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Yelling at the driver for putting the food right in front of the door π‘
Greentext be like:
The main door opens inwards the little glass/screen door opens outwards. In this pic there is no way for him to open the door without hitting the drinks.
Lol this is actually tame. You could open a slight gap, then use your left hand and reach out and grab the stuff.
In my house, theres like like more "wall" area before you can open it all the way like this:
What's worse is that there are steps in front of the door, and the top step ends where the "wall" area ends. So I have to open the door by a lot to actually reach outside, by which point any drinks would spill, right down tge steps.
Luckily, my storm door is designed so that I can remove the glass pane, so I don't have to open the door to get it. Drinks saved! (I mean, my other option is, walk out the back door so that I can walk all the way around my block to the front.)
I have a similar setup. Iβm fortunate enough to have a garage though. So I can easily go around if I need to.
You could also try propping your screen door open when waiting for a food delivery. I would do this with mine but then it blocks the doorbell. I got a little mini folding wooden table I can leave out, and put a sign indicating to leave the food there. (I also donβt like my food bags touching the ground because Iβm a germaphobe. Though Iβm sure their filthy DoorDash cars are dirtier than my door mat.)
Lol, I have have some germaphobia, but you kinda need to let go of the fear (even if just a little bit) if you ever want food delivery.
I'd just have hand-sanitizing wipes that I use to wipe the entire exterior surface of any bags it comes in and also wipe the exterior of any containers of drinks, and its good enough to calm down my germaphobia. (and obviously also wipe my hands afterwards too)
Why isn't your food order handed to you personally? Ring the doorbell, wait for someone to open up, give the food. Just like the pizza delivery guy in porn movies. Why would you leave food near the door... I don't get it. Or a package, same story. Hand it to someone or bring it to a neighbor. I've never heard of porch poachers over here because packages are never left unattended at people their houses.
Some delivery people are lazy. Especially with packages, some wonβt even ring the bell!
For DoorDash, I try to make sure I track them on the app and am at my door to meet them when they get here.
Over here they're not allowed to leave it unattended, unless the house owner specified on the website it's allowed to leave it a certain point outside the house. Otherwise it's just free loot for anyone to take. It's only covered by insurance if it gets stolen from within your house. But only if your house is locked, otherwise the insurance company isn't scared to do some victim blaming. So it's crazy to just leave stuff out in the open.
But to be fair, delivery people are often treated like shit. So I kinda get it why they would prefer to avoid contact. A friend of mine does grocery deliveries, the stories I hear from her of how people treat her. Fucking insane. Maybe if we start to treat others with respect like we would like to be treated ourselves... But goes both ways. When you leave drinks just outside an outside opening door, I kinda get it why people get mad at you.
Its the same with my cats. Constantly complaining I'm nog giving them enough food. When I'm giving them food, they complain it's not fast enough. When they're done eating, it's complaining they didn't get enough again so they start to throw my stuff from tables and desks. They treat me like shit but expect perfect service (they are in their puberty, they are driving me insane but I love them very much).
The door looks high enough to come over the drinks, but I do have bad depth perception. If not, I think there's room to squeeze a person out the side of the door and get the delivery, but you wouldn't want to fling the door open.
That's the Storm Door. The main external door to the house opens inward (behind the kitty).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_door
Idk if this is an American thing, but all the houses around where I live have 2 doors. The real door is the inner one, it opens inwards, mostly made of metal, and its what stops intruders. The outer door, which opens outwards, is just a metal frame that holds a pane of glass, not really a "door" and definitely aint stopping intruders.
Aparantly this "storm door" is supposed to be an extra layer against cold winds? π€·ββοΈ Idk how that helps, because I'm not a scientist
I dunno but I didn't have one for a while and then i did and the temperature difference is noticable. You can also swap out the glass pane for a screen in the summer.
In warmer environments, they tend to be called screen doors, and are used when you want to leave the door open without bugs getting in. In areas with bad weather (ice storms and such), storm doors protect the door itself from the elements, especially if itβs an expensive wooden door.
It must be American thing, I have never seen a house with two doors (Europe), apart from front door and back door of course. I am not saying these don't exist but certainly are not common enough for me to see one.
They had that in Sweden, so Idk.
If you have an extra screen/storm door, how the hell do you make them both open inwards?
Why would you need 2 doors?
Sure, you've entered through the first door, but what about second door?
Only an extra key you could loose. How do you "enter" the first door when there's a second but closed door right behind it? My house also has 2 outside doors: 1 in the front and 1 in the back.
It insulates better than your normal single door, the screen door is self closing so it helps to keep bugs out if you're doing anything around the house where you're going in and out a bunch, and when the weather is nice it's quite enjoyable to leave the main door open so all the light and a breeze and sounds get through the screen door. It's like a window that goes all the way to the floor and never has curtains in the way. In the US most front doors are sort of in the main living room. It's an open floor plan where the entry way and living room aren't divided by walls.
You don't have insulated upvc doors?
Yeah, but now imagine it being double walled.
I think almost every house I've ever seen has externally opening doors. Where it's not a thing is in apartment buildings where an externally opening door would be a hazard to other residents.
I know of one small town in my country that has internally opening doors because the local council demands it for aesthetic and historical reasons.
Itβs like they have no understanding of what their job actually is. If they thought about it at all, they would realize they fucked upβ¦ or itβs intentional?
Or most people who do this job can't afford to get deliveries themselves so they never encounter the problem themselves, and they're not paid enough to actually care about it. Their energy is spent thinking about getting to the next delivery, not doing each one perfectly.
Why didn't he ring the bell and handed the order to someone? Whenever I order something, whether it's food or a package, the delivery guy always waits for me to open the door to hand it to me. When I'm not at home they deliver it to my neighbors and leave a note in my mailbox.
You dont uber eats then, because at no point do they do any of that.
They do over here
One of the parcel delivery drivers in my area does that. Usually I can get whatever parcel is on the doorstep to shift enough (without damaging it) to squeeze out the front door, but I'm expecting at some point to have to go out the back door because the parcel blocking the front door will be too heavy!