How David Weber orders a pizza
The telephone rang.
Jason Wilkins roused himself out of his dough-and-flour-addled stupor, and gazed at the ringing noise emanating from the receiver. He was tall, even for an American, this despite his father's very average height and his mother's petite build. Some had suggested -- in hushed tones and never to his face, of course -- that it was because his mother had long ago taken an ... interest in the very tall mailman who'd graced their neighborhood mail delivery route for so many years. Mail delivery was one of those necessary evils of modern American life; a citizen could send his friends and colleagues e-mail faxes that arrived in the blink of an eye, but there was always the reactionary old contingent who'd never wanted to bother with these "modern contraptions" who insisted on writing letters on paper and sending them through the antiquated network of delivery trucks and post offices, and so long as this contingent existed the mail would also have to exist.
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2012-02-18 03:20 am (UTC)
For Harrington Pizza (motto: "Order any topping you want for your pizza and we'll put it Honor!") names are more properly spelled, but the oven are more advanced, with more blinkenlighten.
For Norfressa Pizza, of course the pizza guy spends the first bit of time denying he's the pizza guy. Or wants anything to do with pizzas. Then turns out he's the best damn pizza guy ever.
And we don't want to mention Dark Pizza, where it looks like you're getting a regular pizza until the delivery guy shows up at your door and he's Dracula.
Edited at 2012-02-18 03:27 am (UTC)