Okay, I delivered for Papa Johns in college:
Once had a guy flip the pizza over in the box right in front of me and ask for a free replacement... Even called my manager and said I did it.
Once had a guy pull a gun on me and ask if i had his pizza... Thing was it WAS his pizza, dude was 'joking around' and even paid for the pie. That's was this guys world, where drawing a gun and threatening someone is an everyday 'joke'...
Delivered to women in bra/ panties who weren't interested in pizza... Sadly they often didn't look great in said wardrobe... Women would call in straight asking for a pizza guy every now and then...
Delivered to Janet Jackson (backstage concert) and got a hundred dollar tip once...
Delivered to a well known swingers club a few times, was never invited in...
Average tip was no tip...
Very 'interesting' job... But some of the people. And ALWAYS tip your delivery guy, lazy motha fuckas!
It's like we're brothers...even if you're still a dirty Imperial
Delivered for Papa Johns too in college. I'd like to say I delivered to a woman who didn't want pizza, but wanted my pepperoni...never happened though. I was pretty oblivious in my late teens/early 20s though. I remember a number of overweight slobs I worked with bragging about the customers that made offers to them, I was never lucky enough despite the fact I did alright with girls outside of work. I did have the misfortune of delivering pizza to an apartment once...and it was a bit awkward. There were just two guys there, no shirts, and they were clearly watching porn with the TV facing the door. They acted like everything was completely normal, that was probably the weirdest thing that happened.
I did hear stories of guys getting robbed at gunpoint, never had that happen to me. I did deliver to a couple houses that had giant fucking dogs roaming around outside. I'm talking dogs that were big enough that I would reach over to grab the pizzas from the passenger seat, turn to my window on the left and be looking eye to eye with a monstrous beast that probably ate pizza guys for breakfast.
There were some days/nights where I made decent money, but you do get stiffed an awful lot. You could have a really bad night, and then the next it could be really good and make up for the losses. Some cities generally tip better than others, and it seems customers that order from better franchises (Like La Rosa's) will tip better than customers that order from Domino's all the time. It's nice bringing in a little extra coin each day instead of just a bi-weekly check, but people don't realize how rough it can be on a car. It's a lot of miles, all stop and go, and it's city driving.
I've got one semi-funny story that I remember. At one point I would deliver pizzas on some nights and manage the day shift on other days. One day I got a call from some dude that was asking for a free pizza. I looked through the records for the last few days, but I didn't see that anyone had ordered a pizza using his phone number recently. I immediately knew where he was located though because I was a driver...government housing. Anyway, the reason this guy felt he should get a free pizza is because of an incident that happened the night before. Apparently someone prank called an order and had it delivered to this man's house. When the driver got there, the man told him that he didn't order it...and the man claimed our delivery driver actually asked his kids to go door to door to his neighbors and asked if anyone of them had ordered the pizza. So, he wanted a free pizza in compensation....Now, I knew the driver that works nights. He's a 60 year old Korean man, nicest guy you'd ever meet, knew him for a number of years while I worked there in college and there's no way he would have asked these kids to go door to door late at night like that. So, struggling to hold back the laughter, I told the gentleman I apologized, but there was nothing I could do. He quickly got irate, and asked repeatedly if I was calling him a liar. I lied and told him I would speak to the driver about the situation, but I couldn't give the man a free pizza. He then went back to the "Calling him a liar" statement, threatened to call my boss and have me fired from my pizza job (Which did cause me to laugh, since my boss at the time was my girlfriend's sister...and it was a fuckin' pizza job), and "I'll be sorry." At that point I started laughing and hung up the phone, and it was several minutes before I could stop laughing. There's nothing better than shutting down some idiot that's trying to scam for free pizza.
