2-year-old orders 31 cheeseburgers
Mom leaves phone unlocked, 2-year-old orders 31 cheeseburgers
After her 2-year-old son accidentally ordered 31 McDonald’s cheeseburgers from DoorDash, a Texas mother learned a valuable lesson about the dangers of leaving your phone unlocked.
Burkhalter Barrett, Golden’s son, used her unlocked phone to order $61.58 in McDonald’s delivery. The total was $91.70 after the tip and app fees. She wrote about it on Facebook on Monday.
“He was really just flicking it around and making like roller coaster moves with his arms and fingers,” she laughed. “I thought he was just looking at his reflection and carrying the phone around and about 30 minutes later, I got a text from the DoorDash company that was like, hey, it’s gonna take a little bit longer than usual to take your order.”
She didn’t understand the text, but she thought it was because she had forgotten to send lunch for her other two kids to their school, where she also works. She even told the school that two Happy Meals were coming.
“I even called my admin and was like, ‘Hey, I’m not here today, but apparently I ordered DoorDash so you could keep a lookout for him,” she chuckled. Just as someone from the school let her know that the kids’ order didn’t arrive, a delivery driver knocked on Golden’s door at home.
“So I go and open the door and there’s this girl standing there and she’s like, ‘Your 31 cheeseburgers?'” Golden laughed. “I just stared at her awkwardly for like 15 seconds but then I just took them, like, ‘Oh, thank you!’
“And she was like, ‘Thank you for the tip!’ Oh, boy. So I went in and I checked my phone. And sure enough, the order was placed at the exact time that he was playing with the phone.”
She said that was when she found out that ordering from DoorDash and, later, Amazon does not require face recognition or other extra security checks. But more quickly, she had to figure out what to do with all the food.
“He actually doesn’t even like cheeseburgers. He ate half of one,” she said. “We had about 30 and a half cheeseburgers on our hands.”
She said she posted on a local Facebook group to see if anyone wanted a free burger. In the end, she gave them to a big family, the neighbors, and a woman who was about to have a baby.
“One was a pregnant woman and she wanted six, no judgment, you know? I was pregnant three times,” Golden laughed.
