Castle Magus

Basically, you just take a small pizza's worth of mozzarella and pepperoni, but rather than spreading that over a pizza crust, you instead spread it over a bowl of spaghetti. And that's pretty much it. That's Pepperoni Spaghetti. It's great.

This was one of the Saturday specials at a restaurant I went to today (the Olympic Family Restaurant in Walnut Cove, NC, for those in the area). I'd never seen it anywhere else or even heard of it before, really. It's such a simple, almost no-brainer concept that I don't know why every place doesn't have it, though.

Just like last week, except Papa John's this time. Not that I'm complaining, of course. Before this, it's mostly been old gray-haired dudes doing the deliveries.

This has to be one of the most disgusting things I've seen in a long while, so I'm going to share it with the world.

(NSFW warning for language.)

Note to self: NEVER EVER AGAIN ORDER A PIZZA ON A SUNDAY FROM THE LOCAL PIZZA HUT.

I ordered a pizza at 1:16pm (according to the original order form). It still hasn't gotten here yet. It arrived while I was in the middle of typing this post.

On the upside, I did call them at around 20 minutes past the original estimate of 95 minutes (or around 3:10pm), and the manager said I would be getting this order for free.

On the downside, it still hasn't gotten here yet. In 25 minutes, it will have been 2 hours past the original estimate of 95 minutes. I will be calling them again if it's not here by then.

Even though it was late, I still offered to give the driver a 5 dollar tip (in cash, this time, since I wasn't doing the credit card thing this time, since this one was free). My reasoning was that if he's the only driver he's probably being stretched to his limit, so it would be only fair. However, he refused to take it because he "wouldn't feel right about it". His reasoning was that the pizza was an hour and a half late. Well, I mean, it's not his fault that he's the only driver and all, and I felt kind of weird because he didn't take it, but oh well, that's another $5 saved (in addition to the original $25 or so for the pizzas themselves).

Um... okay. LJ went down for about an hour while I was in the middle of writing this post. o_O

Well, anyway...

So, I ordered a pizza tonight online. The order result thing said to expect the delivery at around 8:41pm. They're usually pretty punctual about it, rarely being either late or early by more than just a few minutes.

Okay, I was sitting here and I heard a car loudly drive up a few minutes ago (8:25pm or so) and I'm like "Oh, the pizza's early? That's cool."

I went to the door and looked through the peep hole. The pizza guy was standing there talking to one of my neighbors, who was apparently the one who had just drove up. I waited until he came to the door before opening it. He then knocked on the outer storm door with these tiny, mousy micro-taps that I barely heard even though I was standing right there at the door.

I opened the door and he said, "Oh, sorry, I was about to leave. I've been out here like five minutes knocking on the door and you didn't show up." So, apparently, he was even earlier than it had seemed. Oh, and he said he left his phone behind so he couldn't call me.

I told him that A) I hadn't been expecting him for another 15 minutes or so and B) I hadn't heard him knocking on the door until then.

See, now this is another one of my pet peeves. If you're going to knock on somebody's door, knock on the freaking door already. Don't just barely touch it and hope that someone just happens to be standing right there and maybe possibly can hear you tapping. I had four fans running in here because it's so freaking hot, and I also had the TV up pretty loud while playing Persona 3 FES in order to compensate for the fans being on (though I muted it when I heard the car drive up). So, there's no possible way I would have heard this guy from in the other room.

Well, whatever. Pizza came early, so it's all cool, I guess. If he had taken off without delivering it, however, I'd've had to cut a bitch.

UPS just delivered the new microwave, to replace the one that died. I hooked it up and heated up a couple slices of pizza, and it seems to be working fine. So, all is well in Me-Land once again, at least on the microwave front.

Hmm, I ordered a pizza right after the last microwave died, and ordered another pizza right before this one arrived. Coincidence? I think so. Entirely.

So I finally got around to ordering an OGIC T-shirt. For once, I didn't immediately forget about it.

While I was in an ordering mood, I also ordered a pizza.

*nods sagely*