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July 15, 2005
no pizza box for you
I need an empty, clean pizza box to use as a prop for a shoot I'm doing tomorrow.
I thought that obtaining one would be easy. For the first time, I went into the pizza joint around the corner from my house (the pizza there always looks horrible, I prefer "Smiling Pizza" a few blocks away).
I asked one guy behind the counter for the pizza box. He deferred to a different guy, whom he sent over to me without relaying any information, so that I had to request the pizza box a second time. This guy nodded, and laboriously retrieved a box from the top of the stack. Mission accomplished, right?
Nope -- this guy then asked yet a THIRD guy how much he should CHARGE me for the pizza box. At this point I was only staying so that I could laugh at whatever amount they told me and then leave and report that detail on my website.
Sadly, dear readers, I have no such monetary figure for you. Since I had not bought any actual pizza, this third guy -- the commander in chief and grand vizier of the pizza joint, apparently -- refused to even SELL me a box.
I was too amused to argue, said "Okay" with a smile, and left.
I only wish that I had lingered long enough to offer ridiculously large sums of money and be refused again.
"Five thousand dollars!"
"Did you buy any pizza?"
"Six thousand!"
Oh well. I don't know what I'm going to do. There are only 87 million other pizza places in this city. Some of which I might actually eat at.
Posted by tony at July 15, 2005 07:16 PM
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that is absolutely ridiculous. i did this once back in high school, except i needed brown paper bags. i went into a local grocery store and the cashier refused, so i grabbed a stack and bolted to my car.
when all else fails, grab and run.
Posted by: katey at July 21, 2005 04:45 PM
