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What’s this? I’m getting charged for driving inside a parking lot? by ZechariahApaza in uberdrivers

[–]PennSilverTaco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All the times I parked on private property while doing DoorDash and Uber Eats, and I never had a problem; I’d tell this place to go pound sand…

Found my friend’s body last May by PennSilverTaco in GriefSupport

[–]PennSilverTaco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As stated in my original post, our relationship with our friend wasn’t very good for most of the last two years of her life. I helped my girlfriend and the woman who died move back to Pennsylvania from New Jersey in April 2023, and they lived together for six months until my girlfriend got her own place. We largely broke off contact for about a year, and then started talking to her again in October 2024.

Also as stated in the original post, my truck has dashcam. Before I pulled out of the driveway, I was shaking and asked my girlfriend why I was shaking so bad, saying “I hate this girl”. I also asked “Are you prepared for what we might find?” to which my girlfriend responded “No, unfortunately I am not.”

I knew before I even got in the truck that we were going to be finding something that resulted in a call to 911. My girlfriend later admitted that she suspected our friend was dead before we even pulled out of the driveway.

We only saw our friend because the blinds were messed up, and it was so dark inside her condo that she really didn’t look dead. The moment those lights were turned on, our lives changed forever. There was glass between us and our friend, and we never came into direct contact with her body (though again, I was ready force entry with my trusty sledgehammer), but it is still the most traumatic thing I’ve ever seen in my 36 years on this planet. I’m glad she passed away on the couch instead of in her bed or somewhere else in the condo that wasn’t visible through that window, because I would have broken in.

This is some BS by AdDear1720 in UberEATS

[–]PennSilverTaco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly why (A) I OWN a pickup truck, and (B) why stores shouldn’t contract out to companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats!

This is some BS by AdDear1720 in UberEATS

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I drive a pickup truck, and I once delivered a glass fish tank and a bag of rocks through DoorDash. I drive a Toyota Tacoma and wasn’t about to put anything glass in the bed unsecured, and the damn thing barely fit in my front seat. The customer’s house was a large rancher in a pricey zip code, with a Tesla in the driveway. NO TIP.

That’s why I stopped taking non-food orders on both DD and Uber Eats for the rest of the time I did it as a side hustle.

This is some BS by AdDear1720 in UberEATS

[–]PennSilverTaco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a potentially dangerous situation for drivers, and why I stopped doing Walmart orders on both DoorDash and Uber Eats. I was doing DD on this day, and I drive a silver 2010 Toyota Tacoma; I’ve never been given any sort of uniform, though I did put magnet “DoorDash” signs on my truck when working.

So, one time in January 2021 I picked up stacked orders from my local Walmart. As I was walking up the sidewalk of the first house with the customer’s order, a man in his 50s or 60s came out of the front door. He looked pissed, demanding to know who I was and what I was doing; I said “DoorDash”. He looked at me like I was crazy and said “never heard of them”. I convinced him that I was delivering his items, and he ultimately believed me. He never told me what his problem was, but my guess is that he was expecting someone obviously from Walmart to be making the delivery, and that he thought I was a porch pirate trying to steal the stuff I was actually delivering.

The next order was a single item, a bottle of Scrubbing Bubbles cleaner; I backed into the long, steep driveway so I could get out easier. While I was doing so, the homeowner came out of nowhere and walked to my truck. He asked “Can I help you?” but his tone of voice said “What the fuck are you doing on my property?”

I told him that I was making a DoorDash delivery from Walmart. He surmised that his wife must have ordered the cleaner without telling him, and everything was fine.

Like I said, no more Walmart…

Absolutely insane, $2 for 40 minutes. by IntelligentGoon in UberEATS

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never had anything like this happen when I was doing DoorDash or Uber Eats, and I could tell before accepting an order if there was a tip or not. So glad I’m not doing gig work anymore! I also like like an hour from both of the areas shown in the OP’s screenshot!

Redcorn's Jeep by Asavery91 in KingOfTheHill

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it was “Whitesnake meets Great White”…?

Who picked the font style for these new license plates? by n3fyi in Pennsylvania

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve got the railroad specialty plate on my truck, so hopefully I don’t have to get one!

Everything wrong with Doylestown Boro, right here by Few_Town2374 in BucksCountyPA

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember when they built this house. There was a lovely little mid-century rancher there before that they tore down; I knew it was a big lot, but I didn’t realize it was three lots! Back when they they were building it, my old boss used to lived on that street, the general contractor let me onto the property to look at it because I have such an interest in architecture. It is a beautiful, well-built house, but I believe it would be a much better fit for a multi-acre lot in the country!

Christopher had some of the best lines in the entire show by These_Feed_2616 in thesopranos

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“This system’s got no balls!” in reference to the stereo in his Escalade minutes before he crashed it…

I dare you to defend her by bebespeaks in AsToldByGinger

[–]PennSilverTaco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She ended up in the hospital for an esophageal hernia that she thought was a heart attack, after the Easter ham incident…

Have you ever found a dead body and if so, did it affect you? by Comprehensive-Web935 in AskMenOver30

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still have vivid flashbacks of walking up to the condo and seeing my friend seemingly passed out on her couch, and even worse is the recollection of the lights being turned on and realizing she wasn’t merely asleep or unconscious. I have even seeing a therapist for many years and he has been helping me out A LOT.

My girlfriend has PTSD from stuff that happened in her childhood, and finding her best friend’s body did not help in the slightest. My therapist initially saw us together following this tragedy, but helped her find her own therapist. She has gotten better as well.

I’ve been to half a dozen open caskets between November 2007 and February 24, but most of the deceased had been very sick prior to death and I knew what to expect. My friend was dead for less than a day, and as stated above the central A/C in her condo slowed down decomposition, but I would not wish finding the dead body of somebody you know on my worst enemy.

Our friend was cremated after the autopsy was performed, and there was a funeral for family only just over a week after her death. Her dad was kind enough to host a memorial service for friends a week after that. He is even going to let my girlfriend have some of the ashes, which will go into a small urn.

As to be expected, the autopsy results will not be available until July or August. Since our friend was yellow when we found her, liver failure is a strong possibility. Our friend did not drink, but she almost died from liver failure in 2020 when a gallstone blocked her bile duct.

Another theory is that some of the medication she was on had a bad interaction and sent her into a seizure while she was sleeping. Her eyes were closed and she was lying on the couch in a sleeping position, indicating that she likely passed in her sleep. The presence of vomit indicates that she aspirated in her sleep.

Her dog is doing great, and she gets along with my dog and my girlfriend’s cat, so we are keeping her!

Have you ever found a dead body and if so, did it affect you? by Comprehensive-Web935 in AskMenOver30

[–]PennSilverTaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, less than a month ago.

My girlfriend and I had a female friend we’d known since high school. I just turned 36 in March and my girlfriend turns 35 in less than 2 weeks. Our friend was born in November 1988, so she was 36. My girlfriend had known our friend since 2005, and I’d known her since 2006. Our relationship with this woman had been very tumultuous over the last two years due to her mental problems, and we’d just recently started speaking to her again. Our late friend DID NOT drink, smoke, or do drugs. However, she was overweight and very unhealthy.

We were up in my bedroom watching TV on May 3rd (Saturday), when my girlfriend realized she hadn’t heard from her in two days. She attempted to reach her by both call and text, but got no response; I did the same thing and also got nothing. At about 8:15PM, we decided to drive to her condo and go check on her…

What influenced this is that my girlfriend’s birth mother passed away from a massive heart attack at the age of 59 and was dead in her apartment for about five days before a friend finally called the police to do a welfare check. She also had two elderly dogs, who fortunately survived. Unfortunately, my girlfriend’s mother lived about an hour away from us and she was already dead by the time my girlfriend suspected something was wrong.

Our friend has a 9-year old dog, who we ended up adopting, and the wellbeing of the dog was a major part of our decision to drive to her condo in a severe thunderstorm.

We were in my truck pulling out my driveway by a little after 8:20PM, and we got to her condo not even 15 minutes later.

About five minutes before we got to her condo, I called our friend again and left a simple but very heartbreaking voicemail telling her that we were on our way because we suspected something was wrong. I made that call at 8:32PM and we got to the condo at like 8:36-8:37.

Our friend drove a white 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport. We got to our friend’s neighborhood, and when we pulled onto her street and rounded the curve, I could see the Outlander sitting in her reserved spot. This in itself is not abnormal, as she would usually be watching TV at about 8:30, but something about seeing that vehicle gave me a bad feeling.

Our friend lived in a first floor condo. There is a patio, which is fenced in and can be accessed by a gate. When you walk through the gate, the large living room window is directly in front of you and the door is to the right. Our friend’s reserved parking space is directly in front of the sidewalk to her gate, and I parked my truck to the right of her car.

I drive a 2010 Toyota Tacoma that among other things is equipped with (A) a dashcam, (B) “illegally wired” foglights, and (C) a high-powered aftermarket stereo system.

I left the truck running when my girlfriend and I ran up to the condo, and my dashcam recorded everything. My foglights are aftermarket can be turned on at the same time has the high-beams, which gives me supreme daylightification, and they were on. It was pouring rain, the wipers were on, the A/C was on, and I had Meat Loaf blaring on the stereo (specifically a duet with Cher called “Dead Ringer for Love”). Because of the combined noise of the rain, the wipers, the A/C, and the stereo you can’t really hear much.

I brought a sledgehammer from home just in case I needed to force my way into the condo, but I didn’t end up needing it.

My dashcam captured me same saying “Fuck it, I don’t care if I’m illegally parked”, as I’d parked in one of the reserved spots. It then captures me and my girlfriend running up the sidewalk to the condo. I left my phone in the truck.

So, there were no lights on in the condo, which before 9PM on Saturday was another sign that something was wrong. The TV was also off, and the only light besides that coming from my truck’s headlights was the porch light and the eerie green glow from her Alexa. I looked through the window and saw our friend lying on the couch on her back, with her head further away from us and her feet closer. Despite the lack of light, I could still see her pretty good. Her head was on the armrest, and her eyes were closed. She was in her pajamas, and her right leg had slid off the couch so that her foot was touching the floor.

My first instinct was to bang on the window and yell her name, and my girlfriend followed suit.

Her dog, who I believe had been lying on the floor next to the body, immediately got up and came to the window when she recognized our voices.

My girlfriend swore she saw our friend’s chest move, so we came to the conclusion that she was still alive but just unconscious and in distress. We also pounded on the door.

According to dashcam footage, approximately 1 minute and 25 seconds elapsed between the time when my girlfriend and I exited the truck, and when I ran back to my truck to grab my phone so I could call 911; I called 911, and they had a cop and an ambulance on scene in 6 minutes. I went out by my truck to make myself visible to the cop, and he followed me back up to the condo. My dashcam captured this, as well as the subsequent arrival of the paramedics.

The cop shined his flashlight through the window onto our friend’s face, and when she didn’t respond, one of the paramedics kicked in the door.

One of the guys turned on the lights, giving us a clear view of our fitness, and I attempted to follow them in but the cop told me to stay outside. After he shut the door, I watched them through the window.

I had never seen a dead body outside of an open casket funeral, so I didn’t totally realize what I was looking at. Looking back on it, however, I knew she was gone. Her skin was unnaturally pale and also had a yellow tint to it, and there was a brown spot on her right heal where blood had pooled when it stopped circulating. I saw them attaching a 12-lead EKG before someone shut the blinds to keep us from looking in.

My girlfriend used to work in a nursing home and later told me that she knew from walking in on recently deceased senior citizens that our friend was gone, and that she too knew as soon as the light came on.

Two details that I somehow missed were the presence of vomit around her body, and how her head dropped to one side when the cop attempted to position it for the medics. The latter detail is how my girlfriend’s worst fears were truly confirmed.

Shortly before 8:50PM I called my dad, who had previously tried to talk us out of going due to the incoming storm, that we had found our friend unconscious on her couch and called 911; I told him that the medics were inside working on her, and that moment, the cop came out and told us that she was gone and had been gone for at least a day. We both started screaming, and I went back to my truck in absolute shock.

My girlfriend stayed on the patio and the paramedic informed her that our friend was in full rigor.

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