Grocery Store Construction Workers Tore Up the Neighbor’s Driveway—So a Delivery Driver Set the Shopping Carts Free in Wet Concrete
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Just because someone seems nice doesn’t mean that you want to cross them. You never know what they’re capable of when they’re angry.
In this story, one delivery driver is really angry, and he has a very good reason to feel that way. In fact, he’s not the only person who’s angry. When he tells his boss why he’s angry, his boss is furious.
They both get revenge on the business next door.
Let’s read all about it.
Tear open our driveway to pour concrete? Fine, you’ll probably enjoy having to dig the concrete out of the ground. Twice.
Not about me, but about a guy I used to work with. He was a mountain of a guy, a huge Turk, but the kindest guy I ever met.
He’d do anything for people he liked.
Nobody ever saw anybody get on this bad side until that fateful day.
Now, here’s some context about this guy’s job.
As it happens, he was also our delivery driver, and he spent most days on the road in his semi, leaving before dawn and returning quite late, if at all that day.
Our warehouse had a driveway large enough for him to pull the semi into, and load/unload.
The supermarket next door decided to do some renovations, and expand. When they started construction, they started tearing out their brick parking lot, and getting close to tearing out our driveway.
Oh no!
Boss runs out, tells them where our property line is, and is assured they won’t cross onto our property.
Everybody goes back inside, nobody worries, until there’s suddenly a raging bear-Turk standing in the break room, shouting about how the driveway has been torn up and he can’t get his lorry in.
We go out, and indeed, the driveway is half missing, and there’s a concrete building foundation poured in.
Construction workers are nowhere in sight, boss sends the supermarket manager an e-mail message, and everybody goes home.
The delivery driver got revenge!
Next day we arrive to the sight of very angry construction workers.
Apparently, the delivery driver went back in the middle of the night with some bolt-cutters, ‘liberated’ about 30 of their shopping carts, and stuck them into the drying concrete in various comical positions.
Overnight, the concrete hardened, and the carts became quite difficult to remove.
Construction crew brings in the jackhammers, and four days later, most of the concrete is gone, and they start preparing for another pour, this time leaving our driveway intact.
But it wasn’t over yet!
Foundation comes out fine, everything is looking good.
At that time, my boss shows up with the announcement that he had a survey done, and while they didn’t tear open our driveway the second time, they were still closer to our property line than allowed, and he’d already filed a complaint to get the concrete removed.
Took them another week of jack-hammering to get it out.
Wow! Well played!
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Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.
This person is confused.
Another person calls the Turk a legend.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a helicopter inspector who grounds a flight after the pilot is rude to him.
This person has a lot of questions.
And another person is glad he wasn’t the foreman.
I’m not sure how a construction crew would get the job that wrong, but they sure did. It sounded like the grocery store was on their neighboring business’s side and not trying to do anything shady. It was all the construction crew’s fault.
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