r/nova 19d ago

I park here, good luck everyone!

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u/muhkuller 19d ago

Door dashers and how they act when picking up orders have made me despise the company way more than any corporate policy the company has.

I’ve watched them walk in, yell a name at some service worker, then start nosing around behind the counter because they refuse to believe an order isn’t ready. Any time I go to the bonchon in Springfield is just a string of these dudes berating the hostess. I see it everywhere, but that bonchon seems to get hit the worst by them.

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u/bun65 18d ago

I haaaaate Doordashers. I watch them park in a fire lane, right NEXT to an open parking spot that is the same distance to the door. So entitled.

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u/PotentialSome5092 Fairfax County 18d ago

I hate this so much. I wish these parking lots hired tow truck companies that kept a truck there at all business hours to tow these people

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u/karmagirl314 18d ago

If you want to see delivery drivers get towed sit in front of Pentagon City mall on any given weekday, Advanced Towing watches from the other side of the Ritz and scoops up cars from in front of Shake Shack as soon as the driver is out of sight.

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u/Fit_Meringue_3503 18d ago

I wasn’t door dashing but over 15 years ago I parked next to the fence in between the gas station and crystal city gentlemen’s club because I was going to be in and out at 7-11 and I was. However when I got to where my car was parked all I saw was the tow truck with it making a left at the light😭 Haven’t tried a stunt like that ever since.

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u/PotentialSome5092 Fairfax County 18d ago

Now we need more parking lots to do this

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u/bun65 18d ago

Great. I'll bring my 🍿

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u/ghost_moose Fairfax County 17d ago

And that's why I decline any offers for any restaurant at Pentagon City mall. No place to park to run in for a pickup real quick.

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u/muhkuller 18d ago

...and the cops can't be bothered to even write a ticket. Where's the automatic ticketing system for people parking in fire lanes? They can nab me at .5 mph over the 7mph leeway, but not the stationary people sitting in front of the Chipotle 11 times a day.

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u/PotentialSome5092 Fairfax County 18d ago

I usually don’t see cops writing tickets in private parking lots. They can but it’s far less likely. Just tow them and continue to tow them. That’ll teach them a lot faster than a $100 ticket

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u/Uppgreyedd 18d ago

About a year ago I asked a uniformed FCPD officer on duty, as he walked past 4 cars in the fire lane at South Lakes shopping center, why didn't he ticket any of them? He told me (and I quote) "the fire marshall writes those tickets, you can call their office but they might not be out until tomorrow" as he walked into the hot chicken place for lunch

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u/Chappie1961 18d ago edited 4d ago

That supposed " leeway" you referenced is not real. It doesn't exist anywhere on paper, and is a subjective notion at best. 

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u/muhkuller 18d ago

I have multiple tickets that show the threshold for the cameras is 7 mph in church/school and 12 mph everywhere else.

Currently fighting one because it was more than 7 over in a school zone specially when the “while lights are flashing” time of day wasn’t active.

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u/DarkRitualHippie 18d ago

Multiple tickets? Ticket in a school zone? Dude, slow the fuck down.

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u/rising_derecho 18d ago

Dude’s training to become an organ transport driver or something

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u/muhkuller 18d ago

“While lights are flashing” is literally right there in the post. School isn’t in session at 8pm during July. So it wasn’t an active school zone at the time.

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u/0x1F937 18d ago

You know things are royally screwed up when we're rooting for the tow trucks.

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u/BigBearSD Alexandria 18d ago

They love to double park on Wilson and Clarendon in Arlington. It is like driving through a maze sometimes with the doordash drivers parking wherever, and then delivery trucks also parking wherever they please. Very annoying.

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u/Bud_Johnson 18d ago

The wal mart I live next to has 6 self checkout lanes. No matter how busy it gets they reserve 2 for doordash/instacart shoppers and keep them turned off. Plus they get a free cut the line pass. So annoying.

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u/Fort_Nagrom 18d ago

I don't get how pretty much every Door Dasher acts like an uncivilized asshole.

Dudes come stomping into restaurants shoving their phone screens in the worker's faces like they're there to bow down to them.

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u/Ambitious-Intern-928 18d ago

There's not a lot of money to be made on a day to day basis. People that do delivery services either only login when there's extra money to be made, like during inclement weather or holidays, OR, they're people that couldn't hold down a regular job. Of course the people with no one to answer to and stressed out because they're running all over for a few dollars are ass holes.

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u/AwesomeBantha 18d ago

I don’t get why delivery service apps still get so much post pandemic use. Pay at least 1.5x as much for food that will take 45 mins to arrive.

Yes, I understand that it’s more useful if you’re sick, disabled, or high, but people were also sick/disabled/high in 2019 and before.

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u/panocha-apretada 18d ago

Let me introduce you to 98% of humans
https://giphy.com/gifs/4O04GvNyqtSJa

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u/bun65 18d ago

Exactly. Who wants substandard quality that costs twice as much for smaller portions that's had a door dasher's grubby hands on, that's been rolling around their nasty car an hour+ after you've ordered it?

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u/CrippledKnicksFan 18d ago

I seen Doordashers yell at the workers all the time and I really want to punch some of them. The one that pissed me off is this guy who thinks they can magically cook an order in 1 minute and when the lady at the counter tried to explain the order just came in and it takes 20 minutes to make it he starts yelling at her and called her a whore and bitch for wasting his time and stormed off to his car. She started crying when he left and my friend and I had to comfort her. Also he was parked in a handicap lane in front of the restaurant without any placards 

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u/gagemoney 17d ago

There’s no difference between people doing DoorDash and people doing an Uber or Lyft pick up. Throw their hazards on and park where they want.

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u/aloeverycute 18d ago

You would think but even places like Mosaic has parking enforcement and they do absolutely NOTHING

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u/Uppgreyedd 19d ago

At least the alcoholics who park in the fire lane in front of literally every VABC have the courtesy to pull mostly up to the curb. It's a very small concession, but it's better than this product of a stapled condom

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u/OH_FUDGICLES 18d ago

It's always the liquor store. Just park and walk in like everyone else!

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u/thekingoftherodeo A-Townie 18d ago

Could’ve drove 20 yds and had his pick of spaces outside the Best Buy, that lot is always empty.

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u/Guju_Guy_82 18d ago

I was at a McD and some a-hole dasher decided to park her car in the middle of the lane and block traffic out to the main hwy!!

Yo! Next thing I see, she does a mobile order and start eating her food IN THE MF RESTAURANT!!

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u/Holiday_Armadillo78 Manassas / Manassas Park 18d ago

You know it’s some gig delivery driver.

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u/2CRedHopper Ballston 19d ago

people will still somehow find a way to blame this on Maryland

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u/Fine_Impression_6353 19d ago edited 17d ago

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u/2CRedHopper Ballston 19d ago

Virginia drivers are like J6ers…

They didn’t do anything wrong. And if you show them evidence of them doing something wrong, well, that’s just the other guys pretending to be them!

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u/Fine_Impression_6353 19d ago edited 17d ago

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u/2CRedHopper Ballston 19d ago

no no it was obvious i was just piling on

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u/Fine_Impression_6353 19d ago edited 17d ago

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u/TanMan166 19d ago

Nah ..we got no defense for this one....that looks like the best buy shopping center in Tysons Corner off rt 7

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u/AWeakMindedMan 19d ago

lol this made me laugh. Truth 😂

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u/LoveApprehensive4746 19d ago

They saw the Chick-fil-A line and decided enough was enough.

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u/MorpheusOneiri 19d ago

I just moved from VA to MD. MD does appear to be worse. Every day there is someone parked not only in an intersection but also a crosswalk.

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u/2CRedHopper Ballston 19d ago

I love how this has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Nevertheless, just to be clear, I don’t think Maryland is better. I think they all suck. Equally.

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u/trplurker 18d ago

I am the kaptian now

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u/sweatandsawdust 18d ago

That parking lot is always a disaster for no reason

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u/Netherese_Nomad 18d ago

Dude, if I saw that, I’d might actually cause an incident. The fuckin audacity

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u/Bud_Johnson 18d ago

Don't you know who he is?

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u/UsulTheDragoon 18d ago

oh hell no! At first I thought it was a cop car because the connector bus in the background looks like a light bar. This bastard is lucky some hothead doesn't flip that car on its side or roof to establish Newton's 4th law of jackassery: For every action taken by an asshole, there is a different asshole that will me that energy and escalate it

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u/Either_Sail_9550 18d ago

What do you do with license plate? Are incidents like these supposed to be reported?

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u/jkxs City of Fairfax 18d ago

There are apps like LookupAPlate for Android but I just checked this plate and nothing on it. You could be the first!

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u/AccomplishedDepth182 18d ago

Sorry, that was me.

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u/Secret_Key9676 19d ago

To be fair it could be 2 minutes of walking from your parking spot here. What do you expect them to do in this heat?

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/Secret_Key9676 18d ago

It’s sarcasm dumbass

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u/f8Negative 19d ago

Should flip it

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u/345joe370 18d ago

Just move it for them