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I ordered delivery from a sushi place tonight. At some point the guy calls and says he's in the lobby so I go down, sign the bill (I paid with a credit card) and bring the food upstairs. Rut roh. I realize that I got a bagel with about 8 toppings, then I look closer at the receipt and realize its form some place called "Pick A Bagel". Shiiiiiiiiiiit!!
So I go downstairs and find the right delivery guy (who was actually waiting outside for some reason). I sign the right bill and get my food. Now I have my sushi and this super-bagel. I hang around for like 15 minutes trying to find whoever ordered the bagel but no one claims it.
I ask the desk if they can hold it and see if anyone comes but they say they can't. I don't know what to do so I bring it to my apartment and give it to my roommate.
What would you have done?
btw, my building has 32 floors with like 60 people/floor, so finding the owner of the bagel would not really be possible.
tw texas
12-19-2004, 11:38 PM
You're in quite a pickle!
eric5148
12-19-2004, 11:41 PM
It's a f-ing bagel! Who cares? If it were like a personalized birthday cake or something, then yeah I'll try to find the person who ordered it.
uw_madtown
12-19-2004, 11:41 PM
Who the hell orders a bagel for delivery?
Screw 'em, if they're that odd.
Tyler Durden
12-19-2004, 11:42 PM
You're not an ass. It's unreasonable to assume that every person should look at their food when taking it from the delivery guy. If anything it's his fault for calling you when you weren't the one who ordered from him.
I agree, you can't find the rightful owner, and it shouldn't go to waste, so giving it to your roomie is a good idea.
But the security desk in your building needs to pull the branch out of its ass.
slickpoppa
12-19-2004, 11:44 PM
well, you paid for it and you made an effort, so i think your karma is still good
cardcounter0
12-19-2004, 11:45 PM
The fact that you have to ask the question means the answer is "Yes".
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If anything it's his fault for calling you when you weren't the one who ordered from him.
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I live in NYC so there were like 4 delivery guys there at the time. The bagel guy was the only one without a pizza so I assumed he had my sushi.
I was kinda stupid for not realizing it but after that i didn't know what to do.
GuyOnTilt
12-19-2004, 11:47 PM
well, you paid for it and you made an effort, so i think your karma is still good
I don't think he did pay for it. He just signed for it. Whoever ordered paid by CC over the phone.
I would've done basically the same thing though. Wait for a bit, ask anybody loitering in the lobby, ask the desk if they could hold it, and if none of that worked I'd give it to somebody who was hungry.
GoT
Actually I fraudulantly signed a credit card reciept, so I dunno.
In my defense it was a Mastercard with a number that kinda looked like mine though.
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Who the hell orders a bagel for delivery?
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I was kinda thinking the same thing.
Also, it was $14. I really can't understand paying $14 for a bagel regardless of how much sh[/i]it comes with it.
sounds like you got yourself a free bagel - the best possible thing that could come out of this is that the bagel belonged to a really hot girl in your building, and sometime this week you are sharing the elevator with her and her friends and you hear her talking to them about it - you interrupt her and tell her about how you mistakenly took her bagel, and eventually you two hit it off and have wild crazy monkey sex - but it could also be a poison bagel, so please be careful.
Dav123
12-20-2004, 01:21 AM
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Also, it was $14.
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Isn't everything $14 in NYC?
Riskwise
12-20-2004, 01:32 AM
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It's a f-ing bagel! Who cares? If it were like a personalized birthday cake or something, then yeah I'll try to find the person who ordered it.
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Could not have worded it any better, keep it up
sublime
12-20-2004, 01:33 AM
some poor jewish guy is starving because of you.
slickpoppa
12-20-2004, 01:35 AM
he can't be too poor if he's spending 14 dollars on a bagel
sublime
12-20-2004, 01:36 AM
he can't be too poor if he's spending 14 dollars on a bagel
good point. he is still hungry though!
theantelope
12-20-2004, 03:05 AM
Nah--it wasn't fraud unless you meant to do it.
Michael Davis
12-20-2004, 03:18 AM
If I lived where you live I would have free food at least once a week.
-Michael
MarkL444
12-20-2004, 03:22 AM
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I ordered delivery from a sushi place tonight.
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was the delivery guy with the bagel oriental? if not, youre fault. if he was, meh.
Yes. What was the point of the bagel story?
Yea, or at least food delivered really fast. I'm thinking the next time I'm hungry I might just go down to the lobby and wait for the first pizza guy to show up.
I think so. I couldn't really tell actually. He was very close if he wasn't.
nolanfan34
12-20-2004, 03:27 AM
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Yes. What was the point of the bagel story?
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I can't believe it took 20+ posts before someone made this joke.
Serious question - and Evan, you may still be drunk from AC, but how do you sign a receipt without either looking at the item and price, or the name on it?
There was no name and the price was shockingly close to the price of my sushi. It was also a Mastercard with a number that i thought looked kinda like mine.
MarkL444
12-20-2004, 03:55 AM
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Yes. What was the point of the bagel story?
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this is OOT, points are not required.
GuyOnTilt
12-20-2004, 04:06 AM
how do you sign a receipt without either looking at the item and price, or the name on it?
Not hard to do. I find that to be the rule rather than the exception when I use a CC.
GoT
JTG51
12-20-2004, 04:14 AM
I think you handled it fine, but if you're so worried about it why didn't you just call the bagel place?
SuitedSixes
12-20-2004, 04:33 AM
No, you'd be an ass if you shat on the bagel before attempting to return or pass of on someone else.
Yea, seriously. I was pretty hungry so I woulda signed just about anything he decided to hand me.
Lazymeatball
12-20-2004, 10:26 AM
Assuming those are mostly $1 chips in your avatar, How much is that? About $1100-1500 by my count. Is there a story behind this, or is it just a photo op?
Who the hell orders sushi for delivery?
jakethebake
12-20-2004, 10:48 AM
who the hell has a bagel delivered? and how does a place like that stay in business?
I'll go further and say that applies to getting cash change back. The world could be stiffing me a couple bucks every transaction and I would never know.
IndieMatty
12-20-2004, 12:12 PM
You're not an ass. But , if this happened. A simple, "Call Pick a Bagel, find out who was supposed to get it, and call/bring to them" would have been the proper solution.
Lazymeatball
12-20-2004, 12:38 PM
Actually, the guy who ordered the bagel will eventually call them and say where's my f'in bagel, and the bagel pushers wil say, we delivered it you, and he'll say, I don't see know f'n cream cheese in my mouth bitch, give me my godamn bagel, and they'll send him a new one free of charge, and he won't tip the delivery guy, and ti will be his fault for handing out bagels to random strangers. You are absolved.
IndieMatty
12-20-2004, 12:47 PM
Or they will say, "someone signed the receipt", and they will bring him the receipt, and the dude/dudette will knock on every door in the NYU directory with where an Evan (I'm asssumuing his last name is not legiblie) resides, and they'll finde Evan's poor roommate taking that last bite, and then he will get his ass kicked/berated for being a delivery poacher. /images/graemlins/wink.gif
All I'm saying is thats what he could have done. It really wouldn't have been too hard. In the end, either way, it's really nothing.
The reds are $5, the greens are $25. There are other colors but they're not that visible.
The stories behind it are here (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=cardroom&Number=1378750&fp art=&PHPSESSID=) and here (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=cardroom&Number=1409110&fp art=&PHPSESSID=) . In the first thread look for the trip reports written by scrub.
I kinda figured that once the person didn't come down they had already called the place and complained. My calling and trying to explain what happened would likely only complicate the matter. Also, if you're pulling in $14 for [censored][/i]ing bagels somehow, giving a freebie now and then isn't going to break you.
Lazymeatball
12-20-2004, 02:24 PM
I'm on page 5 of 6 of this trip report, Scrub, or whoever ghostwrites for him is f'ing hilarious.
codewarrior
12-20-2004, 02:25 PM
$14 was shockingly close to the price of your sushi? What, you ordered like 4 pieces? Hut.
BullChip
12-20-2004, 03:18 PM
You are not an ass
Edit: Sushi is best tasteful fresh out the hands of the Sushi-maker. The longer it sits, the worse it tastes. Especially if you pop it in the fridge cuz the rice gets too hard and cold.
I would've done the same, at least you tried.
My sush ended up being $18, I usually don't pay much attention when I find out the price since its not like I'm gonna change my order at that point.
In case you care I got a spicy tuna roll and a chicken teryaki dinner.
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