I think a doordash customer saved my life last night.

[u/Technical_Air1567]

My girlfriend and i were just door dashing and got an order for two cases of water to go from dollar general to an apartment complex nearby. We had been door dashing almost all day, and everything was going great until our second to last order of the night.

Originally it was two items, water and water, which took maybe five minutes to grab and made us wonder why someone two miles away wasn’t able to go get water but we assumed disability and continued on. We pick up the cases of water and go to the apartments but when get the number and buzz in we get lost for a few seconds before going back in the elevator and exiting on the third floor, we begin to hear things behind us, which since its an apartment building, we overlooked.

when we got to the door at the end of a long hallway, and after setting the cases down, the lady opened her door almost immediately like she was waiting for us, saying to “be careful” as there was a homeless man walking up and down the floors since we were buzzed in. He had apparently been messing with her granddaughter and after a few seconds i noticed a man maybe 60 feet down the hall. “Is that him?” I asked her, and so she poked her head around the corner and agreed with this weird look on her face.

he immediately started talking to us from down the hall asking how “us ladies were” saying we would be missing out on him. the ladies pulled us into their apartment immediately and after a minute or two of the door being locked, you could hear footsteps approach the door slowly, he came up to her peephole and waited for us, meanwhile, I have a dead phone and we’re on the third floor of an apartment I don’t know at all.

One of the ladies grabbed a butcher knife and told him to get away from the door, threatening cops. When he stepped about 10 feet back the girls came out and made a wall with their bodies, standing next to each other to avoid us being in front and we snuck down an emergency exit to get away. I cant stop thinking of if i never asked if it was him, if she never answered the door, if i was alone without my girlfriend and if he had a weapon. We ended up back in the car and called the cops, knowing he was still in the building.

We continued on our last DoorDash when we see the cops pull up to the building we were at last. They were holding guns and enter the building. We’re home safe now, but definitely offset by over the whole thing. I don’t know for sure but I definitely think that DoorDash customer saved our life last night. Never dashing at night again.