If you’re in college, chances are you’ve called up your local pizza place at 1:45 a.m. and ordered a large variety of almost everything on the menu. When the delivery driver showed up with your food, you scuttled away without flashing so much as an apologetic look for a tip.

If this sounds familiar, you are in the majority and you may live in a residence hall.

Rich Comer, a junior English major and delivery driver for PJ’s Red Hots, 817 W. Lincoln Highway, said residents of the residence halls aren’t generous when it comes to tips.

“Our regular customers and fraternity guys usually tip very well,” Comer said. “But people in the dorms are terrible tippers. They either don’t tip at all or give a 65-cent tip. They assume the delivery charge is enough of a tip.”

Comer said if there is a delivery charge, some of the money usually goes toward gas for the drivers.

Nick Tomkins, a driver for World Famous Pizza, 142 E. Lincoln Highway, agreed that the residence halls usually house the worst tippers.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been tipped at Grant North once,” Tomkins said.

Delivery drivers do, however, get to know DeKalb very well. Justin McAllister, an art major at Kishwaukee College and driver for Tom & Jerry’s, 215 W. Lincoln Highway, said he knows all the streets in the city.

“If you gave me the name of a street, I could tell you exactly where it is and how to get there,” McAllister said. “I barely ever have to look at a map.”

Delivery drivers also may get some free entertainment from their customers.

McAllister said one of the funniest things he’s seen happened one night when he made a delivery to an older lady.

“When I [brought] her the food, she answered the door in her nightgown,” said McAllister. “She told me she had to set the food down and get her money. When she did, she bent over and flashed me for like two minutes. It was hilarious. I was thinking, ‘This is probably someone’s mom.’”

Comer said he also has had customers answer the door in their underwear.

“I think they just forget about their food and we surprise them,” said Comer. “They usually get really embarrassed and try to hide behind the door.”

Tomkins accidentally walked in on a bachelor party once.

“It was cool,” Tomkins said. “They had a stripper and everything.”

Being a delivery driver is not always fun and games, though.

Tomkins said trying to find houses that don’t have their lights on is always tough. Comer hates it when his customers pay their bills in change.

“I’ve had people pay a $12 bill in nickels and dimes,” Comer said. “You just look at all that change and think ‘Great. What do I do with this?’”