Wednesday evening, Hick dropped me off to pick up T-Hoe, and declared that he would go on into town after chatting with Mick the Mechanic, to get Domino's pizza for supper. We haven't had Domino's since the last time The Pony was home. Which was last December. We don't really like it, except for the thin crust variety.
I took T-Hoe (now without a warning bell, hopefully with brakes) to Orb K for a 44 oz Diet Coke and scratchers. Cashed in a $15 winner, and won $50, in case you're interested. Anyhoo... the Diet Coke from the newly-installed soda fountain was fine. Not as fine as the Diet Coke at The Gas Station Chicken Store, but fine enough. Besides, it saved me another stop. I wanted to get home, you know, because Hick was bringing pizza.
I stopped for the mail, fed the dogs some bread dipped in the juices of the previous day's roasted chicken, put my driver's license back in my regular purse (we'd been to the casino), added cherry limeade and squeezed a real lime into my magical elixir, filled my two bubba cups with ice, changed clothes, and sat down to sip some water (gambling can be dehydrating) while waiting for Hick.
Seventy minutes after leaving me at Mick's, Hick sent me a text that he was starting home with the pizza. Well. Good to know. I was beginning to think he'd gone to Italy for it. Town is only 10 minutes from home! Every time I'd call to order pizza on the way home from school with The Pony, the Domino's dude would tell me, "It should be ready in 10-15 minutes." And it was.
When Hick got home 10 minutes later, he said,
"I talked to Mick for a minute, then went to get the pizza. The guy told me it would take 15 minutes. So I sat down at a table to wait. After 15 minutes, I went to the counter to ask about it. And the guy said, 'Oh, I forgot to call your name.' He went and got it off the shelf. It's still hot. It only sat there about five minutes. Good thing I got up to ask."
Yes, Hick needs the spirit of Patrick Swayze (the Dirty Dancing spirit, not the Ghost spirit) to warn those Domino's dudes: "Nobody puts Hick at a table!"
I hope this generation of doctors and lawyers are more capable of doing their job well than this generation of pizza-makers and mailmen...
I think that could be a Seinfeld episode. "You can take an order, but can you deliver the order?"
ReplyDeleteWait! Domino's has PIZZA INSURANCE for their carry-out pizzas! I'm so glad Hick didn't beat the Not-Heaven out of that pizza in his frustration. Hick knows his Seinfeld, too.
DeleteI wanted pizza for dinner tonight and thought I'd get some while waiting for the bus, there's a place in town that sells by the (big) slice and I usually get two, plus garlic bread and that comes with a free can of soft drink or bottle of water. But when I got to town I saw I only had two minutes before my bus was due, so I didn't bother. Then the bus was 15 minutes late, so I would have had plenty of time, if only I'd know how late it was going to be. I'll have pancakes for dinner instead.
ReplyDeleteDarn that late bus! You were robbed of a pizza opportunity! We enjoyed ours for two nights. Beef, sausage, and onion. Mmm. I'm sure your pancakes were good, too.
DeleteIf the bus had been on time, I still wouldn't have had pizza, I'd have been on the bus going home. Well, there's always next week, when I can arrange to get to town earlier, get my pizza slices and still make the bus.
ReplyDeleteBut you wouldn't have had the lost hope of possibly having it, either. Thinking of what MIGHT have been.
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