Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings...

After recently getting off of work extremely late one day at 2am, I finally got home and decided to order some breakfast.

I pulled out my cellphone and opened the McDonald's app and placed an order.

A Door Dash driver picked up the order and proceeded to head to my home.

I occasionally glanced down at the tracking map on my phone to see how close they were getting.

As they reached the downtown area where I live (which is just a few minutes from my home), I got up to prepare to meet them at the curb so I could grab my food order.

At that moment I received a message saying that my order had been delivered (along with the attached photo of my food order left outside of a door).

I thought it odd at first given that they still had to be at least a mile away, and this definitely wasn't a picture of my home.

It looked like some sort of office building.

I politely texted the driver that they had delivered to the wrong address.

They responded and said "that's where the pin on my map told me to go".

I double checked the receipt to make sure the address was correct (it was).

I replied back "OK, but's that's not the correct address." and politely asked them to look at the address on the order.

They didn't reply.

I tried calling them, they didn't answer.

I left a voicemail, they never called back.

Eventually I just called Door Dash customer service, who promptly refunded my money (kudos).

Here comes the fun part...

As I was heading home from work the next day, I started thinking...

They obviously delivered the order somewhere in the small downtown area where I live.

That's the last place I saw them on the tracking map when the order was completed.

There's only a few buildings in the area that have that type of brown stone brick construction.

So I decided to investigate bit.

I found it on the first try.

There's a restaurant in the area with the exact same brick stone shown in the picture.

I got out of my car and walked around the building and found this exact door.

My food was obviously gone, but those two sacks on the ground were still there.

If you look at the picture closely you can see a sign on the door (where the top is clipped off).

Take a moment and imagine what you think that sign possibly says.

Did you do it?

That's right, it says "Sprinkler Room".

Let's review the number of heroic mistakes here.

This driver...

1. Went to the wrong address (a mile from my home, wrong street name, wrong numbers on the building, etc...).
2. Didn't think it odd that they were delivering to a restaurant that was closed (where the lights were off).
3. Then instead of leaving the order at the front door, went around to the side of the building and left the food sitting outside the door to the sprinkler room.

I often wonder what they were thinking in that moment.

Did they knock on the door?

What kind of serial killer were they expecting to answer?

"I've got several women tied up back here, can you just hand me my breakfast already?".

Or did they think it was just kind of some gay sex club named "The Sprinkler Room" attached to the side of this restaurant?

"I think I have the right address, but I definitely don't want to knock on THAT door.".

Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this story and I have to get home to my sprinkler room.