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That'll be almost dinner
We're all Just Plain Tired™ here, so tonight is pizza night. I called the local joint that has the best 'za (I call it that because I'm cool) and asked for a delivery.
The guy on the phone had apparently been burning the midnight oil, or something else flammable, and smoky, and fragrant, and reminiscent of my college years, because it was quite the tricky conversation.
I first ordered a small pizza, half cheese, half salami (for the kids). Then I asked for a hot ham sub with everything (Mr. Plain) and a hot vegetarian sub with extra cheese (Me).
He then asked me if I wanted extra sausage on my veggie sub. Hmmm, that's a stumper. I probably would have ordered, say, the SAUSAGE SUB if that's what I had wanted. But maybe there's something magical about a veggie sub with sausage? Well, the world will never know, because after a few exchanges I straightened it out.
I asked for a couple of salads and was done. Then he read the order back to me. Two sandwiches and "would you like drinks with that?" I mentioned that I also ordered a pizza and he again said "would you like drinks with that?" Um.
Then I asked for the total for the order and he covered the mouthpiece. Then he started talking into the phone again but he was just repeating random prices. OK, I can sit and wait, no problem.
Then he says
The total is almost thirty dollars.
Um, OK, then I'll almost pay it? So I say "OK, almost thirty dollars, but how much?" And he says
I don't know, we're still figuring it out.
"We"
At least 2 guys were totalling our order. Awesome! I like guaranteed full-employment! Maybe one guy was pushing the buttons on the calculator, the other guy was working the phone. But who was doing the drink orders? Who was dealing with the walkup customers?
Oh the humanity!
I'm extremely curious to know what food we'll be eating tonight. And I just realized that he didn't mention the salads…
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Of course it is almost thirty dollars….what else would you pay for an almost vegetarian sub (you know, the kind with sausage) and some almost made it into your order salads!!
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It's a toss up around here between the pizza places where no one knows what they're doing, but they speak english, and the chinese food places where everyone is extremely capable, but no one speaks any english.
When I was a teenager,I had to know what I was doing in order to keep my job. Thankfully,I wasn't a moron!
I think the standards now are that the employee show up once in a while.If they do,they have a job.
That is why you have such a "qualified" person trying to add meat into your veggie meal. Maybe he didn't know sausage wasn't a vegetable. It could happen and obviously it did!!
Please let me know what you actually got delivered. Did the salads have sausage on them too????
This reminds me of the time many moons ago when I ordered 2 subs from D'Angelos to be delivered. I specifically said if there was mayo on my husband's BLT,then I would send it back because he can't eat mayo. I was reassured that there would be no mayo.
When the delivery came,I made the guy wait while I opened the sub and hey!……it was covered in MAYO! I wrapped it back up and told him to bring me another one without mayo. I was polite but firm. He told me to keep the mayo sub and he came back in 5 minutes with the right one. I don't think anyone spit it in or anything. Well…it was Rich's sub so….not my problem!
You must let us know what you ended up eating…
So did you get the salads?
I like your new background and I like that your page no longer freezes up my computer or takes a millenia to load. :D
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