Did I ever tell you guys about the Instacart guy who stole our shovel?? I though for sure I had, but I cannot find the post about it, so here I am, telling you now. Because there is an ending to the story 🤣 Finally.
So you guys know that I’ve abused discovered grocery delivery this last year or so. Is has been a total game changer for our family. SO much time saved. I love it! But I did learn over winter that, once the evening came and things got darker, a lot more mistakes were made. However, sometimes they were unavoidable, and we ended up hunting down groceries on someone else’s front step. Not our favorite thing, but we managed.
However, a couple of poor saps started taking the alley, which seems like an obvious no-go in a small town during the winter, but in the dark, I suppose all bets are off. We have learned since then that Uber maps takes people down our alley to get to our house, which makes no sense, and I have added to my instructions on my account NOT to take the alley. They still do sometimes 😅 but I don’t feel bad.
Anyway. THIS guy. This one particular driver took the alley. He was late to arrive, and when we started to notice revving in the alley, we put it together. After a while, he texted Brady “I’m stuck in the alley, I need help.” Now. We’re not dicks. I promise you. But it was not a time for this. We were in the midst of feeding all the kids. It was a very loud, challenging scene at that particular time. There was no way I could just bail. And Brady, in case you hadn’t heard, is paralyzed and even if he could get all the way through the backyard full of snow to this guy, he couldn’t drive. So he texted him that he was paralyzed and couldn’t help. Keep in mind that it also isn’t our responsibility to bail him out. Like, we WOULD’VE if we could’ve! But we truly physically could not make it happen. After a bit, the guy came to our door and let us know he was snagging the shovel off of our front door step. Deal. No problem. After another few minutes, he texted again and said he’d do all the pushing if someone just came and drove. But again, Brady with the legs. No dice. Brady apologized and sent him the number for the local tow guy. Grocery guy did not respond. He worked and worked and worked and finally got his vehicle out. He came to our door with our groceries, told us he threw our shovel over the fence, and took off. Felt a little rude, but we understood why he was upset. No harm no foul. We got our groceries, and he got his car out. Though he did really want us to know he broke his bumper in the process. Noted.
Aaaaanyway, we spent the rest of the summer trying to find this stupid shovel 😅 It was not in our yard, nor the yard of our neighbours. We laughed uproariously at this guy who, in the process of delivering us groceries, got so angry that he stole our shovel in the middle of winter. Like. How petty are you?? Lol! What a weird flex! But we giggled about it, replaced our shovel, and moved on.
We joked later in the season, in the midst of a good solid snowfall, how much we wished we had the guys number so we could text him and tell him we wished we had our shovel, and were wondering where it had gone. We went waaaaay back to where he had texted Brady, but sadly, it just directed to uber.
So as of yesterday – mid April – Dekker goes out for a bike ride, but is quickly back in the house announcing his grand find!!
That ridiculous shovel lived in the alley aaaaall winter long!!
I’m not sure which story I like better.
Do you think he left it in the alley and just didn’t want to go back for it?
or
Do you think he tried to throw it over and missed, and then was too angry to go get it?
YOU be the judge!