    refund. Manager just had him banned from all Dominos locations in our area instead. EDIT: More stories! Had a drink lady try and put the change in my pocket herself, in front of her family. Went to a house that had a prank call for 3 extra large pizzas (3 other drivers from other resturants showed up,
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    owner was confused as they hadn't ordered food). Took them back to the store, took a call from a lady throwing a kids birthday party at a nearby swimming pool and sold her the 3 pizzas at a hefty discount. Took 3 calls from a guy looking for a girl who had clearly given him our number instead of hers the night before. Gave him a discount "heartbreaker"
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    deal I came up with on the spot. Got in to a competition with one of my managers to who could answer the phone with the most ridiculous name and not have the customer notice. I used Pocahontas, but I lost to Rainbow Buttsprinkles. Had my colleagues steal my rental car, since mine was being repaired due to a part
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    of a building falling on it (I wasn't in it) and go off roading, getting a Hyundai Accent stuck in the mud, and then 2 pickups trying to pull it out also got stuck. Had the entire exhaust system from the headpipe to the muffler fall off my beater car. Took multiple school lunch deliveries to elementary schools, sometimes in other
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    towns that don't have a pizza place, would haul a couple hundred personal pizzas in, never got tipped once, and the volunteers would just stare at me like I should have moved it all from my car in to the gym in 1 trip and serve it for them. Was getting gas and had a truck at the station back on to the hood of my car, just after I got it back from the
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    previous building related repairs. Once had my car spin 180 on the freeway on a day that it snowed. (Luckily traffic was only going about 10km/h)
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    [deleted] a guy said he only had $100 bills, but I only brought enough change to break a $50. He called the store and complained, and didn't leave a tip, and actually refused to pay for his food until I went all the way back to the store,
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    got more change (which was against company policy to accept a $100 anyway), and came back. my boss said to just come back to the store, and he'd take care of it.
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    Beast510 I guess weird requests weren't a thing when I delivered pizza. Weirdest thing anyone asked me for was a dill pickle pizza, which I guess isn't that weird, but it made my car stink for 2 weeks.
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    Altonator Online order came through. On the notes the customer asked "What does the fox say?" I had just seen the video a few days earlier so I was familiar with it.
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    Pulled up and rang the doorbell. Gave them their pizza and they sat there expecting to hear it. I did the song and they all cried out in joy and had the biggest smiles on their faces. Got a nice tip off of it too.
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    Waterproof_soap Driver/order taker many moons ago. Best one was a guy who called and asked if we did pizza without sauce. Sure, no problem. Do we make them without cheese? Yeah, we can do that.
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    Then he asked for a pizza with no sauce, no cheese, no toppings. "Is there like a special name for that kind of pizza?" "Yes, sir. Bread."
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    Drew72 Used to deliver pizza, had a regular customer who would phone in a delivery order then wait in the car park and ask every delivery worker if they had his pizza and request a ride home. The cost of a delivered pizza was about half the cost of a taxi. I drove him home every couple of weeks for a year or so.
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    mynamewasalread... Kind of on topic. Not a pizza boy or anything but one day I walked into a favorite pizza place of mine and asked if I could just buy a throw away bottle of Dr. Pepper since I was walking to work. The manager handed me the pop and said "it's on the house."
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    Next week I ordered a pizza and tipped the delivery guy 50. Dude looked like he won the lottery. "Tell the boss | said thanks for the soda." One good turn deserves another and the dudes there would drive through a blizzard to get pizzas out so he probably deserved it anyway.
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    hotmarhotmar I was once asked to make a pizza into a pokéball for a 35 year old man's birthday party. He was stoked.
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    KnuckleMeat ed We had a guy we called the Ice Man. He was a dis hermit who lived by a lake. He would request that the driver stop at a gas station and get a cup of ice. He would also sometimes have the driver deliver his pizza and he'd have you drop a check off at the bank with a
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    bank slip for $5 back. That was your tip. Not really weird, but kind of a pain in the a
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    LuluBadonkadonk I asked a Pizza dude for a ride once with my friend while dressed in bubble wrap. It was some holiday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, long before Uber and Lyft, and the wait for a cab was an hour, so I saw this kid delivering a pizza and offered him $10 to drive us somewhere about 2 miles away (I was in 4 inch heels, not about to walk that sh).
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    He agreed and during the ride, he proceeded to tell us how much he loved delivering pizzas. He said, "Everybody is excited to see me. I come to the door and people come running. I'm like Santa Clause...with pizza." It was nice to find a 16 year old kid who found meaning in his job delivering pizzas, as I was a drink 21
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    year old dressed in bubble wrap, trying to figure out what I doing with the rest of my life. Still working on that second part.
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    jaxrenekton I was delivering a pizza to a customer. He tried to give me a coupon, and I said you can keep it since I would throw them away. I guess he heard "you can eat it". Quickly and efficiently, the guy stuffed the coupon in his mouth, chewed a couple of times, and swallowed it. What a legend!
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    jiyujinkyle I delivered for a year. Once one of the orders was made wrong and I had to go back to her house with the replacement and she asked for the tip back. And she specifically said she wanted it back to my manager on the phone in case another driver brought her the replacement.
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