Any Weird Pizza Delivery Stories?

[cmlax21]

Tonight at work I had an...experience to say the least. First a little back story. I live in a pretty small town and it's never really too hard to find my way around and I usually know where the houses are anyway but my boss always gives me directions just in case and his directions are like "go to the fire hall and turn left and its the third house on the right" stuff like that and if I ever ask for a house number he just says "you don't need it, it's not hard to find." Truthfully I don't think he knows them he just recognizes the peoples voices on the phone and knows what house is theirs.

But that's enough rambling, so tonight it was another routine delivery but it was in the next town over which I'm sorta familiar with and my boss tells me "go past the gas station and after you go around the bend it's the first blue house on the left." Okay, no big deal so I get in the car and drive. So I get to the gas station go around the bend and I see the first blue house on the left, only one thing, the first blue house on the left had two cop cars with lights flashing in the driveway, they didn't get out yet but something was up and there was a couple out on the porch standing there arguing. So I figure maybe that's just the wrong house so I continue driving looking around for another blue house around but there wasn't one, there wasn't even another house for at least 150 yards. S**t, I think, this isn't going to be fun so I call my boss and say that there's two cop cars with lights flashing at this house that I'm supposed to deliver the pizza to and he just says that that's normal at that house deliver the pizza anyway. So I hang up, s**t I say a second time wishing that my boss would have warned me before hand and then s**t I say a third time thinking about how I'm going to have to deliver to this house.

So I turn around and go back towards this house and I decide maybe this isn't the first blue house around the bend I'll go back farther but as I drive by this house slowly I make eye contact with the guy and he sees my pizza hat on and waves at me and I say s**t this is the house. So I turn around again and since there is no room in their driveway now I pull in their yard along side the road and begin to slowly get out with the pizza and almost immediately the one cop gets out of his car and yells "Get back in the car!" So I do as fast as I can, oh s**t I say that was scary. So I'm sitting there in my car with my hands where he can see them (he didn't tell me to I was just so scared at this point I didn't know what to do) and then the guy on the porch says that it's just the pizza delivery guy. The cop looks at me and I say yeah and he tells me to get out and then he tells me to walk over to his car and set my pizza bag down on the car and the one cop looks through the bag and the pizza boxes to make sure nothing was in there and when he opened the box he jokingly said "Looks good." I might of chuckled if the other cop didn't already have me bent over the car giving me a pat down. They eventually decided that I was clean and told the guy to take me around back to buy the pizza.

So we start to go around back and I see at least ten kids of different races (not that that's a bad thing but the fact that it was a white married couple made it kind of weird) and also a baby crying inside. And soon as we go around back I hear the cop say the famous "Put your hands behind your back!" to the wife still out front and when the guy turns around and sees the look on my face he just says "Yeah, my wife's in trouble." I didn't ask why, but eventually he pays for it and I give him the pizza and I start walking back out front with the guy and we were just chit chatting, I was surprised at how calm he was because I was barely able to keep it together. So we go back around front and I see the one cop putting handcuffs on the now crying wife and the only way to get back to my car is where they are all standing so I just stand there patiently waiting and the cop that is not handcuffing the wife lets me through and as I pass they both say "Have a nice day young man." and I say back "Have a nice day officers." and then the guy says it too so I say it back and then to my surprise the the wife who is being walked to the cop car says it too so I say it back to her too.

A strangely weird peaceful ending to what seemed like would be a crazy situation. But still too much to handle for a lousy $1 tip.

Sorry for the long post, I just had to get that story out.

Anybody have a pizza delivery story to top that?

[MJ5150]

No, but now I want some pizza. I wish we had a Best Way or Fox's Pizza Den out here.

-Mike

[IconBasser]

heh, I'm not a pizza delivery guy, but I'm sure any one of em that has a regular route through inner city areas will have crazier ones.

[Selta]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

No, but now I want some pizza. I wish we had a Best Way or Fox's Pizza Den out here.

-Mike

Seriously? Yuck. I don't miss either of those places' pizza at all. Fox's has good chicken, though.

[bongomania]

Many years ago I had a job delivering organic pizzas by bicycle, in Eugene Oregon. In all seriousness, about half the deliveries went like this:

I go to the house; the door is open; I knock; nobody answers; I walk in; and somebody on the couch looks up and says "is that pizza? Oh man, I was getting really hungry too! Man, pizza, wow, that is so awesome that you came by with some pizza."

I set the pizza down, and they just look at me. I say "that'll be $21.50", and their eyes widen and their mouth hangs open, and they're like "Uh, let me see what I can scrounge up, hang on a sec..." and they start looking under couch cushions and through the pockets of random coats and pants around the place.

Finally they come up with like $18 and a few buds. I take it, knowing that's all I'm going to get out of them that night.

Again, no joke, there were a few like that every night.

[tastybasslines]

I had a pig jump right out of the door and knock me over once. Another time, some guys creeped up on me when I was walking back to my car and when I got the door open, I pulled out my pipe and told them to $%#$ off. I had a girl answer the door in panties once.

But a room service waiter...also delivery, that's a whole another story....

[James Hart]

I delivered pizza... worked the kitchen and spun pies over the years.

As far as stories. Here is a news article about the last place I worked 2 Held in Thrill-Killings of Pizza Men - NYTimes.com

I had left 4 years before that happened.

[ZanaZulu807]

Not really weird, but about a month ago when it was raining heavy all day, every day I had a pizza guy yell for me to come out and get the pizza cause he couldn't get my entry gates open and his phone had no reception to call me. I go out to meet the guy only to be greeted by a swarm of quite malicious profanities and my pizza chucked at me as he sped off. A colossal prick...

[tastybasslines]

Originally Posted by James Hart

I delivered pizza... worked the kitchen and spun pies over the years.

As far as stories. Here is a news article about the last place I worked 2 Held in Thrill-Killings of Pizza Men - NYTimes.com

I had left 4 years before that happened.

Chilling. Did they ever catch the guys who did it?

[tastybasslines]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Many years ago I had a job delivering organic pizzas by bicycle, in Eugene Oregon. In all seriousness, about half the deliveries went like this:

I go to the house; the door is open; I knock; nobody answers; I walk in; and somebody on the couch looks up and says "is that pizza? Oh man, I was getting really hungry too! Man, pizza, wow, that is so awesome that you came by with some pizza."

I set the pizza down, and they just look at me. I say "that'll be $21.50", and their eyes widen and their mouth hangs open, and they're like "Uh, let me see what I can scrounge up, hang on a sec..." and they start looking under couch cushions and through the pockets of random coats and pants around the place.

Finally they come up with like $18 and a few buds. I take it, knowing that's all I'm going to get out of them that night.

Again, no joke, there were a few like that every night.

Tell them to go look for more money or from people in the back of the house, then steal their CD case. Wait until they come back and still take what they can muster.

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by tastybasslines

Chilling. Did they ever catch the guys who did it?

yeah, it was 2 guys that 'just wanted to see what it was like to kill a man' I never followed the case beyond the guilty verdict. Looking at it now it seems the one guy got the death penalty but it was overturned.

[LiquidMidnight]

Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

Seriously? Yuck. I don't miss either of those places' pizza at all. Fox's has good chicken, though.

Yes, but I bet you miss Sheetz. Everybody who leaves misses Sheetz.

Gard has a funny audition/pizza delivery story that I hope he'll tell.

[tastybasslines]

Originally Posted by James Hart

yeah, it was 2 guys that 'just wanted to see what it was like to kill a man' I never followed the case beyond the guilty verdict. Looking at it now it seems the one guy got the death penalty but it was overturned.

sucks...wonder how they got em...could be anyone....

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by tastybasslines

sucks...wonder how they got em...could be anyone....

2 teenagers called 4 local pizza shops from a payphone at the local Dunkin Donuts until they found one that would deliver to an empty house... It didn't take Detectives long to find them.

Being 1997 and a rural area without much to do... the D&D was a busy place and the empty house was quite near the entrance to a popular woods party location.

The pizza place was one of 3 that were opened by the guy I worked for. I was actually employed at one in the next town over. The 'store owner' that died was an employee at the time I worked there... he bought that location from Tony the year before it happened. I didn't know him well... but I did work with him a few times.

[Ursus Tyrannus]

I often used to go with my little brother on his pizza deliveries many years ago. It was his first job and I wanted to make sure he was safe.
My brother occasionally got the fake delivery call, someone would call the pizza joint and have a pizza sent to a random address or kids would sit inside giggling and not answer the door, small town = nothing to do I guess. So this one night we get to the place and he knocks, no answer, then a light came and then turned off. My brother not being a patient person began to pound on the door yelling "open up, this isnt funny, I can hear you moving around in there" then goes around to the other door pounding and yelling. He even tried the garage door all the while getting angrier and louder, looking in windows and yelling to open up, they need to pay for this stuff. Then I notice the number...uh, bro, I think you need to go across the street, this is the wrong house.
We go across the street, deliver the pizzas, and as we are leaving three cruisers come screaming down the road, sirens and lights blazing, and pull into the driveway of the first house. I can only picture some old lady inside scared of the teenage kid yelling at her house.
I kinda stopped going on deliveries after that.

[jp58]

I've had a few times where people have had lines of coke on the table, or a gun in the front of their gym shorts.

[cmlax21]

Originally Posted by James Hart

I delivered pizza... worked the kitchen and spun pies over the years.

As far as stories. Here is a news article about the last place I worked 2 Held in Thrill-Killings of Pizza Men - NYTimes.com

I had left 4 years before that happened.

Holy crap. At least you left before.

[cmlax21]

Originally Posted by Ursus Tyrannus

I often used to go with my little brother on his pizza deliveries many years ago. It was his first job and I wanted to make sure he was safe.
My brother occasionally got the fake delivery call, someone would call the pizza joint and have a pizza sent to a random address or kids would sit inside giggling and not answer the door, small town = nothing to do I guess. So this one night we get to the place and he knocks, no answer, then a light came and then turned off. My brother not being a patient person began to pound on the door yelling "open up, this isnt funny, I can hear you moving around in there" then goes around to the other door pounding and yelling. He even tried the garage door all the while getting angrier and louder, looking in windows and yelling to open up, they need to pay for this stuff. Then I notice the number...uh, bro, I think you need to go across the street, this is the wrong house.
We go across the street, deliver the pizzas, and as we are leaving three cruisers come screaming down the road, sirens and lights blazing, and pull into the driveway of the first house. I can only picture some old lady inside scared of the teenage kid yelling at her house.
I kinda stopped going on deliveries after that.

Haha I've knocked on the wrong house before but not like that. One time the other delivery guy I work with delivered to the right house number but on the wrong street, they felt so bad for him that they paid for it anyway. The other people called a half hour later pissed that they didn't get their food because he didn't tell anybody what he did.

[cmlax21]

Originally Posted by jp58

I've had a few times where people have had lines of coke on the table, or a gun in the front of their gym shorts.

I get a lot of guys with their rifles next to them, it's a good thing I know a lot of them. No cocaine though.

[Stinsok]

Lots of dope smoke wafting out the door. Many times, a really loud TV in the background with porn playing.