‘Delivering a toy to a man in a hotel room’: DoorDasher picks up order from Michaels. Then she posts a video in case she goes missing
Working as a DoorDash driver comes with risks most people don’t think about while tracking an order on their phone.
Drivers spend their days pulling up to unfamiliar houses, apartment complexes, and businesses, often with little context about who they’re delivering to or what waits on the other side of the door.
That risk has felt more tangible lately. Several recent incidents involving delivery drivers have made headlines, including cases where drivers were seriously injured or killed while working.
Now, a female DoorDash driver has sparked discussion after sharing what sounded like a suspicious order, joking that she might not return to the app after making the delivery. The story, however, takes an unexpected turn.
What happened to this DoorDash driver?
TikTok creator @elly.momofmany posted a short video that has since pulled in more than 366,800 views. In it, she explains she’s out DoorDashing when she gets an unusual pickup.
“If I die, here’s my story,” she writes in the video’s text overlay before explaining she just picked up “a little bouncy Groot from Michael’s.” Holding the toy up to the camera, she adds that she thinks she’s delivering it to “a man in a hotel room.”
The part that really unsettles her is the delivery process. She explains she’ll have to hand the order directly to him and get a PIN to complete it. “So if I don’t come back,” she says, “you know what happened to me.”
The video ends there, and for many viewers, that was enough to trigger real concern.
Does she come back?
Hours later, the creator returns with an update.
“I’m alive,” she says at the start of the follow-up. She explains she wasn’t missing, just busy trying to hit a DoorDash bonus goal for the day. Then she walks viewers through what actually happened.
She explains that DoorDash doesn’t always tell drivers where they’re headed until after they accept an order. In this case, the delivery notes simply said “room 217.” Based on past experience, she assumed that meant a hotel.
Once she arrived, the situation changed quickly. Instead of a hotel, the address turned out to be a nursing and rehabilitation facility. “I instantly felt bad,” she says, adding that she immediately felt safer once she realized where she was.
Inside, she finds the man who placed the order and hands over the item—a Beanie Baby-style bouncy Groot toy. That’s when the confusion sets in.
According to her, the man thought he had ordered a beanie hat, not a toy. Because she happened to be wearing a beanie herself, he pointed it out, clearly expecting something similar. “I thought I bought one of those things that’s on your head,” he tells her.
She explains that she can only deliver what was ordered. “You got a toy,” she says, handing it over. She laughs while describing the moment, calling it funny and sweet, even if it wasn’t what he wanted.
She closes the update by reassuring viewers she’s OK and thanking them for checking on her. “Y’all would make really good friends,” she says. “It was very nice.”
The story doesn’t end there. In another video, the creator shares that she went back and delivered an actual beanie hat to the man. She shows part of the interaction and says he was extremely thankful, turning what started as a tense moment into something genuinely kind.
@elly.momofmany Delivering a toy to a man in a hotel room. Just had to post my evidence #doordash ♬ original sound – •Mom of Many• Jesus❣️
Commenters Are Grateful
Under the first video, commenters were clearly worried. “Where are you… COME BACKKK!” one person wrote. Others tried to calm the situation, suggesting it was “probably just a dad getting for their kid.”
Once the follow-ups were posted, the tone changed. “He needs his beanie,” one commenter joked after seeing the second video.
Another response stood out after the final update. “My dad’s in a nursing home and if someone did this for him I would be so dang grateful,” one person wrote. “This is so sweet and I’m so happy for this.”
The Mary Sue has reached out to DoorDash and the creator via email for comment.
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