Delivery Is Creepy

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Hey, Lauren. Hey, Bobby. You know what's creepy? What? Delivery. Why? Getting things delivered, having people deliver stuff. Pizza. It's so convenient. Amazon. Why is it creepy? Alcohol. That sounds lovely. Food. Yeah, it sounds great. It's extremely convenient. You never have to leave the house. And I love it.

But it's creepy. This whole episode is just going to be about our appreciation for delivery. Yeah, it's great. Getting your groceries. Can you imagine just the whole time we just talk about how much we love it and then the podcast just ends. Big fans. wanted to talk about it today i think it all started with like i mean obviously did it start well pizza food yeah getting like chinese any you know takeout delivery when i was looking up stories

95% of them were like pizza delivery stories. I actually had a hard time finding really anything about like non pizza. Yes. What is wrong with pizza? I think it's just a job. Maybe there's so many. Well, it's like it's cheap food.

So it's, you know, a lot of people can buy it, I think. So you're just opening yourself up to a lot more people. And usually it's, you know, like younger kids, younger people, teenage young adults that are working those jobs. Yeah, fair. Did you have any friends that delivered pizza? We did. We had one and who's still in our, I told you about this, who we still know. Michelle's husband, Nick, used to.

Oh, yeah. What's funny is he I was laughing because he would deliver pizzas. But then, like, if he had a house that was we would all hang out at my cousin's house. He was technically my cousin's friend. And then that's how I knew him. But.

uh we would be hanging out at my cousin's house and they'd be like oh nick's making a delivery nearby he's gonna stop by so he would like make a pizza delivery and we'd be like or we would call him and be like if you come near our area can you just like drop off

if you have any leftover pizza which they did technically have like they had leftover pizza they had to throw out they're not supposed to take yeah I won't put anybody in but if Michelle watches she's gonna be like don't say Nick give you pizza

I mean, he's way past that job. A long time ago. But I remember he would like stop by for a little bit in between his job. And I remember he's thinking like, that's a cool job. He just kind of like who would know if the delivery took a little longer. What's crazy is thinking about it. When he was delivering them, my friend John delivered pizzas. They did that all before. Wait, John that I know? Yeah. Oh. Did all that before Google Maps and GPS. Yeah. It was just, figure it out.

Yeah. How did they? I'm going to have to ask him someday. How did you figure it out? You had to know the town. You had to know. That's crazy. I didn't even think of that. I would have been terrible at that job. Never mind. I thought about doing it because I had a car pretty early on. Just never did it. Even in our old. So we speaking of delivery, I said I was like, if we ever end up moving again.

every house we've ever lived in has had trouble with deliveries. Like our last house, um, was like dead end road. Our house was cut by a lake. So like the, the, the, the road would start. And then there would be a lake and you had to like go around the lake. But when you went around the lake, it was a different street. And then on the other side would be the same street, like the same name. And then the street above us had a very similar name. So very often.

our stuff would get delivered to like the street above or like I'm just ran our street had like three houses on it because it was like a tiny dead end road yeah um and so yeah people they would deliver it yeah to the street next to us Or they would call us and be like, hey, your street just ended and there is no. like your house number and we're like no you gotta are you at a lake can you go around it was the most annoying all the time we had all the time i just assumed

people would not know where to go, and then we'd have to correct it. And then, like, I became pretty good friends with the one UPS driver who gave me a good tip one Christmas and all that. I actually had to deal with Dexter, too, barking at him constantly. Yeah. Yeah. And now, our current house has a very steep...

driveway so it's difficult for a lot of people to get out or people just don't want to yeah or they leave so they just leave stuff and then it's very easy for somebody to literally drive by and be like oh i like we Like we can't see the mailbox from where we are. So there's times people will leave packages down there. We have no idea they're there. Yeah. And also would have no idea if somebody just drives by and takes them. Yeah. So hopefully our next house.

That would be our number one question. Do you have any problems with delivery in any way, shape or form? We were living in an apartment complex and we had to rely on the workers. being there, accepting the packages. Oh, I forgot about that. That was so annoying. And then when we lived in the city, we would get stuff delivered to our jobs. Oh, that's right. That was easy. I would always get it delivered to my office. And then we have Jose, the mail guy. Oh, yeah.

I was good friends. He's really nice. And I was like, whenever I get something like important, I'd always, uh, message, call him. Hey, we got a new phone or something. Yeah. We were waiting on this phone. Yeah. Jose, where is it? And it's like, can I come get it? I totally forgot. I must have blocked all that memory. Yeah. So we haven't never had an easy delivery.

Residence. Yes. Household. It's our number one priority if we ever move to another house. Yeah. I'd be curious. I should have looked it up, but I mean, it probably would have a decent amount of research, but like finding out. Well, two things. One, how many...

what the increase in like delivery drivers was as far as like UPS, FedEx and all that. Oh God, in the last couple of years? Yeah, I'm sure. Well, 2020 made it astronomical, I think. And I would hope their salaries increased because they have to just do so much. Probably didn't, which is probably not nonsense. And that's why they're all angry. I have to say some of the Amazon delivery people here are champs, though, like.

I have seen them. There was one time it was snowing and this guy, I think, was too nervous to come up our driveway with his car. So he just walked up the driveway with these huge packages in the snow. And I was like, this guy is an absolute hero.

and just left it at the bottom like other people do. It's funny, like some people will just be champs and bring it up and some people are just like, ah, screw it and just believe it. Usually if I see it, I'll run out. Yeah, if we see it, if we see people that are there, like leave it down there, we'll come get it or just like put it like.

slightly up the driveway and we'll come get it um yeah but the other thing something i've considered because i've had to break down a lot of cardboard boxes in the past 10-ish years is i wish i would have known and invested in like cardboard box manufacturers. I mean, if that's the thing, wouldn't you have invested in Amazon? Yes, there's a million things I could, but I wish I would have been like, ah.

This is only going to go up. We have an insane amount of boxes. Yes. I wonder if we have the most boxes in our neighborhood. Possibly. Next time recycling, we should take a drive. When I take Dexter for walks, I'm...

I look around. I do a great job of breaking it down and compacting everything and putting as much into like one box as possible. So when they come, it just literally pick up one box and throw it in. You do a good job. You have a box party. I have box parties. I break everything down. be fair because people are like oh because you guys are youtubers you probably file a bunch of stuff to be fair we work from home so i have to order all of our work like office and

Anything that's relating to a job, I have to order to the house. We have a baby, so we also have a lot of extra stuff for her constantly. I just ordered her a toilet. But it's also like- A training toilet. Most stuff, yes. Then our stuff. Most stuff, yes. You could go out and get it.

But also, not everything. And it's just super convenient. I have a grace with that, though. But Amazon now, you can get stuff same-day delivery. Yes. Which is insane. Being a new mother was very convenient, getting delivery. I would say like, yeah, pandemic. I had astronomical respect for people that were doing deliveries because that was all the only way you could get most stuff. Yeah. Being a new mom and dad.

And we could like barely leave the house and we're exhausted. They were godsend to people that are sick or elderly. It's just extremely convenient. I will say, Oh, that's what I was going to say. My mom. Okay. So the older generation.

Talking to you parent, all the parents that are listening to our podcast, all of our parents. I mean, we're just parents in general, older parents in general. Not to say that you guys are old. I'm going down older than us, generations older than us. Every time I talk to my mom and I'm like, yeah, I got to get this. She's like, oh, why don't you go to you? We should go to Target today and get it. I'm like.

it's like uh or i could just order it and it'll be here tomorrow but then sometimes she's like no no we should go we'll go out like i feel like the which I get because like when they were growing up, they're used to it. I can't tell you how many times I'm like, okay, yeah, that sounds fun. We'll go out like it is fun, but we go out and it's, we can't find the thing that we need all the time. And I'm just like, this is why if.

Okay, so for me, if I need something specific. Yeah, that's what I was saying. And or within a certain amount of time, I will go online and get it. If I want to just like shop for fun and like look around. That's different. I do like doing that in person. If there's not something I specifically need, I just kind of want to like have a day out with my mom or your mom or like myself or Melody and just wander around. There's some things you want to go like clothing.

uh groceries groceries sometimes you want to go out and get yourself and try it on whatever but oh yeah clothing is a big one but at the end of the day if you like if you're buying the same brand or you know your size well yeah you can just get it

groceries it's just super convenient to have all right so if you go to a grocery store you're gonna spend a minimum an hour there right yeah plus you're driving you know plus or minus and you know like around an hour and a half to two hours minimum yeah total getting it shopping dealing with all the people hopefully they have it yeah or you just go on a website and you can chill build your grocery cart throughout the day and then boom and it comes yeah we started doing that when i would

Even when we worked in an office, we would do that because I was like, either I'm going to spend a chunk of my weekend, my only two days off of the whole week, I'm going to spend grocery shopping or at the end of the day when I'm exhausted getting home.

Or I can do it while I'm at work. And then when I get home, they're delivered and I just put them away. And so you're someone who likes to take your time when you're shopping, look at the labels, check everything out. I get to do that online. Now you do it online and it's and also to go along with that. Why?

things easily yes why i prefer to buy most things online is i can look at reviews i can look at specifics if i'm at a store and i'm looking at a bunch of things and i'm just going off whatever like just reading the what the the well that's like Your dad, who's probably listening right now, I remember when we used to order, he was like, well, how do you know what?

sell-by date they're going to pick for you. I was like, that's a risk I'm willing to take on for the convenience factor. They're going to give you good food. Not always. I've gotten some every now and then. I'm like, this avocado is bad.

Yes. But I feel like they're going to try and give you. The majority of the time, yeah. Because then they can get, it can get back to them. Like, hey, you gave me all bad food. Yeah. And that's, they're not going to want to have to deal with that problem. Yeah. And it also is providing more jobs for people. Yeah, I told Bobby I always have this like, I don't know, I always feel bad when I order groceries online. He goes, why? There is somebody who's employed to do that job. If nobody...

was ordering online, that person would not have a job. And I was like, well, I guess. But I still feel bad. You're providing jobs. You're giving a delivery driver a job. You're giving the person who has to go and pick the order a job. Yeah, I always give them a really good tip, too, because I feel like if it's something I could do and you're saving me time, I will give you a good tip. They deserve it. Yeah.

Like you did the thing that I did not want to do. So you deserve this. Yeah. But. I mean, that's when we get to the downsides, though, obviously there's a. Not everybody, it's not worth it for everybody to get delivery or whatever because there is definitely an upcharge.

absolutely there's a cost more and the cost is more like they upcharge you for the what kind of goes along with when we're talking about like restaurants and stuff and people not tipping like you have to factor all that in and i noticed like when we go when we get food

where let's say it costs $50 and then all of a sudden you look at it and it's like, whoa, this is now like $70, almost $80. Yeah, because they give you all these different fees and stuff. There's the fees that they charge for the delivery and then you tip them well and it's like, oh crap.

You know, thank you. There's been a couple of times we ordered something. I was like, what? Like, this is not worth it. Yeah. I mean, you can factor in like, all right, I got to go spend some money on gas, travel, take time, whatever. At the end of the day, it all works out. Another thing we get delivered, which is, I think.

super convenient is like meal prep food why are you looking at me no i was just waiting i thought you were like no no i just want to say it's like another facet of getting things delivered that is saving us time that yes we could do it and it's costing us more money but it's all about time if you're i think that's what it really breaks down to for most people if we found let me preface why we started doing meal delivery though we

For those of you that don't know this, because a lot of people think that YouTubers don't do much work, I work normal hours in my, if not longer hours. I think you work more than normal hours. By the time I wake up, get ready, come down. You're always on.

yeah you're not it's not like you clock in and clock out you were literally always having to there was a time where in between working i would have to go upstairs and try to make something come down and then by the end of the day usually exhausted because i'm yeah on constantly i can't that's the one i always say i was like that's the one thing i kind of miss from having an office job if i wasn't feeling it one day i could literally go in and just kind of like

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eating and cleaning everything, or I would grab something unhealthy or order food because I just didn't have the time to do it. And then the same thing would happen with dinner. So then we realized if we ordered the meal prep.

things like in bulk it really wasn't that much more money than us buying everything you're basically paying back for the time that buying it cooking it clean it yeah there's not much to clean because all you're doing is rinsing the thing and recycling it it really comes down to like saving time and where is that time some people enjoy cooking great we enjoy cooking too but i don't i think that's one thing i did not we don't enjoy doing it every day

But like, I don't really, I enjoy somebody else cooking for me. Okay. I mean, I like baking. Yeah. I mean, I like cooking too, but every day, that's the thing is when you work from home every day, you're.

cooking and making every meal so that's why some people are thinking oh like it's so it's not that easy when you have to do it every time and understand a lot of people like but you can do it like yeah once a week yeah a lot of people will like prepare their lunch for their job or like breakfast but

Like at the end of the day, like you're doing everything at home. And after a while, it's like, I don't know, it becomes very tedious and time consuming and being able to short, you know, have to give yourself that time to just boom, put it in the microwave, heat it up. And you know, you're getting is, you know, we get healthy food. Just makes it easier. And again, that too. Everything's pre portioned out. Yeah. Again, we could be doing this. You'd have to. But again, with how much like working.

on the weekend the last thing i want to do is spend one of my entire days that i could be spending like doing fun things with you in reality food prepping grocery shopping like so you do a trade-off it's like which would you rather would you rather have your time or would you rather have money. And obviously a lot of people don't have the luxury of having that option. It's like, I don't have time or money and I need to like, just get it done. Yeah.

And I mean, I've been in that spot as well. Like we didn't have money and we didn't have time and we made it work. But like, yeah, it's, I don't know. It's like, um, it's, uh, I'm trying to think there's all these like financial shows I've been watching on YouTube. And the biggest thing, all these people like don't have any money. And when he goes through their reports, it's all like food delivery. Yeah. So I think it's like a.

It's definitely a very good thing, like I said, for elderly people or during COVID. Just busy people. Busy people or people that are parents who can't leave the house with their kids easily. But it could also be a detriment because it's so easy. You're like, eh, I'll just do it. Yeah. Like, because there's definitely times I've done it and I'm like, I definitely could have like.

I definitely had time and energy to make something. We pick up food every now and then, too. It's not like we do it all the time. What do you mean pick up food? Like go out to pick up food at the restaurant. Oh, yeah. Go shopping ourselves. If it makes sense. Yeah.

But yeah, I'm just saying like, if you want to get to like the dark side of it. Go ahead. I have found that it definitely keeps me from going. Well, it could be good and bad, but like I. It keeps me from wanting to go out into society, which is both good and bad. Yeah, I think it's good. Because sometimes it can be draining and like.

Sometimes you deal with terrible people and then you're like, why am I even going out and doing or it's super packed and busy and you broke the risk of getting sick or whatever. Um, but then it also runs the risk of like, I could literally stay in my house all day, every day, survive and not, I mean, that's what we did during COVID. Yeah. Like we may, that's what happened. But, um,

Yeah, it also can like reinforce the fact that people don't need one another, which I find is like a really bad thing that's happening. Well, it's the human interaction aspect that is diminishing from a lot of people's lives. Yes. Because we're from home. you know, ordering food, ordering this and that. It's just that it's changed society. And like we, you know, like most things, there's positives and negatives to that. Yeah. Well, the other bad thing is like.

A lot. Well, a lot of people like blame Amazon, which rightfully so for like taking over a small company. Oh, like, do you have on there about ghost kitchens that we just learned about? No. Oh, you can talk about it. Eddie Burback. There you go. B-U-R-B-A-C-K. The deceptive world of ghost kitchens. Yeah. Watch that video. It was extremely good. He did such a good job with it. It was.

very like entertaining entertaining and informational he yeah very good job um but i learned something that basically with like the rise of grubhub and seamless and all those other food delivery places um Whereas some mom and pop shops and things have kind of like, I feel like most of the places we order from are smaller businesses. Yeah, non-chains. Non-chains. Diners. Yeah, diners.

like the what's it called Chinese place that we order from is a small, like not a chain. Yeah. Not a chain. Um, like we try, we try to help smaller businesses. We're not big chain restaurant people. Yeah. Um, but. There is this thing going on on Grubhub now where the like ghost kitchen. I'm trying to think of the easiest way to describe this.

places will look like mom and pop shops? Or just like small, yeah. Or like non-chain. Or like small business, non-chain, things you haven't, like places you haven't heard of yet. Like a burrito place or a... Or a grilled... Thrilled cheese. Yeah. Or a burger. A lot of them are like burger places. And you're like, oh, this is just some like small little burger shop. Yeah. They're not. They're basically big corporations that buy out these like.

mass production kitchens and house like multiple fake restaurants in them. And like you got to watch the video. He deep dives into it way better than me. Or that I can. But what's funny is after we watched that video, I looked on Grubhub and I found a couple of the places that he pointed out were actual ghost kitchen restaurants. The one I remember is Thrilled Cheese. Yeah. And basically what they're doing is they're forcing out all the competition by.

they offer, they over-saturate the market with all these places. Like, oh, this is like some cool little burger spot. And it's like, nope, it's just- But it's the same menu. It's the same, it's all the same food. Exactly. Repackaged to like- Look like it. So like he found one kitchen in L.A. I think housed. What was it like 77 restaurants? Yeah. So, yeah, what they're doing is they're trying to like, yeah, oversaturate the market. So people think they're ordering from all these other like.

random restaurants and whatever. And they're not. It's one big corporate kitchen. Or it could be like a Friday's or like a corporate chain restaurant. Oh, yeah. Like a TGI Friday's that is pretend is pretending to be some small little place. And it's like, nope, they're just making the burger there. Or like, you know.

Mr. Beast had Beast Burger and the first thing he showed was like his own restaurant. And he's like, oh, you can order it wherever you are in like the United States. I didn't know that either. Like when we ordered it. Yeah. There's no storefront. Yeah, there's no storefront. Except for the American Dream mall. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, I get any chance where there's opportunity, somebody's going to. I think what a lot of this boils down to is that it's a shift in the market. It's a shift in how things are done. And whether you look at it as a negative or positive, and I understand if they're just saturating the market and destroying small businesses, yeah, that's not good. But at the same time, you have to realize...

This is the way it's going. This is the way the economy, this is the way the market is going. And the mom and pop shops have to advance with it as best they can. Yeah, but I don't think you can keep up with. corporation nobody's going to be able to keep up with a corporation i think as consumers if you care about i think what they have to do is a better job of marketing i think grubhub

Well, like his suggestion was Grubhub needs to be more transparent about what is coming out of a restaurant and what is coming out of like a ghost kitchen, which I agree. And I think consumers will become more aware of that and not, you know, a lot of people are aware.

I wasn't. I mean, I knew things like that existed. Yeah, but like we order from places we know in the area that we know are physical locations. But we also, I think, you know, when we order from a new restaurant, we'll look it up and research it. Yeah.

Which I think more people have to do. Oh, yeah. But I understand like younger people who just say, oh, there's this cool new thing I'm going to order from. It has good reviews or whatever. Yeah. Also, they might it might be cheaper. I don't know. I haven't looked at like why. They're more. like why people would order from a place they did not, they don't know and never heard of. Yeah. I feel like I wouldn't like, I would either order from a chain if that's what I was feeling.

or a local place. A restaurant that you're familiar with, you know, you've either been there or- I mean, I guess, or unless you're like new to the area and you're like, oh, this is maybe like a cute little, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I just think- In general, the food industry, it's a tough business.

Oh, yeah. It's like one of the hardest ones. It's funny because when we were first watching this video, I was like, oh, wow, this is actually really good. It's like you have a central location for all this food to go and it's like all being controlled. But one of the other issues is that they don't have the same food and safety regulations. That's crazy. They said there could also be restaurants that got like violate health and safety violations.

for their restaurant but then if they're doing a ghost kitchen for another restaurant it the rules don't apply so they can still operate even though they have food in like that's gross yeah again like i said it's just safety violations it's just a shift in the market and

We have to, you know, evolve with it. Hopefully it'll catch up, but like the regulations and stuff. But, you know, at the same time, it offers a lot of convenience. One of the cool things I think about ordering from something like Grubhub is being able to like track your food. Like, all right, I see my driver.

They're at the restaurant now. They're picking, you know, when it's coming. It's not just you order from like a pizza place. Like, I will be there in 30 minutes. And it's like, all right, well, you're not here yet. Or we order Chinese food. And it's like, all right, it's been it said it'll be here in an hour.

It's 15 minutes past that. All right, I guess I'll call. And every time you call, they're like, oh, it's almost there. We just got it. But there's been some times where they didn't get the order. They're like, oh, we didn't see the ticket. We're going to put it together now. And, you know, it happens. Mistakes happen.

But I think having that tracking and having someone go and get it, you know, it's good. Like, you know, like I said, everything has negatives and positives to it. That's what this whole podcast is. The yin and yang. Good and bad. But I think another positive is providing jobs for people. Yeah. And I know a lot of and I believe some like Uber Eats and stuff, people can go pick up somebody and drive them someplace and then.

at the same time they can then they can go get food it's you can decide to take a job or not yeah you can decide what hours you feel like working or not which is a nice perk yeah and then obviously like the tips are an issue and sometimes people don't get tips i saw some video the other day of a guy who did like a uber eats and they brought the food there and they didn't give me any tip and it's like all right well yeah don't be a jerk and

don't tip someone who just literally went, got your food, came and. Yeah, I don't know how people do that. Like, don't tip somebody for doing something that they could have wanted. Yeah. You know, people take advantage of stuff. It is what it is. I think it's the same. I have the same argument as when we did restaurant, the restaurant thing. Yeah. As far as tipping your server. Yeah. You got it.

take care of the people who are going out and doing the job for you. No, I meant like just in general, I don't like tipping culture and I wish people were just paid better. See, I would rather. Yes, I agree. Well, to be fair, I guess delivery could be a different way because they could literally like.

just leave with your food if they're already getting paid i guess that's it would depend how they now to kind of like start shifting a little bit some of the like creepier sides or thoughts that have crossed my mind when it comes to getting your food delivered is that it's gonna ruin food delivery for me no i'm sure you've considered this is people messing with your food yeah but it can happen obviously well

One of the things I realized could do it at a restaurant too. Yes. But also, but also if someone, if you're ordering your food on like rubber or something and you get sick or like poisoned or whatever it may be. Like it can be tracked back. Oh yeah, it can easily be tracked back. Well, that was the same with like Uber drivers too. There's always like somebody disappears and you were their Uber driver. Yeah.

They're going to easily be able to be like, oh, yeah, we tracked her phone and like the last thing she used was this. Yeah. And you picked her up. What happened? But yeah. Yeah, it's definitely crossed my mind, especially when you get your bag and like the seal thing that's supposed to be. Oh, this wasn't tampered with is like broken. You're like, oh, shit. Like you think that sometimes they like they know that you got like fries or something that they open. Oh, I'm sure it's happening.

I'm sure it's happened before. You pick up McDonald's. I always think I'm like, I wonder what I would do. Snag a couple fries. Reach in right here. I don't have to break the seal. I'm just reaching and take a couple fries. They'll never know. It's definitely happened. Oh, yeah. As the holidays approach, it's time to return to the classics. Flaky pie crusts, perfectly browned butter, and cookies with just the right texture. And one ingredient you cannot compromise on is Kerrygold butter.

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crazy encounters is what is it's funny because I'm always scared of the people coming to our house to that's why when they implemented like before the pandemic there was really no like leave my food at the door and don't contact me yeah But then after the pandemic, they implemented that and I love it. Yeah, I think it's great. Not everybody listens to it, but I would say the vast majority of people will drop it and go. But it's funny because I'm scared of some of the people that would come.

Like just not just strangers coming to your house and knowing where you live. But then also on the flip side, I can't imagine like what some of the drivers also encounter like going to creepy. I got some stories. That's most of what my stories are is some strange drivers perspective. Yeah.

Most of my stories are of the drivers. The one weird encounter I had here was some guy dropped off our food, but then like wouldn't leave, even though we had, we had, uh, it was when Mellie was like a baby and they, I don't know if I was. No, you were home. You were downstairs in the basement and I went to go get the food, but he like wouldn't leave. So I was in his car. No, he was like standing in the entryway like.

He like rang the doorbell was like waiting. I was like, oh, he didn't listen to the instructions. I'm just leaving it. So then I went out like I was waiting and he was like standing there forever. And then as I was going out, he started finally walking down the stairs. I should have just waited a couple of minutes. And then I came.

I was like, oh, thank you. And he was like, yeah. And then he asked me a question about some, oh, one of the cars or something. And I was like, yeah, I don't know. Like, I forget what he asked me. He just asked me like a random question. And he was like, oh, he's like. Okay, have a nice day. About like our cars? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it was my old car, not that car. It was like the Fiat or something. And I was like, I forget what he asked. I was just like, yeah.

leave me alone i was just like i gotta get back my baby's inside like and he was just like a weird dude like he just gave me weird vibes and then he left and then the whole rest of the night was like oh my god he knows where we live and he knows That's why I was like trying to say I don't have a baby or anything like I'm very I try to be very like closed off with when strangers come to the house and not.

for any other reason besides like just don't want to give them too much information I want to give them too much information because you never know like what somebody's intentions are for sure especially when you have like multiple different strangers come to your house to like deliver stuff yeah

So not not a super fan of that just because I have anxiety, but I also understand the necessity and that it's like a small percentage of somebody that like would actually want to do you harm. Yeah. But most people just being.

we're trying to be friendly. Yeah, or that. That's why I always feel bad. I'm like, I want to make connections with people, but I'm also like very scared of everybody. Yeah, you're just cautious. You have to be more cautious. Yeah, well, especially now that I have a child. I'm also like... Making sure. Yeah. Making sure people's intentions. Well, that I have a child. I have an online career where some people might know me. I'd be closed off because I don't know. It is like.

One of the challenges of having that is, you know, you have to consider more variables I was going to say, but coming from there, like if I was delivering food, I would love just being able to leave it at the door and run away. As long as you know you're at the right- People would see me on the cameras. I would just like-

drop it and run like here don't open the door i don't want it i don't want to see it's good you know like i think that's how it should be done as long as you know you're at the right house just boom drop it off yeah and if you have a camera security camera you can see i don't know it's just

Yeah, like I said, it's just a shift in the way we handle our food. And I understand people who don't like doing that, who would rather go to the restaurant, pick it up, interact with people. My parents. Well, just your parents.

one i'm sure most people you know some people just prefer that and that's fine but i think for me i like going to restaurants but yeah i go to restaurants to eat i don't need to go pick up the food because i'm going to interact with somebody for two seconds yeah and then leave yeah and then there's been times where like We've ordered food on the app. And then one time we had a delivery guy said he picked it up.

and dropped it off and i'm like we don't have our food and i called the restaurant and they're like yeah they never picked it up or they picked up the wrong order and i called it was our first time ordering from this place

And I was like, all right, I'm like, I live right around the corner. I can get it. No, no, no. We'll have our our person come over. I'm like, you sure? So they had they they sent their own worker to come and I gave him like a good tip because I felt bad because they were getting screwed by like Grubhub or whatever.

There's been times we ordered food and they couldn't find a driver and I had to go. Oh, yeah. We got like the salad salad. Yeah, we had and I had to go and pick it up. So it's not like.

that was that's funny so that was uber eats and i very much remember that story because we talked to them about it yeah and they were just like sorry there's not really anything we can do and we were like I forget we were saying something and we were like, OK, well, if you can't make this right, like we're never using.

Yeah. It's again or something. I think they gave us like a five dollar credit. Yeah. I have never used them since. Yeah. I stick to my word. No, we haven't used that. Give me if literally you you like cost us money and time. And you're not really going to fix it or have any solution going forward. Why would I like I can use because we know that your service is flawed. Yeah. So we never understand. But I mean, it seems like I understand, like you have no drivers. OK, then you should.

After a while of searching, after like 10, 15 minutes, there's no drivers, you know, 20, whatever you want to give it, no drivers available in the area. We can contact the restaurant, see if they can deliver it. If they can't do that, then we can change the order to pick up. We can refund you for the whatever. But yeah, it didn't work out like that. And I'd like call the place and do it myself. So.

It's not foolproof, but I would say. What's funny is we use Grubhub ever since and we've never had that issue. That was only like an Uber Eats issue. Yep. Damn you, Uber Eats. Yeah, I think it's. And this episode is sponsored by Uber Eats. I hope not.

I will say it's definitely being able to order anything on Amazon has definitely changed the way I buy stuff and being able to get it same day. There's random stuff that I can get same day, next day. Two day shipping is a thing of the past. I mean, there's some random stuff, but most things that I buy, I can get next day or same day. The crazy is when I get same day, but that's usually like.

like a necessity like diapers i've seen they'll do or and i think that's just because we have well i know they work with whole foods so some stuff that's either that may be there or i think just more distribution centers are opening up and again that comes back to like

Destroying the mom and pop shops. Yeah, they're going to take over. I mean, it's ultimate convenience. It's his master plan. Yeah. And I know like Amazon itself, when it comes to how they take care of their workers is something that. they need to get better with and drivers and they kind of like have to work insane amount. Yeah. But yeah, especially during the holidays, like Jesus. Yeah. It's pretty cool. I see the, they have the electric vehicles now. I think it's Rivian.

that they uh that they work with i've seen a couple of those trucks around and you don't even hear them like you don't hear the engine you just know what if eventually well remember they keep saying like drones and maybe someday there'll be i don't think drones will work because

They probably wouldn't allow them. It'd be too many. They can't carry that much weight. They'd have to have massive drones and then there'd be so many issues of them like trying to land and stuff. Or people trying to get them. Yeah, people getting them. Self-driving. I guess you still need someone to like.

take the pack or imagine just a robot just wally you just get yeah you get a robot assigned to your town or street well there is one i've seen one in college campuses and stuff yeah it's just like a robot it comes up to you you have to like you have to like Verify your identity and it'll open the thing. Yeah. Just crazy. Yeah. It's crazy. And I think, you know, it'll get good. It'll get better. It's just providing more convenience.

taking away jobs giving more jobs taking away jobs and it is it's it's tough it's tough to like start yeah figuring it out and learning how to it's hard i feel like one thing i've learned from this podcast is i feel like nothing is without a consequence yeah like nothing is straightforward good and nothing is straightforward bad nope well for the most part there's there's probably some stuff i'm not thinking of that straightforward good or bad

Yeah, it's I feel like, yeah, most things I'm like, God, this is a great thing. But then if you think about like the impact, you're like, I guess it could be bad. It's tough. It's tough to think about it like that. But.

I don't know. I like it. Take it for what it is. Yeah. I mean, I like it. I like being able to. Well, one of the things is like, let's say you're just at your, you know, you're, you're working, you're doing something also like, oh, I need to get this or I want to get this specific thing. Boom. Amazon.

And I'm getting it the same day or when we were having computer issues and I need a specific part. I would have to go to a computer store, which they probably would have it, but I have to drive however far off the drive. I can't go to like. Walmart or Target or somewhere close by that carries this very specific niche thing. Amazon, boom, get it the next day. I actually ordered it for overnight delivery and it was here at like 7 a.m.

Or earlier, huh? The computer I needed for the power supply to plug into the GPU. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's good. I like it. I like being able to just, oh, I need this or put something in my cart and remind me. Yeah.

That's the biggest thing is like, that's usually what I do. I'll add a bunch of stuff to my cart, but then I wait to do it all. You don't. You just depends. I wait because I want like one person coming to the house. But I've done that. And then the order gets broken up anyway.

So it doesn't really matter. I know you're trying to do like be better. I mean, yeah, because the stuff that came yesterday, that was supposed to come Tuesday. I wanted everything to come at once. Yeah. They didn't listen to me. I was trying to save you time and money, everybody. No, it doesn't always work like that. They're like, no, we don't care about that. We're just going to send every, like, packages. Oh, I will say, delivering alcohol.

Oh, yeah. It's a good thing because I can't tell you. Well, I was going to say how many times people have been drinking and they went to go get more alcohol. No, but like if if you're. somewhere and everybody's like drinking and people want more drinks you don't want somebody getting in their car which i'm sure happens like whoever's the least drunk will get in their car and go get

Drinks. We have never done that. I want to specify. It's the same as like we would usually just be like, oh, crap, we're out of drinks. Like, let's go to the hard liquor. No. But I'm saying like, I'm sure that also has been helpful to make sure that people stay off the roads if they're drinking. It goes along the same with like getting, you know, when you're out at a bar or wherever drinking.

or at a friend's house, whatever it may be, and instead of driving home, you can get an Uber, get a car, get a taxi. Are we taking Ubers into the delivery? No, just bringing it up, delivering people to and from. That's true. It is delivering people. Yeah. I think it's more just right. Delivering people. But yeah, I've we've done it a few times where it was nice. We can just buy alcohol. And again, it comes down to being, you know, you're on the website and you can have a little bit more.

time to take a look like, oh, this I want to try this or search for something that you go to the store, maybe a little harder to find or maybe the person doesn't even know where it is. But when you order it online, you know, we like it. We've done it a few times, a handful of times. Not too many times. Yeah, I say that's been good. Or if you're having, like you said before, if you're having a party or something and all of a sudden you're like, oh crap, we forgot to get it.

you and you're busy doing stuff getting ready oh i can just order it we've done that parties delivery has been awesome like party city does balloon delivery now that's a game changer because we used to go try to get balloons and they take up your whole car you can't see anything and then like Sometimes you can't fit it all. Now they have these like big bands. They just like spit everything in and bring it.

Yeah, I will say, yeah, especially I appreciate it even more because now that Melody is like full blown toddler mode, going out to the store with her is not the most fun and or relaxing experience. And I can't I don't have the time to like check things. But if I'm home, it's much easier to like if she's like quietly eating or like playing, I could just easily try to do something. All these things that people had to do beforehand were very manageable.

sometimes less manageable than other times but now you have the option you have i think that's what it boils down to for me is like i have the option yeah i can go to the store i can go buy it and there's some things you want to do that for but at the end of the day when you have the option of being able to just order something and boom it gets delivered it's great let me say i have a gripe when i go out to stores and i'm like hey i want this a lot of times they're like

Oh, you should just you'll order it online or I'll get there. And I'm like, do you have this in a medium or whatever? And they're just like, no, but you can order it online. I'm like, OK, well, I could have just did that. Why did I come here then?

I forget we did that for when we were ordering her furniture. Yeah. We went to the store to like look at it. I was like, oh, do you just like it with you? And she was like, you can. She's like, oh, you can just do it online. And then you're like 20 percent off.

What are you guys here for? Yeah. You can just look at stuff. It's a shift. It's a shift in the marketplace, shift in how we consume. I mean, I get it. It's because stores, it's less, they learn during the pandemic, it is less to operating costs. Yeah, it's less operating. They don't have to keep it in.

You don't have to like store it. Yeah. You know, where, you know, like in the back of the store or whatever. Yeah. I think it's good. It's just, we have to learn how to better utilize. My last thing is it also makes me appreciate like boutique. And or mom and pop shopping because those stores usually have stuff that are like unique and you can't easily. That's why I also still appreciate Etsy because Amazon is a lot of like mass produced. Yeah, whatever. Like.

Like there's been times I've been trying to find something that has like an aesthetic and I can't on Amazon. It's more like utility. Like I need this to do this or I need this for this. But like Etsy is more. aesthetic or whatever. And then I like going to little boutique stores is my new favorite. It's just like little towns that have little like mom pop shots that sell stuff from local places. I appreciate so much more. Because I can't get that from like Amazon or whatever.

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Shall I read some stories? Sure. All right. Let's do it. All right. So I found some stories online. People's experiences delivering mostly pizza.

all right this first one's a little funny okay all right so this person um they took a big pizza order to a college dorm it was just under 200 uh when the person went there they knew they knew the code to get into the dorm because they had been there a few years earlier and there was one code instead of like a swipe card so they knew how to get in yeah they knew exactly where the room was so they knock on the door and the guy opened the door and he said hold on and he closed the door

And then they said they heard a lot of like movement in the like tiny dorm. Then about two minutes later, they opened the door, no lights on. And in the dorm was about 15 guys, all in cloaks, holding lightsabers. And then one addressed them as. Master Jedi of the ZA technique. They were laughing so hard. They dropped one of the drinks and they ended up getting tipped $100 and they told the person they can join their club anytime. So I want to start off with a little funny one.

Oh, but I'm sure that's like a cool experience. I just saw on TikTok. Did you see the thing that was going around about the pizza delivery guy? Because he this girl ordered pizza. But I guess like the address was her old address, which is where her ex boyfriend and his new girlfriend lived. So they a pizza came like went there or something. I forget like the whole story, but there's like a ring video footage of the guy basically going to the girl who ordered the pizza's house.

To tell. And she was like, oh, my God, you went to their house. And she was like, what happened? And he's like, I have a pizza. I said, I have a pizza for. And they were like, we didn't order pizza. And he was like, it's for. And then, like, said the ex-girlfriend's name. And it started this, like, whole fight with the.

her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend that lived there so he just went to the house but like she was having a party with like a bunch of her friends so the whole time they're like dying laughing like he's like dying laughing he's like this is my last day ordering like delivering pizzas this was hilarious Oh, my God. So, yeah, I'm sure among the bad stories is probably also like funny. Oh, there's another clip, I must say, with Ring Video Doorbell.

I see both the funniest and scariest stuff I've ever seen in my life. But one of it was, did you see the one with the squirrel? The guy was like, he was like holding a pizza, like waiting to deliver it. And there was a squirrel like behind him on the archway. And the lady opens the door and the squirrel just.

jumps into the house, but the pizza guy didn't... see it yeah so all he sees is this woman like screaming and shutting the door and then like you just hear screaming in the house and he's just standing there and then he they opened the door eventually was like i'm so sorry a squirrel flew in the house he's like oh really

so good there's so many good delivery videos now a lot of crazy interactions um this one is cool this kind of goes along with our like being able to order drinks idea ideology all right so this person said He worked for a delivery company for about six years and he got an order for one single cigar. Total cost of goods was about $3 with a delivery fee of...

almost $14. Oh my God. And they said he lived all the way out in the boonies. And he also tipped the person $10. And what it ended up being was the guy was drunk and he said the delivery fee was less than a DUI.

Oh my God. I'm like, yeah, that's genius. That's how it- That too, yeah. That's taking advantage. There's probably so many dumb people that drink and are like, I'm hungry. I'm going to go get something or I want a cigar. That's a great example of someone utilizing- this new like technology that we have and it's like you want this one specific thing you can order it have it you know postmates whatever service you have a cigar a pizza whatever it may be and you don't have to risk

drinking and driving other people yeah yeah and yourself you have to pay but like his person said it's less than a dui and that's like exactly and i think that's what a lot of people don't factor in And I hate when I see like celebrities or athletes who are wealthy and can very easily afford like a car service or, you know, getting an Uber and they drive and then their whole life is ruined because they drink and drove. And it's like.

Why are there not people... I'll tell you, because people think that it can't happen to them. Yes, I understand that. That they're like, I'm fine. And I'm sure there's plenty of stories where it happens. You obviously just don't hear about it because there's no problem. But whenever I hear this... Oh, yeah. You know how many people probably drive drunk?

No, I'm saying there's probably plenty of stories of people using ride service. Oh, I gotcha. And you just don't hear about it because there's no stories. Someone called a cab or got an Uber and it was all good. But yeah, I think that just goes to show, you know, utilize it. It's better to pay for an Uber than it is to ruin your life and others. Or others. Yeah. All right. So this one's a little creepier.

I like creepy. So this person says, I delivered pizza while in college. One time I went to deliver to this one house to answer the door and they told me they didn't order the pizza. So they made sure they had the correct address.

The person who answered the door confirmed it was their address and went to ask everyone living in the house if they ordered pizza. Apparently, none of them did. So they called the number that was used and asked for the correct address. They assured me the address that the person was at was correct.

The delivery person was confused. And so was the person at the door. And the person who ordered the pizza called me again and told me they were in the shed at the bottom of the driveway. And that's when the owners of the house learned that someone had been living in their shed. for the past year oh my god imagine that did they never go in the shed no maybe it was just it could have just been a bunch of people like renting a house and they had this shed that maybe

You know, they're like, oh, this is like the owner's shed or whatever. They keep some, I don't know, lawnmowers and whatnot in it. And some homeless person or vagabond just strolling by. I can get in here. Got some shelter. That's crazy. Yeah, but like, why would you? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense, though. Why would you give the address the house not realizing that the pizza person was going to go to the house? Well, you know, they're not obviously the smartest of people, but.

I ate this sharpest tool in the shed. It was pretty smart to take advantage of that free shed, but. Yeah. For a year, you had to have been somewhat smart to not be caught. Yeah, kind of added yourself there, trying to get some pizza. Could you imagine though he ordered the pizza and was like, this is the address.

bring it to the shed in the bottom of the driveway. Like, wouldn't you have said that? That's what I would have said. I would have just been like, hey, yeah, I'm working out my shed. Can you just, there's a shed. Or I would have waited outside or trying to, oh, they're here and just intercepted them, but whoops, they forgot.

Come on, shed man. All right. So here's a be better, a scary, creepy story of what it's like to be a delivery person. So this one, this person says that at one house, there was a bunch of wind chimes. Some look. like random collection of sticks a la the Blair Witch Project. Yeah. The guy comes out when this person's delivering something, drunk and doesn't have any teeth. He mumbles something on...

How do you say? It is unintelligibly. Unintelligibly. Unintelligible. I think it's unintelligible. Unintelligibly. Yes. And they asked the delivery person if they want to come inside. Yeah, don't ever. No, that's against every place's policy. And they say, no, my deliveries are timed. And the store keeps track of the houses on the route. And he looks slightly irritated, hands them a wad of cash and takes the pizza. He didn't even count it.

He says he just noped out of there with the creepy wind chimes in the background. Interesting. I'm sure that there's plenty of very weird and creepy experiences that probably every single delivery person has had. Yeah. And that's what I think about is all like, I'm sure they appreciate the very simple, easy, or like, I always try to, if I can like go out and help them like, Oh, you have like a package or the other day when Lauren got a new computer.

The guy walked up our driveway and he delivered the keyboard because you got stuff. And he's like, oh, I got I'm like, oh, is there other? He's like, oh, yeah, I just realized. And I'm like, you got to drive up here. He's like, oh, I didn't know if I could. I'm like, yeah, drive up. He drove up here and I waited.

help them get the stuff out. So I'm sure if you are someone who delivers stuff and you're listening, I'm sure you appreciate when you have people that are helpful and when you have to encounter the weird and creepy. You just like this person said, nope out of there. All right. So this story involves the cops. So this person arrives at a home to deliver a pizza and no one's opening the door.

They wait for about two minutes and they're ready to leave. And all of a sudden, two cop cars pull up to the door and both policemen proceed to put on gloves. One goes to a trunk. One goes to his trunk and pulls out a shotgun. One of them walks up to the delivery person and says, there won't be any deliveries today. That sounds fake. I mean, it could be. Sounds very unprofessional.

Also, why do they have a shotgun? Is that the cop's weapon of choice? I thought they usually have pistols and whatnot. What's a shotgun going to do? It's good for close counters. Engagement? To murder somebody. Well, if someone was murdered and they're going into a house where someone was murdered, the murderer might still be in there. Yeah, but you still don't want to murder the murderer. If they're going to shoot you, you might have to.

I'm just saying I think a shotgun is not the way to go. I could be wrong. I'm not a police officer. Yeah, neither am I. But, you know, sometimes they have to use that. What about a pistol or something small? What do you need a shotgun for? That seems very slow. I don't know. I don't know about that, Lauren. I'm breaking down this story. Yeah. It's not real. There's no way.

It would have made more sense if they came like in raid gear. You're telling me two police officers pulled up. Is that what he said? He said two. Got out of the thing. Got a shotgun and gloves and went in. That doesn't sound right. All right. All right. I don't know. Where's the SWAT squad if they think somebody got murdered? The SWAT squad. The SWAT squad. SWAT? Are they doing SWATs? SWAT squad. SWAT team? Yeah. The team of squatters. All right. Yeah.

You know, that sounds like there's some holes in the story. Okay. I just thought it was a different one. As the holidays approach, it's time to return to the classics. Flaky pie crusts, perfectly browned butter, and cookies with just the right texture. And one ingredient you cannot compromise on is Kerrygold butter. Kerrygold butter is crafted with milk from grass-fed cows that graze on lush green pastures across family farms in Ireland.

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All right. So this person says this story is not so much awkward, but as scary. But whatever. So this person says they're a girl. And when they were delivering pizza, they were around 18 or 19. And they were pretty scrawny looking. Anyway, they had a big delivery to a guy's party in his apartment. The apartment was on the top floor. So after hauling about 10 pieces up three flights of stairs.

And they look considerably frazzled. The guy opens the door and there's about 15 guys in the apartment. And he says, I should come in and put them down the table. The person says, now I know better than just enter people's houses. but there was a table was like right by the door and like, and they're like, all right, there's no way I'm going to be able to like take the cash and like do the transaction. So like they go in with, um, the three bags of pizza.

over their arms and they take one step towards the table and they hear the door slam behind them and he locks the door and says we got one and all these guys start snickering and although it turned out to be a joke albeit not a funny one they say It was one of the most terrifying moments of their life. Yeah. Yeah, that is not a funny joke. That is not something to do to people. But yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of.

Creepy interactions like that where people freak out delivery drivers, especially, you know, someone like this who is a young female and they go and there's 15 guys and I can just like the one story that comes to bite is you remember the. The one they like made a movie about it to about the pizza delivery guy that got like the bomb strapped to him. Mm hmm. No, even crazier part about that now that I'm thinking about it is the fact that they made a movie about it, but it was a comedy.

it was a comedy yeah yeah it was like jesse eisenberg and like i forget if i watched it or if i just saw the trailer drama comedy and i remember but i think the guy died really i'm pretty sure he got blown up so that's why it's even crazier that Hey, I'm pretty sure. Damn. Could correct me if I'm wrong. But either way, I'm sure it was a traumatizing event. They made it into like a comedy movie. No, like I said, it's creepy. It's creepy when you're having to.

deliver stuff to someone's house. You don't know what's on the other side of that door. Yeah. It's almost similar to like, like police officers and they pull someone over. They don't know if this person is going to be compliant and needs to work with, or they're going to get a gun pulled on them. That's why they need a shotgun. Yeah. It took you a second to get what it was. It took me a second to understand what you were trying to say. I was referencing there.

You should Google it. Do police officers use police officers gun of choice a shot? I think it's their gun of choice. But I think when they. I was just picturing him getting out of the car and like, you know, movies, you know, when they're like. All right. His body ain't dead enough. We heard somebody got murdered in here. So it's just me and Carl. We're going to go in. Hey, delivery guy. Ain't no deliveries today. Actually, what you got there? Yeah.

Give me a minute. I'll come back. I'm surprised they didn't say something like, no deliveries today. Except you can give us the pizza. Yeah. We'll take it. Was it paid for? Yeah. Was it paid for? All right. Oh, my God. I got one more here. The shotgun police office.

So this one's another crazy experience people can have. So this person says they had to fight off a guy after delivering a pizza. He was very drunk and he thought they were a taxi. So he kept trying to get in the car. He says he literally kicked him out of the passenger side. Excuse me. Literally kicked him out of the passenger side door and he sped off into into the night. Passenger door open until.

The next hard right where it closed. Oh my God. Yeah, I'm sure that Uber drivers. I feel like at night. Yeah, it's a wild card of what you're going to get. Like if it's late at night and somebody orders a pizza, you're probably like, yeah, they're probably drunk or. So when I was one time when I was in Atlantic City with my friend.

And we were drinking and gambling and I got a little too drunk and like got sick and went to the bathroom threw up. My buddy got me an Uber to get back to our hotel. And I ended up like throwing up outside of the. window which I'm not very what a degenerate proud of but you know it happened uh I don't I can't imagine being an uber person in like a place Atlantic City Vegas any of the any party like

You got to know what you're in for. So it was funny. Like my friend, he got his Uber account suspended because he didn't pay the cleaning fee. And I was like, dude, I'll, it was like 40 bucks. I was like, I'll. give you them was like, nah, screw it. I already, it's been whatever. Oh my God. I was like, I'll use lift now. Yeah. Yeah. And I have like a certain level of like respect, but also like question.

I mean, I guess it's good money. I mean, not everyone is a drunk idiot like I was. They can, like, triple the rates and stuff. So that's why it's kind of like, I might get some weirdos, but I'll make good money. I have... I guess a story. It's not really delivery based, but, um, it's kind of, so me and my friend, we went to a concert in New York city and it was like a festival day festival.

and we're we're getting out of it and i remember talking to him because we because we were in like randall's island or one of the islands we had governor governor it was governor's i don't was one of those yeah I don't, I don't know. I can't, I think it was just a show and it was on one of the islands and we had to get, you could walk and it would take you a long time to walk back. So I remember looking at my friend and I said, how much are you willing to spend to get a car?

And I was like, like 100, like if we both pitch in 50 bucks, we'll get back to Penn Station. We can go from there. So we go over and I go up to a taxi guy and I'm like, how much to get to Penn Station? and he goes 100 bucks all right done sold so i get we get in the car this is the time when i was working at wall street so i was a little more uh assertive assertive yeah

A little more assertive with things. Angry all the time. Not so much. Yeah, that too. Yeah. Short-tempered. Short-tempered. So. The guys like we were in one of the like where people were walking and he's driving around and he some other people come up and oh, can we get into and we didn't really care.

And the driver's like, yeah, where are you going? He's like, we just need to get over to Manhattan. And they didn't talk about a price or anything. Wait, this was a taxi, not a black. Was it a black? I think it was a black car. I don't think because taxis metered. That wasn't metered. OK, it was a black car. Yeah, it was.

What are they called? Black cab? I forget what they're called. Car service, whatever you want to call it. I haven't used one of those in a long time. We used to not because as girls, they told you not to because they're not tracked. Yeah. So they get in the car. It was a guy and a girl, a couple. Me and my friend were in the back. The guy got in the front passenger and the girl got in the back. So they get in and they're like talking. And the guy, the driver wanted to charge them.

like a hundred bucks something absurd to like just literally bring them into manhattan he's It was on our route. There was no hit. And they start arguing. And we get onto like the on ramp to one of the highways. And the guy stops his car. And they're like going back. And he's like, you get out of the car. He's like yelling at him. And he's like, dude, he's like, I'm not getting out of the car. We're on the highway.

We'll give you, he was like expecting to pay like 20 bucks, 40 bucks, whatever it may be. So they're arguing and all of a sudden I like, I just like snap into it. I'm like, all right, listen, like I saw, I pull like the, I'm a, I'm a wall street broker. I'm like, this is.

I said, this is bullshit. I'm like, you're going to drive us. You're going to bring us to Penn Station. We're going to pay you whatever. You're going to charge them 20. We'll give you the extra money. I'm like, I forget exactly what I said, but I just flipped the fuse. And the guy shut up, proceeded to drive. I remember the guy being like, dude, thank you so much. And I think he gave us the 20 bucks or whatever. And I ended up giving the guy, I don't know, 125, whatever we did.

Yeah, I'm sure there's there's a lot of crazy interactions. I thought me and you were in a I mean, we're getting off talking, but I thought me and you were in one of those black cabs and they like lock the doors and we're trying to like negotiate with us back in Queens. Me and you got back there. But I had been drinking, so I was like half paying attention to you. I kind of remember, yeah.

we had agreed on a price and then he got us there yeah like the doors were locked yeah he was like yeah no like i didn't account for the toll so you have to pay me like an extra whatever and you were like i didn't have the cash or something like that yeah because we said we were like well you agreed to this amount this is all

the cash we have yeah and he oh yeah and he kept right he was like he's like no no like i'm sure you have more and we're like no and you literally are like you're like showing him your wallet you're like you literally have this cash i don't know what you want me to do and then he eventually gave up yeah

But yeah, I don't ever take black cabs. They'll always pull up and they'll seem really nice. And they're like, don't worry, I'm going to give you a better price than a taxi. Where are you trying to go? Double, triple the price. And then they lock you in the car and demand more money once you get to the place. Yeah. Little sidetrack story, but similar-ish. It's a person deliveries. Person delivery. Unmarked person deliveries. That's our thoughts on delivery.

At the end of the day, something we use a lot and I like it, but there's definitely a lot of creepy aspects of it. Mostly, I think it's mostly creepy for the people who are delivering. Having to interact with all the random people that they have to bring stuff to. And dogs. Yes. Yes, dogs. I do feel bad. I feel like if you are terrified of dogs, you can't be a delivery person. No, probably not ideal.

I mean, and I'm scared of certain like dogs. I don't know that are barking at me like crazy. Like Dexter, I'm sure it sounds scary. And there's plenty of other aspects that we didn't really cover. I mean, you just have all like, I see the other day there was just like a pretty young kid.

I would assume in his early 20s at best, driving a very large Amazon truck. And I'm like, this kid is just driving this huge truck around. I always wonder if this was around when I was younger, if I would have liked doing it.

I probably would have been too scared. My mom probably would have been like, you're not going to strangers' houses. Yeah. I'm sure there's plenty of other like more. Because it's kind of cool because you can kind of make your own hours. Kind of. But it's still a pretty intense. schedule that you got to keep to and i don't think it's that easy delivering stuff oh i did wouldn't say it was easy yeah i just meant i would like the flexibility of the hours yeah i mean could be

But I also don't know how Amazon works anymore. Like, cause we get different Amazon drivers all the time. So do people just have different routes? Do people just have the same routes? Do people like, I don't know. I don't know how it works. I think it's just people just work different. shifts different times and it's just yeah it's a crazy ecosystem yeah what's even crazier is like or sometimes like we'll get an amazon delivery in the morning

And then get another Amazon delivery later in the day from a different person. There was a lot. There was a lot of. So like, well, how is it not? I guess it's coming from different warehouses. There was a couple stories. I thought I had one in there. I might have gotten rid of it. Basically that. an Amazon delivery guy had people running after them. He was like, Oh, you have my package. You have my package. Like, give it to me. And they're like,

Like I may or may not. Like there's other people that can see like there's two other delivery trucks in the area. They're like, no, it says it's on this and it just dropped. And then the one story was like the person got like a ding on their phone and like package was delivered. And they're like, oh.

it wasn't another truck why didn't you tell me it's like i literally did like i've only done that one time not an amazon truck but my mom and i chased after a in florida we chased after a fedex truck i think because she was getting her computer delivered And I think we had missed it. Like they didn't deliver it. So then we were like, we got the missed notification. And then we were like, oh, we were in the golf cart. That's what we were doing. And she was like, oh, I think.

She was like, they usually hit the neighborhood over from us. She was like, let's just drive over there and see if they're there. And sure enough, we saw the FedEx truck. So we like.

like went up to, I remember because it was like during the pandemic. So we like stayed far away and we were just like, listen, like we really just, we were like, we really need this computer. Cause I think like tomorrow, the next day we were going to be gone too. And we were like, my, like my daughter needs to set it up for me.

And then he said, OK, and she was like, I can show you my ID so that you can see it matches the name. So he did. He was like, yeah, he was nice. He was like, yeah, yeah. He's like, let me see your ID. And then like got us the package or whatever and had to sign off. But yeah. We kind of chased down a delivery. It's a pretty crazy job. I'm sure, like I said, we just scratched the surface of the craziness and the creepiness of it, but something to think about. Yeah.

Be nice to your delivery people. I wonder if people. Like. I don't know. Like I. I was trying to think if more people think it's a good service than a bad service. I would assume more people think it's good. I would think so. I think people love it. I do, but I feel bad for loving it sometimes because I feel like it's like extra money that I could not be spending. And it's like time that I could be spending in society. But then at the same time, I don't want to. I just want to stay home.

I don't think it's nice and safe and easy. It's definitely not something that's going to be going away anytime soon. So speaking of which, I forgot we didn't finish our conversation. Are we ordering lunch or? No, I think we're just eating food around the house.

because we are because we forgot to order our meal delivery service you have to order by a certain time to get it delivered and yeah we always forget we always forget the next day yeah it's fine or i'll come tonight it's coming later today it's coming

Yeah, I guess I guess that's all I got on delivery. I like it. I like it. I think it's just something that we have to learn. Although I think the, to live with the downside is Amazon's probably going to take over society at some point. Yeah. They now have grocery stores, bookstores, and which is. I would say the bookstore is kind of just like twisting the knife in the wound of like putting all these bookstores out of business. And then they're like, hey, we're going to start physical bookstore.

Yeah, now they have Amazon Fresh locations. And I just learned they have Amazon clothing retail locations because I just saw my friend Cupquake went to go see the first one that's in L.A. It is amazing, though. Because you literally go there and they only have one size of like it shows you every color of an item that they have. And then they it's only comes in like one size. And then what you do is on your phone.

you like scan the item and you say what size and what color you want and they'll just like deliver it to a dressing room for you so you don't have to like carry it around with you when you're shopping.

oh yeah i forgot i haven't showed you this i showed my mom um so yeah so like you'll go to so all you're doing is browsing so you know when you go to like clothing stores you'll see like 10 of the same item because it's all the different like sizes you'll see one of that item and you'll also like so everything's spaced out more you can see multiple like lots of different clothing items they also like

have like an influencer section where like influencers get to pick out their favorite styles and whatever, or they have like.

It's crazy. Like she was testing out. So on your phone, you don't have to carry anything. You're just like, I want to try on this. Or you can order it straight from your phone if you're like, eh, I have to go somewhere after this. I want to play bags. Yeah, or you know your size. Yeah, so you could try it on and be like, yeah, I'll just order it. Then you go to your dressing room and...

Like you never see anybody. It's all like behind the scenes. So they'll like rack everything behind the dressing room and then they close the door and you can't open it until like the other door is closed so nobody can like peek in on you with changing. And then if you try something on and you're like, eh, I want to see the other color or I want to see a different color, there's a big touchscreen in the dressing room and you just pick what one you want.

And they'll put it in the little slot for you again. So you don't have to leave the room. And if you say like, I like this shirt, I'm going to like, keep it. I want to keep it or buy it. Like you put it on the thing and it'll say. these skirts go with that shirt or these shoes go with the shirt. Would you like us to bring that? Like, I was just like, Oh my God. So, you know, my mom, my mom would be the like,

the perfect candidate for this because she would go in and be like i like this chair but i don't know what it goes with like what there's literally a computer system that's like hey this goes well with this this and this what do you like which would you like to try yeah that's awesome see i think that's one of the like good ways that

technology has learned to. I mean, it kind of stinks. It's like Amazon because it's just one company getting bigger. But I'm hoping maybe that means other companies will be like, yeah, this is a much nicer, simpler. Yeah. That's like when I go to Forever 20 Wonder stores like that, I get so overwhelmed because there's just so much stuff. Yeah.

And then they don't have your size. And you don't have your size. And then you got to spend time like looking through like this is so much. And then you have to carry it. Like usually if I'm like going legit shopping, I like have a whole armful of stuff I want to try on. You don't have to do that. You just.

Put it on your, and then if you don't even want to carry a bag the rest of the day, you can just place the order and it'll be there by the next day. It's crazy. I can't handle it. It's pretty cool. I like it. It is the future.

Like Melody, when she goes, when we go... I don't know, dress shopping someday for like an event she's having. It's all going to be like, it's going to be augmented reality. You don't have to try anything on anymore. It'll take your exact measurements through like cameras. It'll let you see what it looks like. And then it'll make, you don't even have people like.

it'll, computers will measure everything. They just like take a picture of you when you come in and then they're like, these are the dresses we think would fit your body type best. And then you just like go through and you're like, I want to try this one on. I mean, I know a lot of this stuff like takes the human.

element and aspects out of experiences but if it works better and it's i don't know provides a better experience because i can't tell you how many times i've gone to a clothing store and somebody has helped me pick stuff like the not often yeah like i'm not gonna be like hey which because everything's subjective but if you have a computer then you can have multiple yeah and i've seen there's no bias and i know for like

uh the male perspective getting suits getting going to a store going like men's warehouse getting something tailored you they have where you can like do it online and you can use like your phone to like take measurements or you do your measurements and the phone can actually work with it so yeah there's great implementations of it and then boom gets delivered but yeah crazy those are our thoughts i just had to share that anybody who wants to see more go check out

I think it's on our Tiffyquake channel. I'm just like promoting YouTubers today. It's on our Tiffyquake channel, I think, where she tried the new Amazon style, I think it's called. I forget what the story's called. I like it. But check it out because it's crazy. It's cool. But yeah, as always. Remember. Oh, damn him. I forgot. Remember, Lauren, how to do our outro. Say it again. And remember. Everything is creepy.

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