Doordash driver notices her delivery spot is allegedly covered by a curtain, then a voice speaks to her from behind it: ’I had never felt so unsafe”

A DoorDash driver says she ran to her car and quit delivering after someone behind a hanging curtain spoke to her seconds after she dropped off an order. In a TikTok video, she describes the winter night as the one when she felt “so unsafe.”

On-screen text in the video reads “Missing Doordashers??” and “The CREEPIEST Doordash EVER.” She says she had made only five or six deliveries at that point, using the money for a credit card minimum, and was still getting used to delivering at all. An order then sent her to a rural apartment complex with about 12 units. She describes the evening as dark, freezing and snowy, at around 8 or 9 p.m.

On the second-floor balcony, she says she found apartments 213 and 214, then a large blanket-like curtain hanging beside a door. It looked like it could be for construction, so she did not go behind it. She went back to her car and messaged the customer that she could not find his apartment.

She says the customer replied right away

By her account, he answered immediately, telling her “I’m behind the curtain on the second floor” and to “open the curtain and put it in front of the door.” She says that felt weird, since the building sat against the woods and no outside lights were on. She says she left the bag at the curtain without going behind it and took the delivery photo. About six steps away, she says she heard “that’s not my front door” from behind the curtain, roughly four seconds after setting the order down.

She says it was silent outside, with no cars, people or TVs she could hear. In her view, no one could have come out of a door that quickly, so he must have been standing right there behind the curtain. She ran to her car, saying “I do not have the build of somebody who runs.” She says she had a pocket knife, but “I had never felt so unsafe doing Doordash,” so she closed the transaction, drove home and never delivered again.

She allows that “maybe he was just weird,” but says situations like this are not always innocent and someone could be badly hurt. She says similar things have happened on DoorDash before and urges drivers to “be very, very careful.” All details are based on her TikTok video and its on-screen text.

According to a Georgetown University report on food delivery workers in Washington, D.C., 51% of the 41 drivers interviewed stated they felt unsafe on the job. Another 41% reported assaults or harassment, and 23% reported vehicle collisions. The report adds that many drivers did not report incidents to their companies. They believed the company would not help or that they would be penalized for disrupted or incomplete orders.

Other drivers have shared similar scares. One DoorDash driver feared a hotel-room delivery scare until a follow-up video showed the address was a care facility. A woman also says a man followed her around Walmart while she shopped. DoorDash says Dashers can use SafeDash in the app, which includes a “Swipe for 911” button that calls 911 and shares their location with emergency responders.

DoorDash states that Dashers can also connect with a safety agent and share their location with trusted contacts.

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