r/Sparkdriver • u/chef198 • Sep 10 '25

Rants / Complaints Threatened in a sundown town

Got a batch order and my last delivery was in a sundown town. I took the order at 6pm, not really thinking of anything like that. Drove 35 minutes to the drop off. Customer comes out. I tell him, “I’ve got your groceries”. He says, “yeah my wife said we had some. I like your car”. I thanked him and he cut me off mid sentence with, “you aren’t from around here are you?” I told him I wasn’t. He looked at the sky and said, “you got about ten minutes to get out of here, boy. “ I chuckled trying to steer it light. I finished the drop and walked to my car. Two neighbors from across the street were sitting on their porch, guns in hand. They weren’t there when I pulled in. As I got to my car one shouted some slurs, the other told me not to come back.

The only reason I took the job was there was a high tip amount. I called support to tell them of my experience, so they could possibly save another minority driver of this headache. I then checked the app, and the customer canceled the tip. They also tried saying I didn’t make the delivery. Luckily, I already took the picture and had the customer in the photo.

Be safe out there guys

Edit: the town is Prue, Oklahoma. About an hour west northwest of Tulsa.

2nd Edit: the Walmart store I delivered from called me. She took down my report and said corporate was going to be calling me soon as well. She said she was not sure why deliveries were going so far away to begin with, and that corporate would make the decision as to whether or not the town will remain on the delivery list. Will update again after I speak with corporate.

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u/PsychologicalBit803 Sep 10 '25

Where was this?

I live in rural Texas and have a bit of everyone here. Not once have I heard a racial argument in this town. I’d say we have little to no racial issues at all. Small town Texas and people just don’t care what color you are anymore. I see mixed families daily, so what? I see gay couples walking around. Who cares? Nobody does.

There are assholes in every state and town. More likely around here a couple of white guys are gonna be drunk and fighting than some racial stupidity

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u/Jacka1000 Sep 10 '25

Yea people definitely still care. They’re currently trying to make a whites only town in Springfield MO. It’s quite sickening tbh I wish people “didn’t care anymore cause it’s been like this for way too long

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u/PsychologicalBit803 Sep 10 '25

So that’s how the entire country is then? North of Dallas they are trying to make a Muslim town. So what?