Pizza delivery guy gave me hope!

[demgurl]

I opened my door and there stood my pizza delivery guy smiling. He said he loved my bumper stickers and that he was a democrat as well. I told him about this site and how great you all are. He said he does not have a computer any more due to the Bush economy! We talked about that a little and then he spoke up to say that he felt the last election was stolen and the one before that! I explained I had read pages and pages about that and I believed the last honestly elected president was Clinton. The man smiled and said Clinton was his guy.

I can not explain how much hope it gives me that someone without a computer and someone about as old as this guy was (maybe 50's?) believes the same thing a lot of do. I always felt the general public did not have a good idea of what is going on due to the government propaganda news, but this truly gives me hope. I even upped the tip for him!

One medium one topping pizza : 9.62
Delivery to your door: Free
Knowing that the truth is getting to the public : Priceless!!!!!

[rzemanfl]

1. A customer who talks about politics and doesn't tip the pizza

delivery guy = a bad day at work.

[qanda]

2. Huh?

[rzemanfl]

5. There was no indication of a tip in the original post. "Bad day

at work" was the pizza delivery guy's because he didn't get a tip.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. I think you missed a sentence in her post:

"I even upped the tip for him!"

Go back and look at it. And she hasn't even edited it or anything. It was there all along.

[rzemanfl]

11. Missed that and only saw the "Delivery: free part." My bad. n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

12. That's ok, I figured that's where you were getting that impression.

I guess she just was trying to follow the Mastercard commercial thingie or something.

:shrug:

I always overtip pizza delvery drivers. They freaking deserve it.

[rzemanfl]

16. It is a dangerous job too. I try to tip 20% like in restaurants. n/t

[Lady Effingbroke]

28. Woohoo!!! Thanks for tipping so well!

Sincerely,
Lady Eff, pizza driver.


:woohoo: :yourock: :applause: :pals: :hug: :loveya: :bounce: :toast:

[Jazzgirl]

36. I always tip at least 20%.

Why not? I appreciate it and they deserve it. Bet the rich folks the deliver to barely tip. I appreciate them bringing my pizza to the door hot!

[FreedomAngel82]

35. We do too

We give a nice little tip now days cause of the gas prices. My mom is always thoughtful about that. :) Gas has gone down a little bit but still pricy for my area.

[shadowknows69]

31. I think I speak for all former pizza drivers

Or "sustenance distribution specialist" as I liked to call myself. We'd have given back all the tips we got for a couple more fine ladies answering the door naked. Wha? Oh sorry slipped into a blue collar fantasy there for a second. Don't tell my wife. ;-)

[ima_sinnic]

8. OP says she "upped the tip"

--even if no mention of a tip, why do you assume the deliver person was not tipped?

[qanda]

14. I guess you missed the part where she said she upped the tip

On Edit: I see that you just missed it.

[chalky]

4. Huh? n/m

[rzemanfl]

10. See above. The cynic in me suspects the delivery guy, if he

saw a W'04 sticker in the driveway, might have said * was chosen by God to lead our nation in these troubled times. Let's hope I'm wrong.

[demgurl]

15. rzemanfl.....

I had thought of that but he seemed so enthusiastic and he seemed to know a lot things that went on that echoed how a lot of us feel. At any rate, even if he was 'from the other side', it feels good to know information is getting out there.

[rzemanfl]

21. Sorry I misread your post, I think I kind of tuned out a bit after

the in his 50's part. I am in the latter part of mine, and cannot imagine delivering pizzas to make a buck. It's a job for young guys who want extra cash for their car payments.

[Bouncy Ball]

22. It's sad, but most of the pizza delivery drivers around here are

in their 50s or 60s and are supplementing another job or working as pizza delivery drivers because they CAN'T find a job in their field and they have to do something to eat.

:-(

[rzemanfl]

27. Ah, the joys of life in Bushworld. Don't order pizza delivered

much so I am not sure of the circumstances here, although FL has plenty of old guys. The upside probably is that they are safer drivers than the young kids, if you are inclined to look for silver linings.

[demgurl]

43. rzemanfl......

No problem. I was amazed at the person who showed up at my door. Usually there is a young 20 something male and that kind of caught me off guard. But this is the new Amerika with Bush's thriving economy. Three jobs is so uniquely American!!!!

[WI_DEM]

what makes you think he wasn't tipped?

all it says is "free delivery" lots of places offer free delivery but people still tip.

[rzemanfl]

13. See above, didn't read closely enough. n/t

[qanda]

3. Good for you

It's wonderful to find hope wherever you can these days.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. a similar story

we hired a new termite technician a while back. (This is NW Arkansas, Harrison to be exact-not exactly Blue territory). I mentioned something about Bush, and the guy said, "He stole the election, and he was behind 911."

[demgurl]

17. ayes, really does a heart good.

I have always been worried that none of the information is getting out there, but I am so glad it is.

[tallahasseedem]

19. There is hope after all!!!

nfm

[cbear70]

9. that is great!

my hubby delivers pizza as a part time job.. and he does the same thing.. he sees the greatest bumper stickers and once even a guy had a tshirt on that had that saying.. somewhere in texas a village has lost its idiot.. my husband couldn't stop laughing and ended up getting a huge tip..

funny though.. every house he goes to with a bush sticker on the car, guaranteed no tip..:eyes:

[shance]

18. How can we get our friend a computer?

I have an old one and I live in Los Angeles.

It's and OLD Dell....but it works and if someone cleaned it up, it would probably be fine.

[demgurl]

23. Well, I am across the country from you!

I am all the way in North Carolina so I am not sure how that would work.

[shance]

30. That's a bummer. Wonder why there arent used computer stores...

or are there and I just havent noticed them?

:shrug:

[rzemanfl]

44. They have to charge so much for a used computer that they

can't compete with the new ones, which keep getting cheaper and cheaper. I just gave away a PC to some snowbird neighbors who will keep it her to use in the Winter. The last one I set up in the yard with a "free" sign on it and it was hours before someone took it.

[shance]

49. Snowbird neighbors?

What are they (may I ask)?

[rzemanfl]

57. People who only live in Florida in the Winter. n/t

[demgurl]

45. There may be used computer stores....

but if you don't have the money then you can't do much of anything these days. I am not even sure how pizza delivery people can afford to do their job with gas prices being what they are. Sooner or later the stores will have to charge for delivery because they will have to pay the drivers to keep them.

[demgurl]

20. I did tip the guy!

Just wanted you all to know that I did tip the guy. Delivery is free and I was just sort of having fun with the Visa commercial. I was only planning a small tip since that is all I get reimbursed for. (I ordered the pizza as part of my job of evaluating the pizza establishment) So the only real part I paid for was that of the tip. The company pays for the rest so I thought I would be very generous.

[rzemanfl]

25. So you are like a "mystery shopper?" Need any mattress

testers?" Do you get to eat the pizza?

[demgurl]

46. Yeah, I am a mystery shopper.

And, yes, I get to eat the pizza! Well, I am on a diet so my kids actually got to eat the pizza!

[Carni]

24. What's sickening is that a guy in his 50's has to deliver pizzas

Although he may be making more than I do so who the hell knows!

[rzemanfl]

26. And then some other guy in his 50's missreads the post and

thinks Demgurl is too cheap to tip, when actually she has this sweetheart mystery shopper gig with free pizza!

[demgurl]

47. Awww, rzemanfl....

we all misread things from time to time. Some people just scan posts and they noticed I said free delivery at the bottom. We are all human. And don't be jealous of my 'sweetheart mystery shopper gig', come over and have a piece of pizza, I still have a couple left!

[Lady Effingbroke]

29. When I was delivering pizza full-time I was making about $1500-$2000

a month. About $900-$1200 of that (depending on the season, fall/football season is always busier) was TIPS!

THANK YOU TO ALL CUSTOMERS WHO TIP!!!

[Chomskyite]

33. What city was this?

I'm just curious.

[Lady Effingbroke]

37. Sorry for the late reply - it was Houston. n/t

[Carni]

38. Just as I thought -- I should be delivering pizza

I definitely make less than you LOL

I always tip 4 bucks on like a sixteen dollar ticket--(the delivery guy is probably living laughing his ass off at me lol)

Edited because I am so stupid that the whole tab is twenty bucks with tip-- but the food is usually 16 (DUH!)

[Lady Effingbroke]

40. Nope, he is really glad that he got a $4 tip, and is remembering your

address for future reference ("a good tipping customer lives here"!). :-)

[Carni]

42. I have noticed that the order taker says 45 minutes ...

But then the guy is here in 15 LOL

[rzemanfl]

39. I actually am a troll for the Internal Revenue service.

Just kidding.

[Chomskyite]

32. My hat's off to him

I started to take a pizza delivery job today, but the traffic in this city, the lack of tips in this city and the risk of accident made me chicken out. I have to exhaust my chances at other jobs first.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. Great!

Glad to hear. If you keep up with the news and poll numbers and things like that it isn't quite too hard to figure out. I just don't see how the republicans could've won this last election myself. I know they stole it but your average joe might be curious because of recent poll numbers. I think more people are on our side then we know. They're doing the old conqure and divide thing. They control the media and who gets on there and what stories are told so of course it would appear that we're few in numbers. Then when they release poll numbers we're shown that people are more with us on anything. Has anybody had any experience with republicans and if they think the election was stolen?

[Flammable Materials]

41. Too bad you didn't get his name.

I've got an older but working laptop I probably would have been willing to give up for him.

[demgurl]

48. Do you live nearby?

I can get you in touch with this guy. The great thing about being a mystery shopper is I have to take note of everything from the driver to his vehicle to whether there was sign on top. I could let you know the store and other information. BY the way, needless to say if you did this, you would not give details to let him know he was shopped.....I am actually doing this gig for the COMPETITOR! I am not supposed to expose myself in any way even though it is another chain getting my information.

[Flammable Materials]

50. No idea where you live.

I live in the Nashville area. Chances are we're probably not neighbors.

[demgurl]

52. Not quite - North Carolina.

[Mrs_Beastman]

51. Does that not make your day?

I'm sure you made his day, too. Had a similar experience (I work at the dreaded call center of a bank)talked to a 70 year old man. He just started talking about how we were in Iraq for oil and the media is worthless. This was right after the election and I needed some camaraderie. Always good to remember we are not crazy liberals, but half the country!

[demgurl]

53. Mrs_Beastman, or over half the country!

[Mrs_Beastman]

54. true, I try to be humble about the real numbers

:blush:

[OnionPatch]

55. I talked to an apolitical friend today

Usually she's uninterested in politics. But she told me today she thought they stole the election. Thank God people are starting to understand what happened to us last November.

[demgurl]

56. The information is actually making it out there despite propaganda!

This really makes me feel good. Thanks for sharing that.