Dasher Diary: Another in The Make This Make Sense Category in Amarillo, Texas

It's been a while since I added to this category in Amarillo. There are just some deliveries that seem to make no sense at all. The distance that the delivery service wants us to make when there are closer and better options.

I was out delivering the other day when this prize came up. I was sitting in front of the Five Guys on Georgia Street. That is usually where I sit and wait for my first order of the day. I got an order that I accepted and was on my way to make some money.

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I was supposed to pick it up from KFC and deliver it off of Soncy. Ok, not a big deal. So I headed on my way to KFC. The directions did not take me to the KFC next to our radio stations near 34th and Bell. I mean if my drop off was near 34th and Soncy that is what makes sense.

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You have to remember this is DoorDash and they don't always make a lot of sense in their deliveries. Oh no, not at all. They had me heading to the KFC on Ross Street. So totally out of my way.

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I had to drive about seven minutes from where I was to pick up the food. Not a big deal except that then I had to double back to make it to the delivery. So what could have been a quick twenty-minute delivery from Georgia Street down 34th to the KFC there and down to Soncy, was not that.

It was me on Georgia Street then jumping on I40 to Ross Street then back on I40 to Soncy and then fighting that traffic. What should have taken me twenty minutes was stretched out to at least forty minutes.

The good news is I was signed up to be paid by time so at least I was making money. Unfortunately, I was also wasting gas.