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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GillEagan" data-source="post: 1973966" data-attributes="member: 56154">I have had a lot of things happen since I have been doing this. Some of the drivers have told me some things as well.Two years ago:Had a customer startle me at night in a dark area. Came across a guy who's mental faculties were not all there in front of a house. Ended up addressing some other person who was standing in the door way and ignored the person out front. The driver and I put a TV in the back yard of some customer and saw a golden retriever cringing in a corner of the back yard. Delivered 50 some odd items to a house of which 20 of the items was computer paper. Saw a 5 year old on a bicycle directly behind the truck on the back up monitor. The driver told me that one time he had a kid get on the back of his truck and refused to get off. The mother comes out and yells at the driver because he is yelling at the kid to get off instead of scolding her kid. Saw a sign that said 'Knock and run' at some house. The driver was a bit disappointed at my reaction to the sign. I came back to the truck as if nothing was wrong. The driver asked if I saw the sign. I said yes that I did and thought it was rather funny.  The driver then told me that most helpers usually come running back to the truck. Delivered to a condo were the occupants had left and didn't latch their door behind them. My knocking caused the door to swing open to my astonishment. After I realized no one was home, I just reached in and closed the door. On my way back to the truck I ran across the driver and a customer who followed us back to the truck. The customer was complaining about how the last driver had supposedly broke a sink that was delivered. Of course the replacement sink was on the truck and so we put it next to the customer's door. Later when we got near the boundary to an indian reservation, I asked the driver if he had ever delivered on the reservation before. He said no but he knew a driver that does. Here's what he told me about what this driver experienced. The driver had delivered to a trailer where the indians had removed the interior walls and floors and were living in it like that. Another indian had pulled a gun on the driver at another stop on the reservation. Since it happened on tribal lands, UPS could only flag the address as customer pick up only. Later that day the driver and I delivered to some high rise condos where an elderly lady called the condo security on the driver. Security just went up there to calm the lady down. Last year:A secretary at some business went on some spiel on how she was a temp. I just grinned at her and said 'That's ok. So am I.' She gets this surprised look on her face and says 'Really?' The look on her face was priceless. Tried to deliver to a business that was closed on Christmas Eve but someone forgot to lock up. The driver thought that the business had refused the shipment until I told him what had happened.This year:Had this happen <a href="http://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/came-across-a-very-nosey-and-rude-neighbor-of-a-customer.367547/" target="_blank">http://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/came-across-a-very-nosey-and-rude-neighbor-of-a-customer.367547/</a>Came across some stealthy dogs one of which sniffed at the bottoms of my shoes while I was waiting for a package from the driver. Another tailed me back to the truck without me knowing it. It backed off when I entered the truck. After delivering to a house, the driver got a call from a seasonal driver. He was on the phone with the seasonal driver near the back of the truck when the customer went to get the package and let a dog out as well. I backed up onto the truck real fast and the driver yelled at the dog. Then ran around to the driver side of the truck and looked back at the dog from the driver's side of the truck. Had a customer who let a dog out with them that was not a threat but just barked at me. I give the package to the customer and they take it inside without calling the dog in or securing it inside. They just left it out there to bark at me. I didn't want to turn my back to the dog and head back to the truck because of the dog's natural predator instincts. The dog's body language told me that it was the type that would retreat if approached. So I take two steps toward the dog and it retreats into the doorway. I close the security screen door and head back to the truck. The customer says 'Thank you.' as I am heading back to the truck.</blockquote>

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