The price of peace, in pizza
Tonight I need to read two sets of papers, finalize senior t-shirt orders, diploma orders, and online Christmas orders (mall evasion strategy). And I need to correct those yearbook proof pages to send back to the plant via FedEx tomorrow. (It would really really help if my glasses would come back soon with their new lenses, since most of my essential tasks involve seeing.)
No time for cooking and cleaning up this night. It’s cop-out night - Papa John’s Pizza, delivered.
Downstairs, my son makes his request clear, out of his sister’s hearing, “Thin crust, Mom. [Sister] always orders thick crust. I hate thick crust. She always gets her way.”
Upstairs, I tell my daughter we’re ordering pizza. “Mom, be sure to order thick crust,” she whispers. “I hate thin crust.”
Pizza places make pizzas with different toppings on each side, but I don’t suppose they make them with crusts half thick and half thin. Fortunately Papa John’s has a special right now - two large one-topping pizzas (both pepperoni, mind you - did I mention that I do not love pepperoni?) for $16.99.
The pizza guy is here with way too much pizza for three. My daughter is answering the door in her glittery Christmas party dress and a pair of green argyle socks. She’s changed her mind about wanting a Nano - as of today, she wants her own little digital camera instead.
(OK - I could have made sandwiches in the time it took to write this. Point taken.)
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R J Keefe wrote:
Point declined. Making sandwiches for three and writing a blog entry for potential millions - these are not fungible activities.
Posted on 07-Dec-05 at 12:53 am | Permalink
jo(e) wrote:
Ordering pizza has saved my sanity time and time again. Lucky, the one place that delivers to our house does not offer choices about the thickness of the crust because I know my children would never agree ….
Posted on 08-Dec-05 at 8:41 am | Permalink
mindspin wrote:
jo(e) - No doubt if Papa John’s made an “in between” crust, neither too think nor too thin, neither would like it ;->.
R J Keefe - I’m not sure I give a fig for potential millions, but the readers I do have are wonderful folks. That is not to slight, of course, either potential millions or a good sandwich.
Posted on 08-Dec-05 at 10:04 pm | Permalink