Comments on: Sometimes The Best Thing You Can Say About The Day Is, “Hey, At Least I Didn’t Have To Wear The Pizza Suit.”

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:52:20 +0000

Oh Rebecca. Damn. That kills me to read that. I’m sending all my love and prayers okay? Joey is gonna rock the suburbs JUST like my Mimi. Breaking bones and sucking down the marrow for kicks, okay? HANG IN THERE. Sending you love.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:06:08 +0000

….Just had to come back to tell you thanks again for the line about Amelia breaking the bones of her foes and sucking down the marrow……….cause Joey’s neurologist just called and they want to do an MRI (which he has metal in his leg and I don’t understand how he can have an MRI with metal inside his leg) because they think he might have either an optic giloma or a brain tumor………….Thinking of Joey breaking bones and sucking down marrow right now helps me………..(I’ll probably blog about it later……much later)

He needs prayers

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:10 +0000

I just about peed myself reading this story. Having worked in a Italian resturant 5 years (I was a sucker for punishment I guess) I remember those Phil managers. Thankfully at one point we had 2 or 3 managers who were like Cesar and I know they would have made a few people dress up in a bowl of pasta just to take pictures and generally humilate them in front of everyone else. Of course I knew a few people who would have loved to get into that costume and dance around the resturant and outside just for shits and giggles too.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:04:37 +0000

Picture it. 1983. A new store opens down the street from my office. As I ride the bus home that evening, I spy a poor, dear, sweet individual dressed as a giant green M&M standing on the corner trying to draw attention to the new place.

Two young women were seated behind me. One saw the M&M. One didn’t. Immediately after we turned a corner and the M&M was no longer visible from inside the bus.

“OMG! Did you see that giant green M&M standing on the corner back there?”

“No. What HAVE you been smoking?”

Hilarity ensued.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:49:25 +0000

The best thing would have been if the one delivering pizza, dressed as pizza, waited outside the front door for a bit and right when the person was taking a bite screamed “STOP EATING MY BROTHER”

No? Maybe just funny to me.

And it is now custom for line cooks (instead of always talking about how they are Mexican) to say “Hola Mami, you speak Spanish? aaah Why not?”

The joys of working in a restaurant…

By: Melissa @MBonn

Melissa @MBonn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:43:14 +0000

So true. I loved that movie, my husband can’t understand why.

By: Melissa @MBonn

Melissa @MBonn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:42:35 +0000

HA! This reminded me of a time I had forgotten when I dressed up in a big dog costume. It was definitely an experience.

I really wish the people who delivered my food would dress up as the food. I’d tip extra.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:43:34 +0000

MY best friend made a large AwfulAwful (what the local creamery calls their milkshakes… it means Awful Big, Awful Good, don’t get me started) costume for Halloween in High School, then wore it on the street corner outside the creamery when she worked there for a whole summer. She did this willingly and even with glee. I was not surprised when she later studied musical theater.

And I know you’ve seen the movie “Waiting,” no? Perfect for those of us who slung beers (or pizzas) for a living.

By: Jennifer June

Jennifer June — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:43:30 +0000

I tried to get my boyfriend to dress up as a piece of pizza at work, for Halloween, one year.

You’d have thought I’d thrown his cat out the window by the look he gave me.

By: panamahat

panamahat — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:43:04 +0000

Yep. GREAT story. Thankfully I have never had to wear any kind of suit (other than my birthday suit) in my life. Let’s hope it stays that way.