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Delivery story 478

Kilan writes:

The first week I ever started a delivery job was for a Japanese place in Jacksonville, NC. Any restaurant in that area (unless there are multiple locations) delivers to 4 different Marine bases, 2 of which are filled with lower ranking students who don't make much money.

Anywho, I got a order to one of the barracks at Camp Johnson, which is one of the training commands with students. The order was paid by credit card and I didn't notice until I started to walk away that the guy had only signed the bottom and didn't fill in the tip or total lines, so I went back and knocked and when he opened the door again, I handed him back the receipt and explained to him that although I am not that dishonest, there are some people who would write in whatever they wanted to tip themselves so, in the future, he needs to fill those receipts out completely. So he filled it out and gave it back and said thanks and I walked away again, heading back to the car, then looked down at the receipt to see he had written $30.00 on the tip line. Wanting to make sure it wasn't a mistake, I went back and knocked again and asked if he meant to write that and he goes, "Hell yea I did! Maybe if more people were rewarded for honesty, there would be more of it in the world."

I've been a delivery driver for about a year now and it's still one of the two highest tips I've ever gotten. The only one bigger was a $45 tip from an awesome bondwoman who was a repeat customer and just a really nice person in general. All of us drivers would fight over who got to deliver her food.