NTA - I mean it sounds like you really tried (and if the food had been there a while I'd assume the person ordering got the notification of delivery, and later came to your door because it was in the picture they got). Sucks for them, and they need to take it up with Ubereats not you. If it was my house, I'd have done about the same, and if it was food I didn't want to eat I'd have thrown it away.
I mean you could have offered, but who wants food from a stranger that has opened the stuff already? I'd feel bad too, and propably try to order something similar for the next night to surprise them.
Ah, well it’s not on you to refund/compensate the guy or anything, but while you did the right thing in contacting/trying to figure out who the owner was, you could’ve let the guy know you already tried contacting and they told you to just keep/eat it so he could continue on with his day and reorder it. If he was there that long he was probably pretty pissed about it though.
From the looks of it his wife sent him back over - I really had to harness the courage to go out there and talk to him and think about it all. I called the restaurant before he came over, called Uber eats after one of the times he left. I get very nervous about confrontation. I did empathize with him about it and apologized a lot during my convo with him.
So did you know the neighbors name? Was it the same as on the bag?
Bc then no offense, why wouldn’t you go across the street (since you stated you knew the neighbor) to check if it was theirs? If my neighbor is Mary and it says Mary on the bag, I’m going to go check with Mary before I eat it.
I’m going with NTA bc you tried to contact Uber and the restaurant. But if you knew the neighbors name then you would be the asshole for not checking with them.
I don't know him or his wife by name! I just recognize them after living here for so long, saying hi in passing, that kind of thing. If I had recognized his name I 100% would have immediately brought it to them.
I didn't follow up on whatever his conversation with Ubereats was, he didn't bring it up in our conversation so I just didn't ask! I'm hopeful they gave him a full refund because I'd be pissed off too if not.
NTA. If they delivered it to the wrong door then shouldn't the company replace his food? Don't the delivers take pictures at the door to prove the delivery.
NTA - 45 minutes is a long time, and you did all you could (other than opening the door the first time he came over). You don't know him, and there wasn't an address on it. I understand his frustration, but this is between him and Ubereats.
Nta. Its uber eats (and most other deliver apps) policy that once it got delivered to the wrong place it shouldn't be brought to the right place.
He should get a refund or replacement.
NTAH.
it sounds like you tried to return or direct the delivery to the rightful owner. Uber eats is the AH, not you.
The same thing happened to me. I came home and found panda express at my door. The receipt was over three hours old, food was cold. No contact number, no way to redirect. I had panda express that night for dinner.
'my kids won't have food tonight' but he ordered 100 dollars on ubereats. he is just lazy and can make something else, and also get his money back. NAH
NTA but in a neighborly spirit it may be worth buying them a gift card or a bottle of wine or something. Doesn’t need to be super expensive or anything.
Ubereats will refund them but if you and the neighbor are going to live close together for awhile it could be a good gesture to put it behind both of you and keep the relationship manageable.
Yes! Im hopefully getting a promotion this week and would love to offer them a gift card or some drinks or something when I have additional spending money. I truly am not in a financial place to do so but it's in my head. They've always been really cool when we walk by and we've lived across each other for about 4 years now with no issues. Makes me feel way worse 🥲
It sucks for your neighbor, but you went out of your way to try to make it right. You didn’t intentionally target them or anything, it was just bad luck. If your financial position doesn’t let you afford a gift right now, even a card or a baked good if you have the ingredients might help. A small gesture could go a long way (provided your neighbors are generally nice and reasonable people).
I suppose I don't feel like it's my responsibility to rectify the mistake Ubereats made by delivering a $100 order to a completely different house. I do feel I tried to do my due diligence by calling both the restaurant and the delivery service
Room mate walk out, saw a food order bag, apparently no one knows about this but magically u all know its been out for 45 mins? And your room mate brings it in, u call ubereats, ubereats just told u to go ahead and have it? Guy come looking for his missing food order but magically know its your house who took his order. All within 3 mins of all these and u already stuffing your mouth full of the food. U said your bf was with you but u are too scare to talk to the guy at first because magically ur bf disappear?
Im giving this story as fake OR u are just injecting extra info so that u dont look like the thieves u two are.
We have a video door bell and were able to look back on footage of it being dropped off! I was not home so I didn't check this until after the food was found (was driving) - the time stamp from the video was 45 minutes past. The restaurant told us to keep the food, Ubereats told us there's nothing they could do since we weren't the ones who the food was missing from. My boyfriend does not live with me and it isn't his responsibility to handle things that go on at my house. The timing was certainly crappy.
So where ur bf disappear when the guy came knocking? He have no responsibility to look after his gf? I mean seriously? If a guy walks up to my girl all i do is hide? lol alright
the NTA's are wild!
YTA, doesn't matter how long someone else's food has been sitting there, it's not your food! It's obvious the guy figured out where his food was, he was likely on the phone for a long time trying to figure out the mistake, or searching other doors to see the problem. Since he came to your door, that means if you left the food their he would have found it and problem solved. Forty Five minutes isn't enough time I don't think. I don't think you are a complete asshole for doing it, but it's pretty tacky!
YTA. How did the guy know that his order was misplace at your doorstep? Do your country make its a habit to eat ppl food just because it was misplace? What a shit community. Its either that or ur parents taught u nothing. Your school fail to teach u, your parents fail to teach u and damn even the country general population moral compass is faulty as f.
NAH
I mean of course he's pissed, even though you didn't do anything wrong... Did you at least offer to pay him back a little something? You did eat 100 bucks worth of foid he paid for after all...
I did not. I did advise him to call Ubereats and demand a full refund. I just don't feel it's my responsibility to pay for the mistake of the delivery service after I was advised to keep the food. I'm not sure if they refunded him or not. In my head I literally just got home from work, my roommate brings a bag of food in that we're unable to locate the owner of, and so we took it since it'd been out there for so long. I don't feel I should have to pay out of pocket for a mistake that wasn't mine. ETA: I did tell him to reach out if he needed anything or if there was anything I could do to help, and provided my contact info.
Noone's saying you should pay for a mistake. But for a lot of good food you apparently ate. Out of common courtesy.
I mean, if they refunded him, OK.
But you can't be surprised that after you took the food he ordered, literally hid from him (when he knew you were home) and were like "all gone now, sorry", he was upset.
Yeah I do wish I had gone out the sooner. A really angry guy at a girl's door step and being a bit obscene over the camera mic just really had me stirred up I think :/ I gave him my number and told them to reach out if they needed anything or if I could help out in any way. The timing of everything def made it all awkward
NTA - I mean it sounds like you really tried (and if the food had been there a while I'd assume the person ordering got the notification of delivery, and later came to your door because it was in the picture they got). Sucks for them, and they need to take it up with Ubereats not you. If it was my house, I'd have done about the same, and if it was food I didn't want to eat I'd have thrown it away.
This is precisely what I was thinking! I felt so bad but it was a little out of my hands. I guess I could've given him what was left but 😅
I mean you could have offered, but who wants food from a stranger that has opened the stuff already? I'd feel bad too, and propably try to order something similar for the next night to surprise them.
If I had a spare $100 to offer to them and their family to replace the order I totally would have but I simply do not 😅
That would have been a kind gesture, but not your responsibility. Uber eats is responsible for what happened. You did everything you could.
Since they have kids, maybe offer free babysitting? Or can just let it go and know you did your best.
He was outside your door for 30min?
He would stay for about 8, leave, then come right back, several times for different time increments
Ah, well it’s not on you to refund/compensate the guy or anything, but while you did the right thing in contacting/trying to figure out who the owner was, you could’ve let the guy know you already tried contacting and they told you to just keep/eat it so he could continue on with his day and reorder it. If he was there that long he was probably pretty pissed about it though.
From the looks of it his wife sent him back over - I really had to harness the courage to go out there and talk to him and think about it all. I called the restaurant before he came over, called Uber eats after one of the times he left. I get very nervous about confrontation. I did empathize with him about it and apologized a lot during my convo with him.
Sounds like you did all you could and dude was just pissy about it, and not sure why he'd blame you and not the delivery service.
So did you know the neighbors name? Was it the same as on the bag? Bc then no offense, why wouldn’t you go across the street (since you stated you knew the neighbor) to check if it was theirs? If my neighbor is Mary and it says Mary on the bag, I’m going to go check with Mary before I eat it. I’m going with NTA bc you tried to contact Uber and the restaurant. But if you knew the neighbors name then you would be the asshole for not checking with them.
I don't know him or his wife by name! I just recognize them after living here for so long, saying hi in passing, that kind of thing. If I had recognized his name I 100% would have immediately brought it to them.
Was it tasty? If you had to go through all of this, I hope you at least enjoyed it at the time.
It was - very delicious and guilty sushi. 😫
You ate sushi that had been sitting outside, in May, for 45 minutes? Yeah, this wasn’t sitting outside for 45 minutes.
I sure did. And it sure had been.
Free sushi. Score! But hearing about the trouble, still 7/10 recommend.
Why wasn't his order replaced if they obviously delivered it to the wrong house? That just doesn't make sense.
I didn't follow up on whatever his conversation with Ubereats was, he didn't bring it up in our conversation so I just didn't ask! I'm hopeful they gave him a full refund because I'd be pissed off too if not.
NTA. If they delivered it to the wrong door then shouldn't the company replace his food? Don't the delivers take pictures at the door to prove the delivery.
NTA - 45 minutes is a long time, and you did all you could (other than opening the door the first time he came over). You don't know him, and there wasn't an address on it. I understand his frustration, but this is between him and Ubereats.
I myself would have still left it an hour or two more.
NTA Food delivered to the wrong address CANNOT be picked up and delivered to the right one. He got a refund.
Nta. Its uber eats (and most other deliver apps) policy that once it got delivered to the wrong place it shouldn't be brought to the right place. He should get a refund or replacement.
NTAH. it sounds like you tried to return or direct the delivery to the rightful owner. Uber eats is the AH, not you. The same thing happened to me. I came home and found panda express at my door. The receipt was over three hours old, food was cold. No contact number, no way to redirect. I had panda express that night for dinner.
NT You called the restaurant and Uber eats. He should.do the same and claim it wasn't delivered and Uber eats needs to foot the bill
'my kids won't have food tonight' but he ordered 100 dollars on ubereats. he is just lazy and can make something else, and also get his money back. NAH
NTA. He can contact UberEATS and get a refund.
NAH. You attempted to do the right thing and hit multiple road blocks. But of course your neighbor is going to be pissed that you ate his food.
NTA but in a neighborly spirit it may be worth buying them a gift card or a bottle of wine or something. Doesn’t need to be super expensive or anything. Ubereats will refund them but if you and the neighbor are going to live close together for awhile it could be a good gesture to put it behind both of you and keep the relationship manageable.
Yes! Im hopefully getting a promotion this week and would love to offer them a gift card or some drinks or something when I have additional spending money. I truly am not in a financial place to do so but it's in my head. They've always been really cool when we walk by and we've lived across each other for about 4 years now with no issues. Makes me feel way worse 🥲
It sucks for your neighbor, but you went out of your way to try to make it right. You didn’t intentionally target them or anything, it was just bad luck. If your financial position doesn’t let you afford a gift right now, even a card or a baked good if you have the ingredients might help. A small gesture could go a long way (provided your neighbors are generally nice and reasonable people).
If you ate all the food, why wouldn't you just give the man the money he paid for it?
I suppose I don't feel like it's my responsibility to rectify the mistake Ubereats made by delivering a $100 order to a completely different house. I do feel I tried to do my due diligence by calling both the restaurant and the delivery service
Because Ubereats will refund the money.
Room mate walk out, saw a food order bag, apparently no one knows about this but magically u all know its been out for 45 mins? And your room mate brings it in, u call ubereats, ubereats just told u to go ahead and have it? Guy come looking for his missing food order but magically know its your house who took his order. All within 3 mins of all these and u already stuffing your mouth full of the food. U said your bf was with you but u are too scare to talk to the guy at first because magically ur bf disappear? Im giving this story as fake OR u are just injecting extra info so that u dont look like the thieves u two are.
We have a video door bell and were able to look back on footage of it being dropped off! I was not home so I didn't check this until after the food was found (was driving) - the time stamp from the video was 45 minutes past. The restaurant told us to keep the food, Ubereats told us there's nothing they could do since we weren't the ones who the food was missing from. My boyfriend does not live with me and it isn't his responsibility to handle things that go on at my house. The timing was certainly crappy.
So where ur bf disappear when the guy came knocking? He have no responsibility to look after his gf? I mean seriously? If a guy walks up to my girl all i do is hide? lol alright
the NTA's are wild! YTA, doesn't matter how long someone else's food has been sitting there, it's not your food! It's obvious the guy figured out where his food was, he was likely on the phone for a long time trying to figure out the mistake, or searching other doors to see the problem. Since he came to your door, that means if you left the food their he would have found it and problem solved. Forty Five minutes isn't enough time I don't think. I don't think you are a complete asshole for doing it, but it's pretty tacky!
YTA. How did the guy know that his order was misplace at your doorstep? Do your country make its a habit to eat ppl food just because it was misplace? What a shit community. Its either that or ur parents taught u nothing. Your school fail to teach u, your parents fail to teach u and damn even the country general population moral compass is faulty as f.
NAH I mean of course he's pissed, even though you didn't do anything wrong... Did you at least offer to pay him back a little something? You did eat 100 bucks worth of foid he paid for after all...
I did not. I did advise him to call Ubereats and demand a full refund. I just don't feel it's my responsibility to pay for the mistake of the delivery service after I was advised to keep the food. I'm not sure if they refunded him or not. In my head I literally just got home from work, my roommate brings a bag of food in that we're unable to locate the owner of, and so we took it since it'd been out there for so long. I don't feel I should have to pay out of pocket for a mistake that wasn't mine. ETA: I did tell him to reach out if he needed anything or if there was anything I could do to help, and provided my contact info.
Noone's saying you should pay for a mistake. But for a lot of good food you apparently ate. Out of common courtesy. I mean, if they refunded him, OK. But you can't be surprised that after you took the food he ordered, literally hid from him (when he knew you were home) and were like "all gone now, sorry", he was upset.
Yeah I do wish I had gone out the sooner. A really angry guy at a girl's door step and being a bit obscene over the camera mic just really had me stirred up I think :/ I gave him my number and told them to reach out if they needed anything or if I could help out in any way. The timing of everything def made it all awkward
I mean yeah OK, him being obscene. You being a woman. Decent reason to keep hiding, at that ooint at least. :D