A Delivery Driver Was Caught On Video Appearing To Sip A Milkshake That He Was Delivering

(Source)- A DoorDash driver was caught on camera appearing to take a sip of a milkshake just moments before delivering it to a California residence. Homeowner Rajesh Malhotra, of Stockton, said he didn’t realize what happened until the next morning when he checked the surveillance footage from his doorbell camera. “I looked at it and saw the driver who delivered the food was sipping out of my son’s Coldstone,'” Malhotra told KTXL-TV. “I was like, ‘Woah, that’s crazy. How could someone jeopardize the product like that, especially food?'” The cookies-and-cream shake was for Malhotra’s 14-year-old son, Rishab.

I get that customers are at the mercy of people in the food industry. If you piss off a waiter or insult a chef, you deserve everything that’s coming to you. But you can’t have a delivery man sipping on a thick milkshake that is definitely bringing some of your saliva and germs back into the cup with it, no matter how suave your fit is. That violates the unspoken pact between delivery drivers and delivery orderers. You can take some of my bag fries and help yourself to a nugget. It’s as close to a victimless and perfect crime as there is in the delivery game. But drinking out of a straw is simply uncouth and uncalled for, not to mention stupid. Thanks to porch pirates, every other house in the country appears to have a doorbell cam these days. In case being caught red-handed on camera wasn’t enough, any milkshake worth its salt will leave blatant evidence of a sip behind because the straw will have some remaining residue from the sip. So if you are going to be a disgusting, thieving delivery man, at least have the sense to steal one of the food on the approved list or at least have the decency to do it in your car where there are no cameras so someone’s faith in delivery drivers isn’t broken.

Actually now that I think about it, if this driver’s job was on the line and he testified that he physically couldn’t resist a cookies and cream milkshake, I think I’d have to give him a pass. Milkshakes are one of those things that are almost impossible to turn down once they get into your head. Like all I can think about right now is the cool sensation of ice cream going through the straw, into my mouth, and then tiny pieces of cookie breaking up the consistency absolutely perfectly. Fuck, I am definitely going to knock myself out of ketosis after I hammer down an entire Coldstone milkshake at lunch because of this fucking family, aren’t I? Damn you, Rajesh. The delivery man may be Guilty but I rule this case a No Contest. Clem’s Food Court is adjourned!