Technology finally pays off.
The internet, arguably the greatest technological advancement of our times [I, for one would argue that microwave popcorn is far more significant.], once intrigued and impressed me. Now I regard it as unquestionably the biggest corruption of technology of ALL times, where a 12 year old can learn to make a bomb or steal your identity, and where every moron has a platform (even me 
), and basically it just bores me now ~ I’m not even going to go into the giant flashing ads for on-line casinos or the ones that look like “system errors.” ~grrr. But finally, finally it served an actual productive purpose. My friends and I were planning to go to the mall this evening (speaking of major wastes of time), but weather was not permitting. They had predicted snow flurries off and on throughout the day with total accumulation of 1-2 inches –translating a Denver weather forecast this means umm, no snow at all. To my surprise, a very pleasant surprise, we woke up to 2 inches of snow and it continued to snow, steadily, all day and it’s still snowing –so you see they were still way off, there are at least six inches of snow on my front steps, but at least it was in my favor for a change. I love snow! However, it was definitely not ideal for driving to the mall, the streets were pretty bad by afternoon and the traffic reports were like armageddon. Anywhoo, we decided to stay in, build a fire in the fireplace and watch the Avalanche game (which also turned out to be a waste of time – I don’t know what their problem is).
>>Okay I took a bit of a break there to give the poor guy whose job it is to shovel those 6 inches of snow off my doorstep at midnight a cup of coffee.< <
Where was I? Oh yeah… So, naturally we decided pizza delivery was in order. But since we hadn’t ordered pizza since moving into our new dump, I didn’t know what location to call. I asked my roommate to go to pizzahut.com to find out. We are pretty loyal to Pizza Hut – Pan Pizza to be specific. Yes, I know some people say “That’s not real pizza.” And to them I say, this isn’t Rome this is America. When in Rome, do as the Romans, and when in America make my crust thick and greasy bygod! Then my roommate shouted excitedly, “It Says You Can Order On-line!” My friend, Suky, and I responded skeptically, “Here?” “Are you sure?” She entered our address and it not only confirmed that we could in fact place our order on their site, but as a first-time user we could get two pizzas for 12 bucks – Delivered!! We were able to select our crust, which was of course Pan (see above), and toppings; which could even be specified as “Side 1” and “Side 2” which is absolutely integral. We were able to add an order of breadsticks and could have also added a number of side dishes or a bottle of Pepsi. We were able to select method of payment; you can enter a credit card number or select C.O.D. Then when you complete your order a small pop up window shows you a status bar as your order is being processed followed by a smiley face letting you know exactly what time your order was received and that if your pizza is not delivered within 30 minutes from that time, your next one is free. It also provided –and this is important- the local phone number in case there was any problem. We even received a confirmation e-mail. It was all really quite thrilling! I realize I could have picked up the phone and placed the order in half the time, but avoiding all human contact is the primary advantage to using the internet. The only thing even remotely disappointing about the experience was when the pizza guy arrived exactly 28 minutes later. We were sure with the snow and the traffic we were going to score on their on-time guarantee. But that was okay because the pizzas were even HOT, and possibly the best Pizza Hut pizza I have ever had (or maybe I was just really hungry)! I’m sorry, but I just can’t end this without referencing that movie with Sandra Bullock, “The Net.” In which the opening sequence includes Sandra Bullock, the ultimate computer geek (yeah, that’s plausible), ordering pizza on-line as if, since she has no social life (pleeeze), she does it every day and it is completely pedestrian. …When did that movie come out?! And this technology has only NOW come to fruition? I shouldn’t have brought this up because now I’m back to my long-standing complaint “Where’s my flying car?!” I suppose the engineers slated to develop that technology spent all their time inventing the internet (Oh wait, that was Al Gore). Nope.. I’m not going to spoil the experience, I’m just going to enjoy my pleasant internet transaction in my winter wonderland. I think I’ll go make some microwave popcorn.
Posted: Wednesday, October 30th, 2002 @ 3:05 am
Categories: Random Crap.
Tags: Avalanche, Denver, dump, Hockey, Pizza Hut, snow.
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