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Delivery story 21

Rick writes:

I've worked for a Domino's in Michigan for 5 years now. Every year there are a couple of days that snow quite hard. In the last couple of days we had accumulated about 12 inches of snow. It was still snowing hard, but most people had been plowing and shoveling their driveways enough so that we could deliver their food.

It was one of those heavy-snow-friday-night-ass-whoopins. The volume alone was causing us to back up. The slippery roads and motorists who shouldn't be allowed on the roads when it snows were making it even worse!

A co-working/longtime friend of mine was delivering in a smaller-sized car, doing his best to do his job on this very taxing day. He got a run to a guy who lived up a long unpaved driveway, the kind that you can barely see the house from the road. He gathered momentum and made his way up the driveway and delivered the pizza. No love.

He started back down the drive and got stuck about halfway!! He tried to dig himself out, having kept a shovel in his car for just this occasion. It wasn't working. His car was just too stuck. So now what?

He's already cold and the light jacket Domino's provides is barely helping. He walks up the driveway back to the guy's house. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK, DING DONG. No matter what door he tries or what window he knocks on, this guy refuses to come back to the door.

We finally got a call at the store. It had been a long time since anyone had heard from him. He had walked 2 miles to a payphone and called to have a tow out of the guy's driveway.

To the guy who wouldn't answer the door right after he got pizza ... thanks a lot, jerk.