(as seen at the evil empire, but I just had to liberate it)

So, uh… what’s your pizza-disaster story, y’all? I’ll go first.

Me, I used to deliver for Domino’s, and it was tonnes more fun than I’d imagined. First order of business was getting myself this freakin’ awesome powered-spotlight that plugged in to the cigarette lighter in my car, nominally so as to throw a spotlight on street addresses, at need. But hoh-my-god, that sucker was fun to play around with in general.

Also, like Ed Grimley, “I must say” that the tips were unusually good, to supplement the standard shit-wages of a delivery-boy. This was in 1990 btw, so wow… 36yrs ago, now. Tempus fugit, nonne?

Anyway, my most awkward encounter ever was the time I made a delivery, placed the pizza directly in to the man’s hands, and… for whatever reason(s) he dropped it. Right in front of me. Right between us. Probably one of the earliest scammers I ever dealt with, but it was hella embarrassing and awkward, dammit. I sure as heck didn’t know what to do or say…

How about you. Got anything…?

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    Like, if that pizza is just for him, I kinda dig it. But if that is cut up for the family (and assumably siblings) to share, he deserves to deal with the absolute pants-shitting screaming match over who gets which piece that is inevitable.

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      Probably one of those ‘I’m paying for the food and roof over your heads’ kind of thing. Sadly, situations like that can get pretty warped and toxic, indeed.

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    I could see it if he were going for even pepperoni distribution, but here I’m seeing 3 slices with 5 pepperonis, 3 slices with 3 pepperonis, and 2 slices with 4 pepperonis.

    32 pepperonis, he could have split it into 8 slices with 4 pepperonis each.

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    There was a guy at a nursing home who lived on the 27th floor. Had to drive through a checkpoint with a guard, check in at the front desk, and ride the elevator to deliver the same plain cheese pizza every time. The guy was probably 95 so he always gave two quarters as as a tip, thinking this was a lot for a 20-something delivery driver. Probably didn’t know that the financial crisis had made it impossible to find a real job even with a university degree, and that the extra 15 minutes dealing with his building meant I was losing money, and I couldn’t use the fifty cents to buy a chicken dinner like he could when he was my age.

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      Yikes.
      There’s a lot to comment on there, but in the US at least, there truly was a period of ‘greatness’ from around the mid-1930’s to its last gasp in the mid-1970’s, much of it salvaged by FDR-style politics.

      IME Boomers sadly whiff on all that all the time.

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      Well, I for one believe that might fully live up to the Dark Lord’s diabolical, maggot-ridden, ejaculation-expectoration. Well CHOSEN, sir. ❤️

      :D

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    Regarding this pizza, I get it. I really do. But I feel like I would learn how to sharpen a pizza cutter before I would decide to do this.

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    Im going to start doing this, just to piss other people off. Thank you for the idea father of random internet person.

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    Next time imply you’re bringing friends and he’ll need to cut it into 32 pieces.

    I wanna see him make 32 mini-pizzas with one (1) pepperoni on each.

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      I think with the quotes in the title and the “(as seen at the evil empire, but I just had to liberate it)” they are trying to imply that they took it from Reddit.

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    Not a pizza story, but I used to deliver for jimmy johns. I took an order one time to an address that was in an area with a bunch of individual doctors offices, and this address looked like it had a small lobby just like any of those doctors offices. I walked right into this family’s living room while they were having some kind of get together, they asked what the hell I was doing, and i turned bright red and held up the box of sandwiches. It ended up alright; I explained myself, then they asked me to take a picture with them and joked about delivery so good they didnt even have to get off the couch. In retrospect, I realized I basically just broke and entered in a stand your ground state and got super lucky the family was chill about it