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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:38 PM
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Poll question: So you call in a pizza to be delivered, and the guy who takes your order
Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 07:40 PM by Maddy McCall
...says, "The driver will call you in 20 minutes for directions." After all, this is a place that guarantees delivery in less than 50 minutes from the time your order is taken.

You sit and wait, and an hour and fifteen minutes later, you call the pizza place back to see what the reason is for the delay. They tell you that they only have two drivers,because one called in sick, and that as soon as a driver gets back, they'll tell him to call you. You ask, "Will the pizza even be hot?" The person assures you it will. :eyes:

So you wait. And you wait. Twenty minutes later...
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jellybelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:40 PM
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1. demand that the pizza be delivered hot
if not you get it for free.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:42 PM
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Two hours after being cooked and sitting in a hot box...
it would be pizza jerky instead of pizza. :-)
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:41 PM
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2. I tell that the callers all the time
Of course I don't actually run a call-a-pizza business, I just happen to have a telephone number previously owned by a pizza service. (if the money is right, I might mail a few frozen pizzas).

:evilgrin:
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:42 PM
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3. what kinda weird pizza place calls you back for directions?
Here they see your number on caller ID (or ask for it) and look up your address in the computer. Badda-boom, badda-bing.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:44 PM
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5. It's not a big name pizza joint...
a locally owned one. The pizza actually sucks...they bought out a Little Ceasars, so it is basically Little Ceasars with a local name...but they deliver, so we eat sucky pizza because I don't feel like driving.

Anyway, no matter if the same delivery person has delivered twenty times to you, he or she still calls for directions. :shrug:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:44 PM
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4. Give him directions to a house down the street. Then beat and rob him
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:45 PM
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6. LOL! Pay off the credit card bill, eh?
Naw...I'm too much of a pacifist. :-)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:47 PM
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7. Just try to scare him into giving the money up
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:47 PM
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8. ONLY pizza place in town?????
Why didn't they tell you when you called that there would be a two hour delay b4 you got your order???? I would cancel on that fact alone. I never have pizza delivered, I always pick it up at the local independent pizza parlor.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:51 PM
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10. That's the way I do it...
I call and place an order for pickup, they say it'll be ready in 20 minutes. In ten minutes, I'm in the car on the way to the pizza place.

It's always hot when I get it home...no 'pizza jerky' for me, thanks. (to the originator of that one -- *nice phrase* btw)
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:50 PM
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9. Do you live in Middle-of-Nowhere, MT?
I've got a half dozen pizza places in walking distance from my house. If one doesn't give me the service I've requested, then I call another.
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C.C.D. Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 08:43 PM
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15. Heh. That would be me. (nt)
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:55 PM
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11. You give them a Pizza your mind
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 08:09 PM
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12. You have a place that delivers pizza???
Wow, that'd be something. Next thing, you'll tell me they have sliced bread where you live!

Do you believe me now about how SMALL my town is? LOL

Hi Maddy, sorry you are having a bad pizza day. Want some leftover stuffed grape leaves?
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 08:14 PM
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13. So small that if you drive into town you've already left it ?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 08:31 PM
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14. SOOOOO small it takes longer to get car out of garage than to walk
out of town!
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vpigrad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 10:28 PM
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16. You wait....
because if you canceled your order everytime somewhere was slow, you'd starve to death. Service in this country has gone to hell. All you can do is sit and stew.
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