What would you do if your neighbour just took your whole order for themselves, and didn’t even try to return it to its intended owner? That’s what happened to one woman who was seething
A woman was left seething after one of her upstairs neighbours decided to take her whole food order for themselves, without even attempting to give it to the correct address. “My upstairs neighbours got my Walmart grocery order and took it inside,” he woman from the US penned on Reddit, sharing how fuming she was about the ordeal.
There’s nothing worse than not actually getting the thing you ordered delivered, and then having to try and prove that you don’t have it to the company you’ve ordered it from. It’s added stress you likely don’t need in your day, and the woman was furious her neighbours did this to her – but they had a good reason.
She wrote on Reddit’s ‘Neighbour’s From Hell’ forum: “The audacity, right? I already got a refund, I’m not taking food that someone took in their house already. I don’t know these people.
“We have about nine neighbours surrounding us, five on each floor. I know some people are short on food lately, and there are kids up there.
“I’m not pressed about that part if that’s what it is. But even then, wouldn’t you tell your neighbour you have their food? I would…”
However, when she had the food redelivered, she found out the reason why they may not have taken her the food after it was dropped off.
She shared: “I reordered the same order I lost after I got a refund. Just got the order, and the bags don’t have any stickers with my address on them. So they couldn’t have even come to tell me if they wanted to! Glad I didn’t confront them or complain to [the building] manager!”
Often, blocks of flats will have a group chat on WhatsApp for safety, but if there is nothing like that, the neighbour would’ve found it tricky to return the food.
In the comments, someone fumed: “They are proven thieves. I would not have anything delivered that you can’t get yourself”.
The original poster replied: “The groceries were placed in front of their door instead of mine, never had this problem before, honestly. Next time I’ll watch out for the delivery person when they are nearby, so if they pass my door, I can stop them”.
Another raged: “I had a neighbour take my Gopuff bag inside, and they had just had a baby, so he said he thought it was a gift and just didn’t check the name.
“That’s fine- but then he acted offended when my partner asked for it back? He had already opened some stuff”.
A Redditor said that it was “selfish” for the neighbour to have taken the stuff without asking any questions, asking: “Have we learned nothing since Covid?”
Somebody penned: “What if the kids found the food and just assumed it was theirs? What if they called Walmart and were told to keep the food?
“I have contacted them before when I received things I didn’t order, and I wasn’t charged for them. They told me to keep the food. I believe they have a rule that food cannot be redelivered to the correct customer”.
What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments…
