Minimum: Adventures of a Delivery Idiot

Been a while. I’m actually feeling better. For a while now. I guess getting a job changes a person. I just felt like talking about some of the things I learned the past month working as a delivery driver. So I work about 20 hr a week. Not much, but I have college to think about. I work the graveyard shift so It’s been fucking with my sleep schedule. Finding an apartment at 2 am in the rain kind of sucks. Tips are ok sometimes. Sometimes not. I messed up an order once and the lady was really mad. I already felt tired and terrible cause it was 3 am. It was cold and I forgot a jacket. I couldn’t find a way into their apartment thing so I jumped a fence with a bag and a 2 L bottle of coke. There was an opening a few feet down I found out later. The apartment number on the ticket was wrong so I had to call several times to get it. Thing was cold and they wanted Dr. Pepper instead of Coke. They got mad and told me that we always fuck up their order and closed the door in my face. I felt like shit. They later called saying they wanted their food after all. I remade it and got Dr. Pepper. I remember the apartment number so it wasn’t hard finding it this time. She took the food and gave me a tip. I felt like shit. Cried a little afterwards. I wrote about how I got a sense of pride after working the job for a little over a week. At that moment I realized how dumb that was and at the end of the day I was a stupid delivery boy and having pride about that was retarded. Thing is, I bounced back. I didn’t have time to think about it and there was more work to be done. I quickly got over it. My coworkers are interesting people. Not naming names, in case this gets found out, but a lot of them do drugs and one of them is a dealer. One of them brought a weird canister full of a strange green-yellow liquid, and the other got mad and told them not to bring it into the shop. I asked what it was and he said gasoline. This is when we had customers. When we were closing, I saw the similar looking liquid in an empty coke bottle. They offered me some. Looked gross so I said no. I asked what it was and some guy said methadone. I was confused and didn’t know what it was. I googled it later. Even later I put two and two together and realized that it wasn’t gasoline in the canister. A couple of them have been to jail. Alcohol abuse, drug possession, assault. Some of them have kids. 24 yr old has a toddler who lives in another town. He’s my manager and nice. Always tells me when I can work extra hours and called me a good driver. I had a nice conversation with a single mom with a 6 mo old. She might be younger than me or a bit older than me. She was nice. She told me how she used to be angry and upset, but after having the kid and seeing her smile, she mellowed. She wants to go to college later when she grows up a little. She asked if I had any, and I said no. She said that I’m young and I have time. She sounds very mature for someone with not that much of an age difference from me. I said I didn’t have kids and I’ve never even been in a relationship. She asked why and if I even wanted to be in a relationship. I simply said I’m no good with people. She said I seem good with people. She’s really nice. Three people have been fired in the month I’ve been around. Two of them managers. I felt bad for one of them. He was an older gentleman that reminds me of my grandpa. He insists of doing things his way even if it’s not the right way. His 20 yr old son also works there. I’m terrified of getting fired so I always show up 15 min early and never argue and do what I’m told. On average, I get 25-30 on tips. Past two shifts I got 5.50. Oh well. Working the graveyard shift is scary. I’m always afraid of getting robbed or getting shot for being around apartments at 3 am. Also our store is right by the bars and I work on Friday and Saturday nights. I’m always cautious because I don’t want to run over drunk people. One time scheduling got mixed up so it was just me and a manager working a weekday. It was tough closing, since it was only the two of us closing. Took 3 hrs to get everything clean. We played songs over a speaker and he sung to some of them. He can sing Bohemian Rhapsody really well.
Well that’s all. Thanks for reading if you did.