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- Bruna Conce was in the mood for sushi but didn’t want to leave her apartment, so she turned to Uber Eats
- Conce was shocked when a large bouquet of roses was delivered to her door instead of her dinner
- She posted a video about the flowers on TikTok, but never found the intended recipient or mystery sender
When a woman placed a late-night sushi order through Uber Eats, she was expecting spicy tuna rolls — not a romantic surprise.
Instead of dinner, she opened her door to find a large bouquet of red roses sitting on her doorstep.
What she initially believed was a thoughtful gesture turned out to be a delivery blunder, so Bruna Conce took to TikTok to look for the flowers’ rightful owner.
“Honestly, I didn’t think much of it at first. I was definitely surprised, but not suspicious,” Conce tells PEOPLE exclusively. “My boyfriend had sent me flowers earlier that week, so I just assumed he was being extra romantic.”
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, she thought the delivery might be part of an ongoing romantic streak. “My immediate thought was, ‘Wait… is this his way of saying I’m not getting flowers on Valentine’s Day?’ Because that would’ve made it three bouquets in one week,” Conce recalls.
However, there was no name or card attached to the flowers. “At first, I brushed it off, my boyfriend always sends me flowers without a note, so it felt normal,” she says.
But when she called her boyfriend to thank him, she quickly realized something was off. “He looked even more confused than I was,” she says. “That’s when it clicked: this wasn’t from him.”
Though the mix-up made for a funny story, the situation left her more disappointed than delighted. “Okay, so to be honest… I was hungry,” she admits. “The flowers were beautiful and all, but I had been counting down the minutes for that sushi.”
Conce placed her order 30 minutes before the restaurant closed, so when the app marked it as “delivered” with no sushi in sight, it all started to make sense.
The delivery mishap didn’t just ruin her dinner plans – it sparked a wave of guilt for the intended recipient.
“What if she was really looking forward to them? What if someone had carefully planned a sweet surprise? Meanwhile, I’m just sitting here with someone’s romantic gesture… and a growling stomach,” Conce says. “And what if she hates sushi? It was a lose-lose.”
Determined to fix the mistake, she reached out to the Uber driver who delivered the order. “I still had the Uber driver’s number from our earlier messages, I’d sent him directions to my building, so I called him,” she explains. “I told him I was waiting for sushi, not a bouquet, and when he realized the mix-up, he was just like, ‘Oh! Just keep them.’ I was like, ‘No, sir, I can’t just keep them! Someone out there is waiting for these flowers!’ ”
Unfortunately, Conce’s attempts to trace the owner hit a wall. “I begged him to tell me where he accidentally delivered the sushi, so I could do a little switcheroo, but he said he couldn’t give me that info,” she reveals.
“I even submitted an official inquiry to Uber explaining the whole situation, hoping they’d at least notify the person who was left flowerless,” Conce adds. “I also posted a video asking if anyone nearby randomly received sushi they didn’t order… but sadly, I never found her. It still haunts me.”
By the time she had exhausted all resources, it was already around 10 p.m., and Conce felt completely defeated. “I was hungry and emotionally invested in a flower mystery I couldn’t solve,” she tells PEOPLE. “I just took it as a sign from the universe that I should stick to my diet and go to bed early instead.”
Though she’s had minor mishaps with deliveries before, this one stands out. “I’ve definitely done the classic ‘oops, I sent it to my old address’ thing before, which is always painful,” Conce admits. “But I’ve never had a full-blown identity swap like this where I ended up with someone’s order instead of mine. It was so random, but also just really, really funny.”
If Conce could send a message to the woman who never got her bouquet, it would be this: “The flowers were stunning. Whoever sent them clearly cares about you and wanted to make your day special. So if you were mad at them for any reason… maybe give them a second chance! They were sabotaged! And also, I hope you enjoyed my sushi.”
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