Internet and Pizza

Yesterday was Friday and on many Fridays we get Pizza. The Grandparents aren't around and we let ourselves be lazy by not making dinner but picking up a pizza, usually from Papa Murphy's Take and Bake. With pizza from there we can feed whole family for about 10-12 bucks, and many times we have leftovers.

Well, Bridget and I were kinda sick of Papa Murphy's. It is fine pizza, but the same thing gets old (unless your name is Grandpa Leroy, and then you can eat the same pizza from the same place, ham and pineapple from a local restaurant, all the time). Having not ordered from anywhere else in quite sometime I went online to see if I could find any specials or coupons. I found not only what the specials were, but that I could order pizza online and that the order would be directed to the proper store. This was true for Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa Johns. Papa Johns had the best deal and I went ahead and ordered it online. I thought the whole set up was pretty cool. I ordered at about 4PM because our whole day was off a bit and we were hungry. For Bridget and I, it was only going to be our second real meal of the day. The boys normally get hungry around 4:30 or 5:00 and start trying to snack if dinner is not ready. Thus the order time made sense. Then started the longest delivery time of my life.

Again order time was approximately 4PM, but not past that time.

At 4:30 I called to make sure that they got our order. The Papa Johns site said that I would get a confirmation email, which never came. Nevertheless, the people there at the restaurant said that the order had been processed and that the pizza was almost out of the oven. I thought things were going fine, although I wished the confirmantion email had come so that I didn't have to call. Afterall, the idea is to avoid calling, right?

At 5:10 I call Papa Johns and ask what the heck is taking so long. They are kind of vague, but apparently the delivery guy is out with our pizza and it should be here shortly. I am not impressed anymore, but whatever, I am hungry and the kids and Bridget are cranky. I start holding off Jack with some Blue Diamond smokehouse almonds. He love them and he starts to come out of a real cranky fit.

5:35 I call and I am calm but obviously disgruntled. I am told that the driver has been gone for quite some, about an hour, and they have heard nothing from him. They tell me that the pizza will be free. Nice, but I and the whole family are pretty hungry, having been told that pizza will be soon here for well over an hour. 4 and 2 year olds are not known for their patience afterall.

5:40 I give up and start making the kids food. I throw a waffle in the toaster for Ryan and start making Mac n' Cheese for Jack.

5:55 I call to get them to send us out another pizza. I am hungry and Bridget will soon have to leave for some event at her sister's house. And dang it, I want some flipping pizza--I have been pretty good for the past couple of weeks with the diet and working out and I want a reward. Papa Johns is screwing with my reward night and I am getting a little worked up. They are in the process of seeing if this is possible or if they need to wait until they hear from the delivery guy. Then, "ding dong", it is the delivery guy. I don't know what he was doing, and I didn't ask. I was still on the phone when he came and so I let the store talk to him. I got the pizza and the soda pop and I wasn't charged. He gave me back the phone and headed back to the store to face whatever consequences there were, if any.

The pizza would have been great if it was hot. Pepperoni, ham, italian sausage, olives and mushrooms. But it was barely above room temperature. We ate it and the boys still had some along with waffles and Mac 'n cheese. I ate too much because I was pretty hungry. I probably gained a pound yesterday because of the pizza and the fudge that arrived yesterday from Grandma and Grandpa Reed. Oh, and the fudge was made by monks in a monastery in Oregon. Weird, but it was really good.

Anyway, I will stay with the phone ordering. I don't know if that was the issue, but ordering online really is no better than ordering on the phone unless you are going to place an order for delivery in the future. You can order up to 21 days ahead of time, which is kind of cool as long as the pizza is not when it shows up.