Her Lawn Became A Delivery Driver’s Parking Spot, So She Asked Him To Move To The Concrete
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Imagine driving a delivery truck. If you were delivering a package to someone who lived in the country, where would you park the truck? Would you park on the road, in their driveway, or on the grass?
Unless it’s a very long driveway, I would assume the best place to park would be on the road. I definitely don’t think it would be okay to park in the grass.
The delivery driver in this story certainly didn’t feel the same way. He regularly parked in one homeowner’s grass, and one day, she finally decided to confront him about it.
Keep reading to see how he responded.
AIO-Stop destroying my yard
I live on a private road with a long one way driveway in a very small town.
Due to my isolated location we have to order a lot of stuff online when we don’t want to drive 2 hours to the “big city”.
Most delivery drivers are kind and quick and deliver my packages mostly intact.
This would be annoying.
There is one guy though who likes to park the truck in my yard and organize the back.
I get it, stuff gets jostled and falls and you need to fix it, that’s fine, just not parked on my grass!
I live in the south in a high rain area so my grass yard is pretty soft year round.
It really is important to stay off the grass.
A family member got his car stuck after a bad rain and we let everyone know to NOT park in the grass.
Not only can you get stuck, it also damages the yard.
Thankfully we have a large open section at the end of the drive that is more than wide enough for even a delivery truck to turn around in (this is what most do).
No one needs to actually drive in the grass to turn around.
She decided to confront a delivery driver about the problem.
I come outside one day and see a delivery truck turned completely off and the entire truck is on the grass.
This had happened multiple times and I was fed up and decided to ask him to move.
I walked over and asked if everything was ok and he said yes, just reorganizing and that he will be done in about 20 mins.
I then politely asked if he could move the truck to the concrete to do this since he is damaging the yard. I said that the turn around at the end has more than enough room and asked him to please be mindful of the heavy rains that we get and that the ground is very soft.
He definitely didn’t like what she had to say.
He gave me a look like I was asking him to do something terrible and then said I will do it later, got in the drivers seat and left.
Fine, whatever.
But now, he is annoyed and passive aggressive when delivering packages and makes no effort to be gentle.
All I asked was that he not park a giant truck with and actual ton of weight on my soft squishy yard, possibly getting stuck and making damage. Am I overreacting?
I think she should report him to the company he works for. He’s damaging her yard, and now, he’s possibly damaging her packages.
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Let’s see what Reddit suggests.
It really does seem obvious.
Here’s a suggestion.
Another person has a good suggestion.
Here’s another vote for reporting the driver.
She should definitely report the driver.
If he can’t do his job without damaging property or packages, he should get a different kind of job.
I don’t think she did anything wrong, but the driver definitely seems bad at his job.
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