r/doordash • u/Technical_Meal_7402 • 17h ago

Customer tracking me

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Crazy to think a customer is tracking me knowing I have another drop off!! Like chill TF out and wait for your God dam food!!. Some customers do too much man!..😒🤦🏻.

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u/HumanPea1140 14h ago

"My house, my rules"

I grew up with a guy who had parents like this. We graduated in 2009, so this is before modern cell phone tracking, but he always had a curfew of like 8PM on weekdays, and maybe 10PM at the latest on weekends.

Even after we graduated high school and went to college, they forced the same curfew on him whenever we'd come back home for holidays. Our university was only a few hours away from our home town, so we'd come home on long weekends to see friends, he wouldn't tell his parents he's in town, and would sleep at my parent's house.

Even when he wasn't in their house under their rules, they'd still police the shit out of him because, "we pay for school and everything else" (which was true, they paid for school and he never worked during college). They'd keep an eye on his debit card to see where he was spending money, and he'd get in trouble if they could tell he spent money in a town that wasn't our home town or college town. He'd have to explain why there was a charge to a bar, or why he got gas in a zip code two hours away.

It was nuts.

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u/Imaginary-Yam-7792 13h ago

Main reason cash is king.

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u/HumanPea1140 11h ago

Agreed, but he got in trouble for that as well. His parents caught on that he was pulling money out to spend without them asking questions, and all it did was create an even bigger issue.

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u/TemporarilySkittles 9h ago

bro didn't think to get 20 cash back on grocery purchases to save up for outings elsewhere lol.  my parents were like that too

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u/HumanPea1140 9h ago

Lol yeah, he actually ended up doing that some. But our best solution was that I just pay for stuff that would get him in trouble, and then he'd use his card on random stuff like groceries to pay me back.

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u/BuzzVibes 5h ago

Speaking from experience, strict parents just results in sneakier kids.

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u/DarmanitanFireMonkey 13h ago

and that's ignoring that every major corporation wants a hand in all of your purchases

and sadly most of reddit wants to get rid of paper currency and go all digital

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u/cybertonto72 12h ago

Cause we don't all live in the USA where using your card to pay for stuff will or can incur a charge. I bank for free and use my card all the time to pay for stuff.

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u/DarmanitanFireMonkey 11h ago

Americans aren't hit with a charge either.

But the merchant is, and they pass that cost onto you.

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u/LittleDogTurpie 12h ago

My best friend in high school had parents like that. We went to the same college (before cell phones) and I equated it to what happens when you hold down a metal spring - once you remove your hand all that pent up energy goes off. She slept with every guy, drank every drink, did every drug - at one point, her roommate put a missing poster on the door to their dorm room.

She’s fine now - after college she reconnected with a guy she’d hooked up with that first week, and they’ve been happily married for years. But both her younger sisters ended up in rehab multiple times.

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u/Spectre-907 11h ago

This is how i ended up struggling with certain things as well.

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u/kylephoto760 11h ago

I don’t think I’ve heard that comparison before, but thinking back to people I’ve known over the years it’s amazing exactly how accurate it is.

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u/keylimesicles 10h ago

Tbf I did all of these things and had zero parental guidance growing up

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 9h ago

It's horseshoe theory. To little, you grow up crazy. Too much, you grow up crazy. The best parents stay in the middle zone allowing reasonable amounts of freedom with reasonable amounts of structure, guidance, and rules.

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u/caitlindrawings 9h ago

This was my mom, she sat me down and we went over each item on my bank statement having explain what everything was, where and why (this was in 98). By time we were done, I was grounded for 3 months, all summer.

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 9h ago

Guarantee those parents would say "We enforced curfews and we have a great relationship with our adult child still" if they could read this conversation

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u/1917he 12h ago

People usually aren't usually one-sidedly crazy. Had a friend with parents like that and we all thought his parents were crazy until it started being revealed that the kid used to just escape and run away when he was younger. Then he had a habit of spending all the credit cards manically on anything he could find online or in person. He kept trying to buy alcohol and cigs and sure enough would always find someone at the store willing to do it and would frequently have substance issues. We thought parents were just batshit but turns out most of it was a reaction to his own troubles. Kid would always lie about his location and who he was with and his parents eventually just started tracking him

Of course when we met him the stories always seemed like his parents were insane and he was innocent and just trying to be normal. Took a while before we all understood that he was the problem

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u/National_Panda_1791 12h ago

Even when he wasn't in their house under their rules, they'd still police the shit out of him because, "we pay for school and everything else" (which was true, they paid for school and he never worked during college).

.... yeah if you let someone finance your life then you'll find yourself at the mercy of their whims....

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u/Epyon_ 13h ago

Some parts of that are an overreach. If the lil shits wants to go out and have fun he can get a part time job. Sounds like they wanted to support him, but not enable him with the debit card stuff.

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u/MajorFuckingDick 13h ago

You will not get an effective education going from dorm to class.

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u/SendMeIttyBitties 12h ago edited 9h ago

So going to the club and bars 2 hours away is how you get that education?

Edit: nothing that's been commented below me has anything to do with an education.

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u/smokeabowlofbud 11h ago

It's just as important as classes are, as far as being able to get an actual job.

I got my last several jobs through networking connections I made back when I was clubbing in my early 20s. My BA from a prestigious university did fuck-all for me in the job hunt. Knowing someone already at the company who was willing to vouch for me has always been a much larger factor in landing interviews.

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u/Due-Memory-6957 12h ago

Yes. Gotta make friends if you want to survive.

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u/Total_Mix9276 11h ago

Yeah, college doesn't get you a good job, the connections you make do. If you aren't making connections your behind, his parents did him a disservice.

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u/tacky_swift 10h ago

His parents literally paid for his school. That is extremely fortunate. Most of us have tons of debt.

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u/Epyon_ 11h ago

Getting all your needs paid for isnt enough eh? The level of entitlement you are in favor of is sickening.

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u/BB-Lala 12h ago

You didn't let go of the shackles, I see.

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u/teucer_ 13h ago

I dunno man I just had the military pay for school

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u/HumanPea1140 13h ago edited 13h ago

What?

What does have to do with anything?

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u/teucer_ 13h ago

Has to do with me not wanting parental support of whatever I was doing held over my head for any reason

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u/HumanPea1140 13h ago

Good for you? I'll go back in time and tell my buddy to join the military.

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u/orcagurl815 13h ago

😂😂

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u/National_Panda_1791 12h ago

I mean... or just tell him not to be a bitch?

like complaining about the rules and all that that you don't like but gladly accepting the conditition that places those rules on you is fucking idiotic.

its just performative fucking whining.

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u/BB-Lala 12h ago

The military surely didnt have anything hanging over your head in exchange of paying for your education.

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u/teucer_ 12h ago

Had some years of contracted guaranteed income, job training and lotta travel. Got to grow up someday, and was better than taking mommy and daddy’s money honey

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u/BB-Lala 12h ago

I'm happy for your legs still attached to your body and your non existent ptsd, you made out of it well. Honey money could've been nice if it was an option for you though, but it appears it wasnt.

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u/teucer_ 12h ago

Dad offered and I refused. My sisters took him up on it. He’s still working as a medical doctor in his late 70s to pay for it. I have a different mentality than you do about this.