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  • A strange but sucky delivery

    On Tuesday night we kinda got slammed the whole night. deliveries were running a little behind as there were only 2 of us drivers on duty at the time. I get a triple run.

    I get the the first stop at an apartment building. I get to the door and ring the doorbell. I hear the doorbell over a blaring TV. I wait......... I ring the doorbell again. I wait........ TV continues to blast out sound. I knock HARD on the door. again I wait......... TV continues to blast out sound. NO one answers

    OK time to call the customer as I have to get going for my next 2 deliveries. I dial the number and voicemail immediately picks up.

    Now I am going to stop here. most people have a standard voicemail greeting such as "HI I am unable to answer my phone at this moment. Please leave me a message and I will get back to you." or a variation thereof.

    NOT this lady. her greeting went a little "above and beyond" as follows: (there is NO paraphrasing here as I am typing the EXACT words she used in the greeting)


    LALALALALA FUCK YOU I don't FUCKING feel like talking to anyone right now. LALALALALA IF you want to leave me a FUCKING message GO right ahead.

    OK???? I leave my standard message about attempting to deliver an order to a person at this number, no one seems to be answer the door at this time and if they want their order delivered please call <pizza place> at 123-4567. thank you <hangup>

    I go on to my next deliveries. while one the way I call the store to let the MOD know about the situation.

    Fast forward to 90 minutes later. I am on another multi-run when my phone vibrates. I fish it out of my coat pocket and do not really recogise the number. I am not answering it and the phone goes back into my pocket. after I make one delivery I realize the number is that of Miss Potty Mouth and I have a voice mail.

    Miss PM is calling to tell me to deliver her order. I immediately call the store (while stopped at my last delivery) to let the MOD know that Miss PM will most likely call the store for her order.

    when I get back I find out the Miss PM DID indeed call for her order. MissPM ecxplains that she fell asleep and want her order NOW. THE MOD explains that she will be able to get her order (made new and fresh because we chucked her order after about 45 minutes) in about an hour because that is what the current estimated delivery time is running (we WERE really busy that night). Miss PM throw a hissy cussing fit and hangs up on the MOD

    the two strange things are
    1. WHO IN the heck puts that kind of voice mail greeting on their phone or answering machine?????

    2. Miss PM ordered a pizza with NO CHEESE only sauce. OK I can understand that some people have an allgergic reaction or are lactose intollerant BUT the crust she ordered (at $11.99 to boot) has string cheese rolled up in the crust and cut up into bite-sized pieces. basically she got thin breadsticks with a little burnt and nasty sause (sauce only on pizza crust does not cook all that well) with some crust with cheese inside;.
    I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
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  • #2
    Blech. Sounds nasty.

    The vm greeting I had is, "You have called a number for which the voicemail box has not been setup. Goodbye," meaning I can't even leave a message.

    This happens to me ALL THE TIME when I'm working hospice triage and trying to return a phone call to a patient or family member.

    Sometimes I'll take a catnap when waiting for a pizza order. I nap on the living room couch with the TV off, the porch light on, and instructions given with the order to ring the doorbell (mine's LOUD . . . the dead couldn't sleep through it).

    But Miss Potty Mouth has to own this: if she hadn't fallen asleep with the TV on (how DO people do that, anyway?) then she would have gotten her pizza fresh.
    They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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    • #3
      My mom used to fall asleep with the TV on; if we tried to turn it off she'd wake up and mumble "I was watching that."

      Voicemail: I called back a customer's expiring ad to see if she wanted to renew it and got one of those "this customer has a voicemail box which has not been set up yet." So apparently her ad ran the entire time with no way for people to leave a message. I wouldn't be surprised if she called to complain that she didn't sell her stuff.
      When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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      • #4
        Quoth Panacea View Post
        Blech. Sounds nasty.

        The vm greeting I had is, "You have called a number for which the voicemail box has not been setup. Goodbye," meaning I can't even leave a message.

        This happens to me ALL THE TIME when I'm working hospice triage and trying to return a phone call to a patient or family member.
        This happens all the time to me too... People will leave a message with my after-hours emergency phone service. Then they won't answer the phone when I call back and don't have voicemail.


        Then they will call AGAIN and complain that no one called them back.

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        • #5
          Quoth MoonCat View Post
          My mom used to fall asleep with the TV on; if we tried to turn it off she'd wake up and mumble "I was watching that."
          Back in the goodle daze, TV stations signed off when "Here's Johnny" wasn't here anymore, (10PM-1AM) and didn't broadcast any programs until 5-6AM, just a test pattern.


          "beeeeeee.... click.

          "Turn it back on, I was watching it.

          "But dad, it's Conelrad!

          "That's a good show. Turn it on.

          /Cosby
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