The only line to be found on the usually bustling U Street Corridor Thursday afternoon was in front of &pizza, which is offering free pies to hospital workers. And that line was long.

“I’ve been out here since 10:30,” DoorDash driver Turkeita Mathis said with a sigh. She said she was on her eighth trip between &pizza and MedStar Washington Hospital Center and estimated that she waited in line for at least 30 minutes each time.

Mathis said there were so many drivers double-parked in front of the store on Thursday morning that police had to come disperse them. But she said it has been fun getting to know her fellow DoorDash drivers and that everyone has been in good spirits, except one woman walking her dog who cursed at them for blocking the sidewalk.

“I ain’t got nothing else to do,” said Mathis, a food service worker at an Au Bon Pain that has closed. “I’ll be out here all day and all night if I need to.”

An employee handed out bottled waters at one point to the drivers, some of whom wore gloves and masks. One brought along his 4-year old son, who was alternating between napping on his shoulder and playing a video game.

At the back of the line, DoorDash driver James Johnson worried about making it to the hospital before the nurse who had ordered a pizza ended her shift. She had ordered at 11 a.m., and it was nearly 3:30 p.m.

“I don’t know why they don’t have a way of bunching the orders up,” he said. “But there’s a first time for everything.”