Saturday, December 26, 2020

Monetizing Loneliness by the Numbers

Stats from December 25, 2020:


Time leaving apartment: 8:45 AM

Time on #1 tee at Foxdale Park 9 AM

Air temperature: 11°F

Wind Chill: -5°F

Distance from pin on #8 after deliberately skipping drive off frozen pond: 30 feet.

Time first logged into Door Dash: 9:38 AM

Number of delivery sessions: 5

Total orders assigned: 30

Total orders accepted: 29

Tip on order declined: 1¢

Total orders cancelled before I arrived to merchant: 1

Total orders arriving at closed location: 0

Total orders from Popeye's near my house where those there realized I was the only one taking the orders: 6

Time that Popeye's closed: 4 PM

Total McDonald's orders: 6

Different McDonald's locations: 4

Total Sarpinos Pizza orders: 3

Total orders from a place that generally serves food based from Asian cultures: 3

Total orders from place at a mall: 3

Times making a purchase for myself while making a pickup: 3

Total orders from a virtual restaurant (which only exists on line and is picked up at a restaurant with a different name): 1

Most expensive order from a sushi place: $190

Least expensive order from CVS: $6

Number of places that looked like they were overwhelmed by number of customers or being short staffed: 1

Times picking up two separate orders from same location: 2

Total locations that customers were eating inside in spite of the governor's order: 2

Number holes played at Clark Park after a delivery was less than five minutes from there: 12

Pickup zones logged into during day: 1

Approximate boundaries of that zone: IL 390, I-294, I-88, I-355

Times on a toll road including pickup from the McDonald's at the I-294 Oasis: 2

Total deliveries: 28

Furthest northern delivery: Mount Prospect (3/4 mile north of Golf Rd)

Furthest southern delivery: Darien (75th st)

Furthest western delivery: Carol Stream (Gary Av)

Furthest eastern delivery: Bellwood (Mannheim Rd)

Deliveries to someone else working on Dec 25: 3

Times delivering to a hotel: 4

Times delivering an order from two different places to the same customer at a hotel: 1

Food deliveries: 27

Food deliveries where customer did not tip: 7

Highest tip: $15

Number of customers who tipped $5 cash as well as $5 on the app: 1

Flags seen in support of the person who came second in the 2020 presidential election: 2

People seen who would go on a "date" (which would have been real tempting as I had enough cash on me to afford to do so but had a delivery to make and she was gone by the time I was heading back): 1

Disc golf courses passed: 3

Hospitals passed: 2

Different gas stations making a purchase after using bathroom: 4

Time last delivery session ended: 12:13 AM 

Time home: 12:18 AM 

Total time logged in: 12 hours, 48 minutes

Total miles driven: 250

Total earnings through app: $231.75

Total cash tip: $5

People seen whose name I knew outside of delivering food: 0

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