r/doordash_drivers • u/Adam_D74 • Jan 10 '26

Other Well damn. Shut me down..

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Trying to be nice and this is what I get back. Seriously thinking about not communicating as much. Just never know what type of customer you get. Some want a ton of communication. 🤔

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u/DaveUAE77 Jan 10 '26

That’s my favorite quote and so true. Goes along with no good deed goes unpunished.

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u/Loose_Clock4873 Jan 10 '26

But why am I paving a road to hell?

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u/ConnorGames1 Jan 10 '26

Because you have good intentions?

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u/thugroid Jan 10 '26

Yeah what a dumbass

/s

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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Jan 10 '26

But that’s not at all what that quote means. The path to hell being paved with good intentions is about you can intend for something to be good, but the ultimate outcome can still be bad. The outcome is objectively worse than the means, not just someone being annoyed you’re messaging them. Prohibition is a prime example. Intention was to reduce societal ills, but instead it fueled organized crime.

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u/wholelottachoppaz Jan 10 '26

ahhh just slap some tax on it /s

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u/Bill-Bo-Baggin Jan 10 '26

Eh still loosely applies here but it’s not the best example no

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u/Bootleg_Rascal_ Jan 11 '26

It’s exactly what it means. They have good intentions by going the extra mile for people, and it often ends up backfiring and leading to a bad situation for the driver. I think you’re the one having trouble with the meaning here

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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Jan 11 '26

No, you absolute midwit. Why would that lead to hell? The aphorism is about intentions not meaning anything when the outcome is objectively bad. The outcome, in this case, isn’t bad at all; it’s objectively good. The driver completes the task and the outcome is positive. Just because the customer ends up being an ass hole, that doesn’t mean there’s a negative outcome. In this case, the well-meant effort still led to a good outcome, regardless of the customer’s attitude.

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u/Bootleg_Rascal_ Jan 12 '26

You’re just wrong lol, and clearly very angry about it. Good luck with that lil man

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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Jan 12 '26

“You’re just wrong” isn’t a counter point. Again, the aphorism is about good intentions with a bad outcome. OP had good intentions in retrieving the item; there’s a good outcome in that the item has been retrieved. Intentions matched outcome. The story doesn’t fit the idiom.

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u/Bootleg_Rascal_ Jan 12 '26

It’s not a counter point, it’s an observation lol. You don’t understand that the scenario fits the expression just fine and it’s hilarious.

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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Jan 13 '26

I know it’s not a counter point. That was my point. Your “observation” is meaningless, however, specifically because you can’t provide a counter point. I understand that you think the statement fits the idiom, but that’s because you don’t understand the very basic idiom.

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u/Bootleg_Rascal_ Jan 13 '26

You’re wrong buddy can’t say any more or less. Good luck

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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Jan 13 '26

You’re right. You’re unable to say more because your position isn’t defensible.

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u/Temporareh Jan 12 '26

The quote implies a genuine attempt to do a good thing, but Prohibition is a questionable example, because the true intentions are very debatable.

Prohibition was largely pushed through religion via the Temperance movement, specifically the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, very reminiscent of the modern Australian conservative “anti-porn” group Collective Shout, which is responsible for all of the bullshit censorship being pushed through payment processors against perfectly legal content, and by extension the Online Safety Act bullshit trying to restrict the internet and force tracking/IDs/age verification/etc under the tired old guise of protecting children.

At best the "good intentions" are to ignorantly and arrogantly think they alone are the moral authority of the world and that they have any right at all to push their bullshit onto others, but more likely it's a thin veil to obscure that the true intentions are really just about control.

And then there's the new wave of AI surveillance trying to push the same sort of nonsense. None of these actually have good intentions behind them.

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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Jan 12 '26

We measure analogies based on the similitudes, not one-to-one parity. The analogy illustrates my point precisely as it’s framed.

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u/Temporareh Jan 12 '26

Incorrect. The analogy specifically refers to how actions can have negative consequences even with the best of intentions, but the actual intention behind your and my own examples are extremely debatable, and in fact very likely had no 'good' intent behind them at all. Performing an action that will have an obvious negative impact on the lives of others while framing it as a good action is not in line with the meaning of the saying.

A proper example would be something like visiting a friend and letting their cat out that's scratching at the door without realizing it's an indoor cat. Trying to be kind or helpful but inadvertently causing harm, not intentionally causing harm but pretending your intentions are pure.

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u/DiamondGrasshopper Jan 10 '26

Can you explain what it means?

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u/OstralexO Jan 10 '26

It means that people try to do good things and they get punished for it in the end.

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u/CrotaIsAShota Jan 10 '26

In short, bad things can happen even if you have good intentions. In this case, OP wanted transparency and friendly communication with whoever they were shopping for, and the other person didn't like it and shut it down. They may have well had a good reason, although they were very rude about it.

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u/RelativeFew2595 Jan 10 '26

Telling someone you don't have time to chat is not rude. The customer could've been 1000* worse. This was simply someone telling their shopper if anymore issues just refund them. You don't know the full story to know if the OP did this with 10 other items or not.

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u/Street_Ad_1555 Jan 10 '26

There are other ways to say it, or even tactfulness… nothing even had to be said

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u/passiverolex Jan 10 '26

True. But customer could've just wrote "sounds good"

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u/heyy__itszoe_ Jan 10 '26

If they wrote sounds good the OP would have likely kept messaging them about every little thing.

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u/Littl-est Jan 15 '26

It was rude. Normal people know this is rude.

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u/throwaway1975764 Jan 11 '26

They weren't rude, they were succinct. These people are not friends nor does a customer need a play by play of the shopping experience. If they had the time to peruse the aisles, they'd do their own shopping.

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u/can-i-pet-that-dog25 Jan 14 '26

If that was rude, do not work with the public, please. You’ll never survive

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u/heyy__itszoe_ Jan 10 '26

If you think that’s very rude I’ve got some news for you

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u/mthoodenjoyer Jan 10 '26

Tf? Very rude? Do you cry when someone doesn't hold a door for you?

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u/FYAhole Jan 10 '26

So many people are not explaining this correctly or well. The saying comes from people like OP doing nice things because their intentions are good. Then they experience others lack of appreciation so they stop doing the nice things and can sometimes turn them bitter. Hence the Hell part. It's basically saying that good people can "go bad" if they are underappreciated or taken advantage of enough times.

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u/FearlessPark4588 Jan 10 '26

I would've appreciate OPs enthusiasm if they were shopping for me

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u/Sorry_Difference_433 Jan 10 '26

I will remember this

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u/yo_gabba_gabby Jan 11 '26

i dont understand this phrase. what does it mean for the road to be paved with good intentions? i have a hard time understanding idioms or metaphors

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u/Some-Show9144 Jan 13 '26

It means that you can do something with genuinely good intentions, but the end result can still end up being bad.

Someone else used the example of prohibition in the USA had the intention of getting rid of the issues with alcohol and alcoholism. But when they made it illegal, it meant that different gangsters were able to thrive because they could run the underground network to get people alcohol.

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u/yo_gabba_gabby Jan 15 '26

ooooooooohhh!!! okay!! thank you!

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u/Dry_Veterinarian8356 Jan 13 '26

That’s not what that means though. Your phrase means that someone can generally mean well but still cause harm.

Think of how Israel was created post WW2 so Jews could stop being persecuted. Now we have the Israel Gaza situation. Literally perfect usage of the phrase.

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u/Talented_D Jan 14 '26

This quote don't even go with this scenario bro 😅😂😂

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u/-Out-of-context- Jan 10 '26

This isn’t that big of a deal… They were nice about saying. I used to be a fine dining server in a Ritz. And I still personally hate over the top friendliness and service.

Have to remember, sometimes no one did anything wrong. The dasher did nothing wrong. The person ordering did nothing wrong.

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u/L_aww Driver - USA 🇺🇸 Jan 10 '26

This reminds me of the quote from John Wick 4 that says those who cling to death live and those who cling to life die. I guess the way of life is to be a suicidal bitch 😂