6-Year-Old Tech-Savvy Boy Orders $1000 Worth of Food From Dad’s GrubHub Account Stupefying His Parents

We live in an era when everything is available at our doorsteps with a simple finger tap, including meals from our favorite restaurants. Sitting in the comfort of our homes, we can order almost anything we want to feast on. But the downside of these easy delivery services is that even a child can order anything they want with a little knowledge about tech and a whole lot of hungry determination. This is exactly what happened in a Michigan family when their 6-year-old boy’s tech-savvy nature ended up emptying his father's wallet.

Young Mason was at home with his father, Keith Stonehouse, while his mother was out with her friends. As part of his usual bedtime routine, Stonehouse handed his phone over to Mason so he can play some games. But the boy had played enough of those childish games and he decided to splurge a hefty amount from his father’s earnings instead.

Mason ended up opening the GrubHub app on his father’s phone and ordered over $1000 worth of food from several restaurants near his residence and the amount of food was huge enough to feed a small village population. Mason’s unsuspecting father had fallen asleep by then as all the food delivery drivers started arriving at their doorsteps. A confused Keith Stonehouse told AZ Family about the incident. “Time after time again, and it’s piles and bags of food. ‘What is going on?’ They’re dropping them off at the door, so, I’m not communicating with the drivers,” he told the outlet.

Finally, Keith asked one of the GrubHub drivers why he was receiving so much food. The delivery driver said, "'I don’t know you. You ordered from the shawarma place,’” Keith added. That’s when it struck the baffled father that he had let his son play games on his phone before bedtime. Upon checking his GrubHub app, Keith saw that someone had ordered from multiple restaurants. He knew that the culprit was none other than his son Mason.

“I think I had left the app open, and he saw that when he was playing with my phone and just started going to town. He ordered multiple orders: chili cheese fries, the chicken pita wraps, ice cream, pizza,” Stonehouse said, per the outlet. In one of the massive orders that Mason gave to Happy’s Pizza, it charged them $439 which was massive enough to trigger Stonehouse's credit card fraud alert, per Scary Mommy. The charge was declined and the bank notified Keith. But he still wasn’t lucky with the $183 order of shrimp from the same food outlet.

When the kid’s parents tried to explain to him that ordering a massive amount of food costs a lot of money, Mason had a bigger concern. He put his hand up to stop his father from educating him about money management and questioned, “Dad, did the pepperoni pizzas come yet?’" 

“I had to walk out of the room. I didn't know if I should get mad or laugh. I didn't know what to do,” Keith said. Mason’s mom, Kristyn Stonehouse took a different approach in order to deal with her son’s antics and teach him what it looks like when someone’s hard-earned money is taken away without their consent. “I think it sunk in when we were actually taking his money to try to pay back some of it, just as a lesson. I know what this money in your piggy bank means to you. So, this is only a fraction of what you spent,” Kristyn said.