22-year-old rider Shafiq said he was making a delivery, when he was approached by a woman to ask if he could help her with her makeup.
"As if I had any skills with makeup...I got saved by a new order and dashed out the door," he said.
Turns out, plenty of other Deliveroo riders have had their fair share of weird encounters. Here are some of the best told to Mashable.
Double delivery
"On my way to deliver an order, I came across a kid that appeared to be lost. I picked him up and asked him to show me where his house is," said Gabriel.
"The house ended up being where I was making the food delivery to! The kid's mom was very happy with both deliveries."
Friendly customers
"I picked up an order of eight pizzas and was told to deliver to a condominium [complex], straight to their karaoke room," said Edica.
"When I reached the destination, I was greeted by a very jubilant guy. He and his friends even invited me in to sing a few songs and have some drinks!"
Even friendlier customers
"Once a customer answered the door completely naked!" Prakash said.
No monkeying around
"I was making a delivery and an entire pack of monkeys started following me!" said Sharif.
Free booze
"A customer gave me a great (yet surprising) tip once — a bottle of wine wrapped with two $5 notes!" revealed Ming.
Now that, we can get on board with.
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Group fitness instructor
Pay: Up to $41 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time
Description: Group Fitness Instructors are responsible for leading group fitness classes that support gyms and fitness club members with personal fitness goals. Instructors monitor members' needs and progress through safe exercises/routines in a variety of different classes, while creating an exciting and fun workout experience. Classes to teach include Zumba, yoga, Pilates, cycling, and age-specific classes like those for senior citizens. Several years of experience and teaching certifications are typically required.
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Project archivist
Pay: Up to $26 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time
Description: Museums and curatorial departments at various organizations sometimes seek archivists for project-based work to help them with a backlog of archival materials. A master's degree in records and archives management and/or previous experience is typically required.
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Marketing specialist
Pay: Up to $26 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, temporary, freelance
Description: Marketing specialists are sometimes hired on a part-time, temporary, or project-specific basis. Duties include creating and supporting communications and marketing plans, and creating marketing materials and outreach programs. A background and education in communications or a similar field, and a bachelor's degree, are typically required.
Curriculum writer
Pay: Up to $50 an hour
Type of flexibility: Temporary, part time
Description: Education professionals with experience in curriculum writing will find a variety of part-time and/or temporary positions to assist educational institutions and organizations with curriculum development, writing, and adaption. These jobs seek people who have excellent teamwork skills and who work well under deadlines.
City-guide writer
Pay: Up to $100 a project
Type of flexibility: Freelance, telecommute
Description: Travel and tourism businesses, as well as real-estate companies, often hire writers to write city and/or neighborhood guides with information about population size, shopping, recreation, culture, entertainment, things to do, climate, transit, and more.
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Project assistant
Pay: Up to $25 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, telecommute, temporary
Description: Depending on a company or organization's needs, project assistants are sometimes hired on a temporary basis to assist in specific projects. This might include updating or maintaining resources, troubleshooting specific issues, analyzing data, and assisting regular staff with ongoing needs. These part-time roles are often filled by people with experience in the specific industry or field, and a bachelor's degree in a related subject area is sometimes required.
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Business consultant
Pay: Up to $48 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, telecommute, freelance
Description: Consultants may work with one local business or a variety of nationwide or international companies to handle questions, review processes, and improve performance. Extensive previous management experience is typically required.
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Project manager
Pay: Up to $43 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, freelance
Description: Project managers with previous experience are sometimes hired by clients who need a specific project handled from start to finish. They may oversee the project from idea creation through implementation, coordinate with all participants, track budgets, and troubleshoot issues.
Sign-language interpreter
Pay: Up to $36.50 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time
Description: For those with sign-language skills and a license (which are usually state-sponsored), part-time and freelance contracts are often available. Depending on the employer, you'll help different populations with hearing impairments communicate with interpretation.
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Web designer
Pay: Up to $32 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, telecommute, temporary, freelance
Description: Web designers are responsible for the graphic-design elements of websites. In these roles, designers create, update, and manage web-design elements, and they need to have design experience as well as excellent client-relations skills.
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Software developer
Pay: Up to $30 an hour
Type of flexibility: Flexible schedule, part time, telecommute
Description: Software-development jobs are one of the most in-demand positions available today, and many offer part-time and project-based work. Depending on the gig, you might be updating existing websites, creating new templates, helping to develop new websites and apps, or other related tasks.
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Online communications associate
Pay: Up to $25 an hour
Type of flexibility: Telecommute, part time
Description: Online-community management positions are a growing area for part-time work. Responsibilities typically include updating web content, managing social media, providing system administration, writing content, and creating reports.
Video reviewer
Pay: Up to $25 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, telecommute
Description: For certified teachers in a variety of subject areas, video-reviewer jobs are a part-time way to use your skills and experience for extra income. Video reviewers observe and assess the classroom and instructional performance of teachers from around the country, who send videos of themselves for review.
Accountant
Pay: Up to $25 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, freelance
Description: Though this isn't typically thought of as a "side job," accountants with several years of experience can find part-time work helping different businesses with accounting functions, reporting, and taxes. Some accounting side gigs help businesses and individuals complete their taxes annually or throughout the year, while others are responsible more for daily, weekly, and monthly accounting tasks.
Merchandise coordinator
Pay: Up to $21 an hour
Type of flexibility: Temporary, freelance, short term
Description: A small amount of merchandising experience is needed for these types of jobs, where you'll support a merchandising team by maintaining and updating information such as reports, samples, and updates from other teams.
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Bilingual legal assistant
Pay: Up to $21 an hour
Type of flexibility: Freelance, short term
Description: For someone with multilingual skills and legal experience, bilingual-legal-assistant jobs are often available as projects or temporary jobs in which you'll help an organization with a specific case or issue, reviewing legal documents using your language skills.
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Lead-generation specialist
Pay: Up to $20 an hour
Type of flexibility: Freelance, part time, telecommute
Description: Lead-generation specialists, also known as appointment setters, typically prospect, qualify, and generate appointments for a variety of companies and business-development teams. Someone with high self-motivation, determination, and communication skills should do well in this type of job.
Freelance product photographer
Pay: Up to $20 an hour
Type of flexibility: Temporary, part time, freelance
Description: Make no mistake — photography side jobs require someone who is highly skilled in photography and related software for editing and retouching photos. Photography experience is almost always required, and graphic design and Photoshop experience is a plus.
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Bookkeeper
Pay: Up to $19 an hour
Type of flexibility: Temporary, flexible schedule, part-time potential
Description: Plenty of part-time bookkeeping jobs exist for both small and large companies. The responsibilities typically usually include using QuickBooks to do reconciliation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc. — so at least some experience (and relevant skills) are required.
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Copy editor/writer
Pay: Up to $17 an hour
Type of flexibility: Temporary, part time, telecommute
Description: Copy editors and writers can be responsible for the writing, execution, and proofreading of materials across digital and print platforms. Depending on the employer, they may write and edit for marketing materials, editorial content, social media, or other types of material.
Temporary transcript processor
Pay: Up to $15 an hour
Type of flexibility: Part time, temporary
Description: Data-entry jobs like transcript processing are a great side job for people who love to work independently, have solid attention to detail, and enjoy the unique challenges of data entry. Data-entry specialists are needed to input data from a variety of sources into the correct corresponding fields quickly and accurately, and working well under pressure is a must.
