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We decided to pick up pizza for dinner tonight from a well-known local chain. My brother called it in and I went to pick it up.
Now, a couple years ago, this chain opened a new location near where I work. Since then, we have ALWAYS ordered from this location since 1) it's very easy for me to pick something up on the way home and 2) even when I'm not working, it's still the closest.
So I went there to pick up the food after making a quick stop at Trader Joe's to grab a couple things.
Not only did they not have our order, they had no record of it.
Now, I hadn't actually witnessed my brother place the order, so I reached for my phone to call home and verify that he'd in fact done so.
Wait.....dagnabbit, my phone was still sitting on my desk at home recharging.
The Pizza Guy volunteered to let me borrow his phone. I called the house and found that he'd called the order in to a location TWO TOWNS AWAY!
That's terrific. The guy at this location asked me what the order was, but I didn't actually know, because I'd let my idiot brother make the final decision on what to get, and didn't ask.
So here I am, looking like a complete and utter moron for having gone to the WROGN freaking location and not even knowing what my order was. I could just picture the post on "Brain Burps" this guy would make about me, assuming he was a CS member. Thank you SO much, dear brother.
Well, the Pizza Guy said that - rather than have me waste gas driving to the other location to pick up pizza that would be cold by the time I got there - he'd call that location to get the order details and just re-make everything fresh for me. As far as the pizzas down there went, he said it was no big deal because they'd just put them out to sell by the slice, so it wouldn't go to waste.
So kudos to the Pizza Guy for going the extra mile to salvage my order. I gave the guy a nice tip for that. And 50 lashes for my Idiot Brother for calling the wrong damn location, not informing me, and making me look like an idiot.
Yes, my brother got a good tongue-lashing from me for his SNAFU.
Now, a couple years ago, this chain opened a new location near where I work. Since then, we have ALWAYS ordered from this location since 1) it's very easy for me to pick something up on the way home and 2) even when I'm not working, it's still the closest.
So I went there to pick up the food after making a quick stop at Trader Joe's to grab a couple things.
Not only did they not have our order, they had no record of it.
Now, I hadn't actually witnessed my brother place the order, so I reached for my phone to call home and verify that he'd in fact done so.
Wait.....dagnabbit, my phone was still sitting on my desk at home recharging.
The Pizza Guy volunteered to let me borrow his phone. I called the house and found that he'd called the order in to a location TWO TOWNS AWAY!
That's terrific. The guy at this location asked me what the order was, but I didn't actually know, because I'd let my idiot brother make the final decision on what to get, and didn't ask.
So here I am, looking like a complete and utter moron for having gone to the WROGN freaking location and not even knowing what my order was. I could just picture the post on "Brain Burps" this guy would make about me, assuming he was a CS member. Thank you SO much, dear brother.
Well, the Pizza Guy said that - rather than have me waste gas driving to the other location to pick up pizza that would be cold by the time I got there - he'd call that location to get the order details and just re-make everything fresh for me. As far as the pizzas down there went, he said it was no big deal because they'd just put them out to sell by the slice, so it wouldn't go to waste.
So kudos to the Pizza Guy for going the extra mile to salvage my order. I gave the guy a nice tip for that. And 50 lashes for my Idiot Brother for calling the wrong damn location, not informing me, and making me look like an idiot.
Yes, my brother got a good tongue-lashing from me for his SNAFU.