Fishing for chips! Couple lower bag down from their balcony to collect their takeaway from the delivery driver – and observe social distancing rules
- A Bristol couple made a fishing line contraption to get takeaway to their balcony
- The delivery driver carefully put the couple’s burgers into a bag at the end a line
- The couple used the line to keep social distance and still get takeaway delivered
A couple used a home-made fishing line contraption to get their takeaway delivered to their balcony.
Olivia Bull and Ashley Moran used their line to adhere to coronavirus social distancing rules and still get burgers delivered by a Deliveroo driver in Bristol.
Ashley said: ‘I think it’s important to keep yourself entertained during these very strange times and so to avoid any contact with the delivery driver I tied some string to a sturdy carrier bag, lowered it to the ground from the balcony and then used it to hoist the food up.’
The couple filmed Ashley as he lowered a reusable shopping bag, tied to the end of some string, from his balcony to the street for the driver to put the takeaway in.
The delivery driver carefully placed their order into the bag and watches it ascend to the couple who thanked him.
A Bristol couple lower a reusable shopping bag attached to end of a line to a Deliveroo driver on the street to get their takeaway to to their balcony while keeping social distance
The delivery driver carefully places the takeaway into the shopping bag and watches the couple pull it to their balcony as they thank him
‘I thought it was pretty funny, however, it was intense watching it come up especially when you’re hungry.
‘I’d have been pretty upset if the downstairs balconies grabbed it,’ said Ashley.
Olivia films Ashley reeling in their food nervously making sure not to let go of the line or let it snap.
‘Ashley was on about doing this all week so as soon as 5pm struck on Friday he crafted his masterpiece and got straight onto Deliveroo,’ said Olivia.
Once the burgers are safely with the couple they cheer and collect their takeaway from the bag.
The couple cheer when their contraption successfully delivers takeaway to their balcony without them having to break social distance
Ashley said: ‘I think it’s important to keep yourself entertained during these very strange times and so to avoid any contact with the delivery driver I tied some string to a sturdy carrier bag, lowered it to the ground from the balcony and then used it to hoist the food up.’
Ashley said: ‘With it being the end of a very busy but dull week, we thought we’d treat ourselves to a takeaway from a nearby burger restaurant and so ordered some food through the Deliveroo app.
‘Thankfully the delivery driver saw the funny side of it and was happy to go along with the ‘delivery instruction’ I left him on the app.
‘My main concern was that the string would snap, but luckily it ‘pulled through’.
‘If we had ordered an extra side, then I think it would have probably been a goner.’
‘It actually sped up the process by quite a bit and saved me having to run up and down the stairs.
‘I might consider doing it more often – even after the pandemic.’
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