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  • As a delivery driver

    *** NOTE I am putting this here because it does not really involve SCs but it does in a detached sort of way *******


    you know you know your deliver area waaayyyy too well (and you have been doing delivery a long time) when:

    You are watching the noon news on a local TV channel when they flash a picture of a group of 3 houses (on the screen for at most 2 or 3 seconds) while the presenter voice-over tells of shots fired the night before. You immediately know what street AND the exact addresses of said houses way before the camera zooms in for a close-up of the front of the houses AND the "kind of" people that populate the neighborhood AND you know the names of everyone in said houses by heart (and not for good reasons).

    Thank whatever deity none of our drivers (including me) were near that area last night (shots occurred at 4am).
    I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
    -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


    "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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    I remember when I pulled up to an address to deliver a newspaper in the midst a shooting. I didn't realize it was a shooting until I heard about it on the news later. When I got there there was some guy booking it down the street being chased by a couple other guys, and there were at least two dozen others milling about the parking lot talking about a shooting. Hubs was with me so he delivered the paper while I stayed with the car and we moved on. Turned out the first guy we saw running had apparently just shot some kid in the arm.

    That was an...interesting apartment complex to deliver to. I don't currently deliver there and I'm okay with that.
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    • #3
      You also know you've delivered in a specific area too long when your patrons RECOGNIZE not only YOU, but YOUR CAR, and ask how your family is doing!!

      I have two houses like this, one is a fairly young family, and the other is a young "Baby-Boomer" in her seventies. I deliver to them both at least once every week to two weeks.

      Mrs. Neurnaker ((Nuuur-nacker)) asked me last time, "Hello, young man! Is your mom still having those awful headaches?"
      It threw me, until I remembered Mrs. Neurnaker's husband has seen my mom at the outpatient infusion center, and Mom talks about me sometimes...
      Then she gave me my BEST tip ever: a paper plate LOADED with homemade sugar cookies and a $20!!
      "So you can get you poor little car fixed," she said. "And do share one or two of the cookies."
      "Yes, Ma'am." Was all I could say.

      The young family has three "behbehs" who call me "Mr. Pizza Guy"... Kids are cute when they're between 3 and 5 years old...

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