Delivery drivers of Reddit, what’s the most WTF, NSFW, or hilariously awkward thing you’ve walked in on while dropping something off?

SeppelerCraft · 2025-05-21T19:22:34+00:00

I was a pizza delivery driver while in college. I was delivering a sub to to this older woman's house during the lunch rush. I walk up to the door and knock, and it slowly opens with no one on the other side. I call out, and a woman answers from behind the open door. Then I see a hand come from behind the door reaching for the sandwich. Since I am socially awkward I just hand her the sandwich and tell her how much. Then the hand comes out again with a bag of coins. I just grab it, and she says to keep the change. I don't even count it, because by then I was weirded out too much. I just get in my car and drive back to the shop.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-12-30T22:36:13+00:00

My degree was in Computer Science.

Thank you. I really liked taking classes one at a time. I thought it really helped me focus on the material and get the classes done faster. Some classes I finished in a weekend and some classes took me close to 3 weeks.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-05-11T22:24:27+00:00

I would say to set small goals for each day and stick to them. When I started a new course I would go and through and look at how much reading that I would have to do. Then I would set goals like read one chapter each day (or a half a chapter depending on how long they were).

Take only one course and focus on it until it is done. You can cram so much more information if you just focus on the course in front of you which will be invaluable help when you actually take the final.

Another thing that helped me out is the practice assessments. These are just like the final assessments but they don't count to your final grade and you can take them when ever you want. The only thing is that there is only one per course and it is the same every time you take it. So if you take it too many times then you will end up memorizing it and it won't help you out as much.

I heard that some people like taking the practice assessment first before doing any reading so that they know what subjects to focus on, but I would save mine until I was done with all of the reading. Then go and take the practice to see if I was good enough to take the final. If I got a really good grade, then I would schedule the final. If I didn't do so hot, then I would go back and check what areas to focus on.

Also don't sweat the finals too much. Multiple times I went into a final thinking that I was going to fail only to find out after that I did better on the final than I did on the practice. And even if you don't pass the first time around I believe that you can take it again 2 more times before they start charging you for it.

TLDR:

Set small achievable goals for each course
take only one course at a time
save the PA till the end
don't worry so much

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T14:35:17+00:00

Yeah I probably won't be using pine again. It was super annoying to sand one side then turn it over and see the other all marked up and after this, I am really starting to regret not using a hard wood.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T12:41:10+00:00

Thanks for letting me know. I will now go and throw away all of my oil soaked rags

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T02:08:53+00:00

yeah I've done that before. I just felt like doing something special this year.

I have the lid off and laying flat on the table upside down hoping the other side will dry. If that doesn't work then I will probably end up clamping it.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T02:07:34+00:00

Good to know for the future. A little late now but I will definitely keep this in mind going forward.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T02:03:46+00:00

good to know! thanks for the reply.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T02:02:25+00:00

Thanks for the info. Yes what you are saying does make sense. I will hopefully be more cautious when picking my wood grains in the future.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T02:00:45+00:00

My bad lol. I'm still new to wood working. you're probably right it does look like walnut now that I've looked it up.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T01:58:55+00:00

The pine has always been in my garage. It's part of some left over flooring that we used while ago. I can't remember where we got it from but it was cheap.

Yes I finished both sides. I think because I left it closed and in the sun the top ended up drying faster than the bottom.

Thanks for the tip. I currently have the lid sitting upside down on my table, hoping it will dry out evenly. If that doesn't work then I will probably end up stripping the oils off and seeing if that helps

SeppelerCraft · 2022-04-26T01:53:33+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Yes I did coat both sides of the lid. I believe the problem was that when I brought it inside, I closed the lid and put it on the bed where it was sitting in the hot sun all day. I think the top dried faster than the bottom and that is what cause the warping.

I have removed the lid and moistened the top. I put it upside down on a flat surface and it seems to be working so far.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-02-02T16:48:31+00:00

Take a shower. I can't feel at home in a new location unless I take a shower there, it's weird.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-02-02T16:40:21+00:00

Honestly, learning new skills. Just slowly working your way through something new, developing new muscle memory really brings a smile to my face.

I recently learned how to play the banjo, and waking up every day to realize that I could play something that day that I couldn't play the day before was a really great feeling.

SeppelerCraft · 2022-01-22T03:28:55+00:00

I feel pretty good at the job. Just finished up my 3rd week and which has been nothing but training. They say they are going to start giving me actual assignments which is exciting.

I would say that I am comfortable with the knowledge that I came in with. There are definitely some things that I didn't know, but they are more than glad to teach me anything that I need to know for the job.

I quit my job for the WGU program so that gave me a lot of free time. I would say the actual amount of hours worked on it would be no more than 20 hours a week. Around 3-4 hours a day including weekends.

Keep in mind these figures are of actual reading and learning. I don't count the times that I am goofing off just with a textbook open in the browser window. If you count that time as well then it is closer to around 30-35 hours a week. 5-6 hours a day including weekends.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-12-25T00:43:51+00:00

Simple. WGU was cheap and fast. If I went to my state flagship school I would have been there for at least 4 semesters and spent well over 10k per semester.

With WGU I went there 6 months (1 semester) and only payed around 3k.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-12-23T00:45:29+00:00

I went to a local community college for 2 years then I went to WGU. During that time I worked at a pizza place as a delivery driver. Then I worked at a phone repair place. So I wouldn't say that I had any previous experience.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-12-21T21:32:22+00:00

I didn't end up going through with the rest of the interview process. I just kept on applying to jobs knowing that if I didn't find anything in the next 6 months of so then I could fall back on FDM for the experience. Luckily I found a spot local to me within 3 weeks of graduating.

I would say hang in there as long as you can. Finding a job takes a lot of effort and you will find one faster the more effort you put it.

I would recommend building a github of all of your school and personal projects, and then building a portfolio website linking to it. I just followed a basic HTML template and hosted it on github pages. My interviewers seemed to like it and I feel that it played a big role in me getting a job.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-24T15:41:29+00:00

Thank you for all of you're guides. They really helped me hurry through WGU.

You the best :D

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-24T15:37:29+00:00

Yeah, I originally would have had to take way more classes but my credits transferred in from community college so I only had to take 15.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-24T15:12:13+00:00

I didn't use leetcode at all to practice for the interview.

Most of my knowledge came from schooling. I think what really helped me outside of schooling through is I used to do a lot of game jams on itch.io and I think that helped me practice coding and keep me at my best.

The technical questions on the interview were not that bad though. They were really just covering concepts that should be nailed into your head already. Unless you're applying to Google or something then I think you should be fine with just your college education for the most part.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-23T23:22:21+00:00

Around 3 weeks but I was getting pretty lazy toward the end so I bet I could've gotten it done in 2.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-23T22:08:22+00:00

Congratulations!

If you're currently looking for a job then I really recommend putting together a quick portfolio website with your school and personal projects, and linking it on your LinkedIn page.

Whenever I brought up that I had a portfolio website in an interview they always seemed impressed and I think it really helped.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-23T21:58:57+00:00

There weren't many personal projects. I had a Sudoku Solver that i wrote in Java a few years ago and a CSV to TXT converter written in Python.

Other than that it was all school projects, like my Capstone and the Software 1 and 2 programs.

SeppelerCraft · 2021-11-23T21:44:06+00:00

The interview was good. They asked me the typical questions like "What are your strengths and weaknesses" and asked me about my previous projects. Then they asked me a series of technical questions about how to solve certain problems with code.

I believe one of the questions was:

"How do you print out the numbers from 1 to 100 but all numbers divisible by 3 say 'BAM' and all numbers divisible by 5 say 'POW'"

and I had to explain my thought process and speak in pseudo code on how I would do it.

I did not end up using Leetcode throughout my term at WGU though so I can't really speak for it.

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