{"id":666,"date":"2006-09-12T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/12\/666\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T20:44:59","slug":"666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/12\/666\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Pizza Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, a while back I alluded to my last decade’s employment in what is essentially the same “white collar”Actually, I normally wear a t-shirt and jeans (when I even bother to wear pants!), I just mean “as opposed to really working for a living”<\/footnote>. job. However, this doesn’t mean I can’t understand people with different types of jobs–as I commented elsewhere<\/a>, I don’t “come from money” in any meaningful sense, and so I have worked some jobs that are pretty distant from what I do now.<\/p>\n

For instance, I have never done pizza delivery, but I did spend a couple of months working as a chicken delivery<\/a> driver. I drove a little yellow car with a rooster on the roof<\/a>, and did the deliveries in a hideous blue polyester uniform.<\/p>\n

So, I have some idea about the world of delivery drivers. However, apparently either the world of pizza delivery drivers is quite different from the world of the chicken-mobile, or else Minneapolis has a side I haven’t personally seen, or some combination thereof, because some of the stories in this article about the experiences of six Minneapolis delivery drivers<\/a> is nothing like anything I ever saw. <\/p>\n

For instance:<\/p>\n

I’ve been tipped in pot. One time I delivered to this girl on Hennepin Avenue, and she said, “Wanna come upstairs and smoke some pot and do some whip-its?” So I said okay, and hung out with her for about half an hour. But I get dyslexic when I smoke pot, so it’s not very good for me. My math skills get poor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that never happened to me. And that’s not even talking about the naked people.<\/p>\n

There is always someone waiting in the wings. The perverted puppeteer. It is an icky, icky world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The CityPages also runs a blog that is written from the perspective of a pizza guy<\/a>. On the whole it makes me pretty happy I have the kind of job I do. I’m usually a pretty good tipper (enough that I sometimes get in trouble for overtipping when I’m managing a shared bill) but the Rich White Guys vs Flipper Boy<\/a> story is enough to make me add on another buck or two next time someone brings me a pie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, a while back I alluded to my last decade’s employment in what is essentially the same “white collar”Actually, I normally wear a t-shirt and jeans (when I even bother to wear pants!), I just mean “as opposed to really working for a living”. job. However, this doesn’t mean I can’t understand people with different types of jobs–as I commented… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-666","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}