I have been a delivery driver for a long time
I am telling you that there is a very real chance that I would not have crossed that line
(it is NOT because of the demon. i work in PIZZA for fuckās sake. heās FINE with salt. use your critical thinking skills, here. there are some coworkers I would HAPPILY trap in salt if this really worked. there are huge bags of it at work. cāmon.)
but unless youāve worked in the industry for, like, at least a year, you have no idea, you absolutely have no clue, about how downright and entirely weird people can be. (really, you need to be in it at least five years before you REALLY know, unless you get extraordinarily lucky/unlucky the first year) most food service workers experience peopleās weird, but you donāt really get WEIRD until you get to their house.
(except, probably baristas and bartenders, but thatās because of the whole third placeā¦ thing.)
Iām not talking, like, karen angry shit, that happens in both, Iām talking WEIRD.
and. like. i get it. Iām at someoneās house, itās where theyāre at their weirdest, for most people. if you deliver food to people, you are going to experience weird.
and most of the weird I experience is fine and occasionally delightful. all well and good.
but thereās this thing people do where they assume something that they do, something theyāve always done, is extremely common and normal and expected from everybody, and when you do something that throws that mindset out of whack, people will absolutely FLIP their goddamn SHIT.
if I saw that line, I would be going through a checklist in my head of
have i delivered here before?
if so, have they made weird complaints in the past? not, like, ādriver forgot my ranchā but ādriver smiled at me and that is illegalā (I have had complaints like that)
is the house giving me a Weird Vibe?
basically, what are the chances that, if I step over this line, someone is going to yell at me? Because I am on a bit of a schedule, I do not have the time for being yelled at, I want to exchange food for currency and leave.
(unless you have an animal that I may pet. then I want to exchange pizza for currency and pet your animal for a minute or so, tell them they are good and beautiful, and then leave.)
I do not want to prolong this with being chewed out for stepping over what is obviously a line of protection from strangers, or something, is my point.
ā¦okay and thereās a reasonable chance I might not cross a line of salt specifically to fuck with someone, Iām not going to lie. Like, it would at least cross my mind, and I can think of at least three of my co-workers who would love the chance to NOT cross a line of salt on the sidewalk.
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