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The Pizza Place

What do you do when you walk into a Pizza Place? You order, wait at least 30 minutes, right? Yes, and then the only other option is to listen, never dreaming you can also learn. The delivery lady, a young, black who is exhausted bolts through the door carrying the same large pizza warmers that she left with an hour ago. Bedragled and void of smile, she stops at the counter saying, "Whew,what a night I done had!" "Girl, what chew doin back here? You still got dem pizzas? What happened"? "It wuzn't on the boulevard. It was down dis gravel road and my car bumped all over all dem holes. Dey ain't on the boulevard, dey ain't! Aint no people dere"! "Girl, Waz da matter wit you? I gave yew a map"! "Yeah, I knowed but dey didn't have no money to pay me wit" "Girl, dey done paid by credit card. You gotta go back dere now!" An older delivery man is sitting at a table waiting to pick up his order to deliver it "somewhere" and he shouts loud, "Girl, Welcome to my world!" then he adds "I gotta go pick up my daughter but if I can work an extra hour, I'll get a friend to pick her up." OMG, I can feel their pain but do they really have any pain? This is a normal work week for them and they are grateful for that extra hour of work to get that pay. This is the real world. I don't live in the real world and I don't think that I ever did. Talk to me..

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 2/24/2011 4:34:00 PM
Nice narrative with well expressed thought with a short story, Judy
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Date: 2/24/2011 6:38:00 AM
Damn! I was chuckling quite a bit. Lot of truth spoken here. Well done!
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