do you know mr. visualbasic?
we have this regular customer at the hell's pizza. he's so regular, you could call him "bran muffin." but i won't. i'll call him mr. visualbasic. and, for the record, he's handicapped or brain-damaged or mentally divergent. possibly an amalgamation of the three.
i delivered to him last week and he said he was giving me the exact amount. when i counted it in my car it was 25 cents short. i counted twice to be sure. also, take note, he never tips. we (the drivers) have come to accept this fact. he's probably on a fixed income or something. no big deal. but it's one thing not to tip, and an entirely different thing to short the driver. that means the driver has to pay for whatever wasn't collected for the food.
i knew it wasn't something mr. visualbasic would do on purpose. most likely a quarter got dropped or whatever. so, i decide to let him know what happened.
his order came in at 5:50 pm on the dot, and i was up next to take the order. on the way to the delivery location, i formulated a complete speech to tell him that he shorted me money, without being a jerk about it.
i get there and ring the doorbell. he opens the door and i tell him his total. he gives me a 10-spot and asks if i have change. as i'm reaching into my pocket, i say, "i just wanted to let you know that last time i came here, you shorted me—" and before i could finish, he says, "25 cents?" i was caught off guard, but i managed to say, "yeah, 25 cents." and he said something like he found a quarter on the ground or whatever. i wasn't listening, because i was trying to figure out what to do with the long speech i spent so much time on, which had just been rendered useless.
i'm counting out his change and he asks, "do you want to keep 25 cents?" and i was like, "yeah, that would be great." i gave him his change minus the 25 cents and he smiled and closed the door.
victory.
i delivered to him last week and he said he was giving me the exact amount. when i counted it in my car it was 25 cents short. i counted twice to be sure. also, take note, he never tips. we (the drivers) have come to accept this fact. he's probably on a fixed income or something. no big deal. but it's one thing not to tip, and an entirely different thing to short the driver. that means the driver has to pay for whatever wasn't collected for the food.
i knew it wasn't something mr. visualbasic would do on purpose. most likely a quarter got dropped or whatever. so, i decide to let him know what happened.
his order came in at 5:50 pm on the dot, and i was up next to take the order. on the way to the delivery location, i formulated a complete speech to tell him that he shorted me money, without being a jerk about it.
i get there and ring the doorbell. he opens the door and i tell him his total. he gives me a 10-spot and asks if i have change. as i'm reaching into my pocket, i say, "i just wanted to let you know that last time i came here, you shorted me—" and before i could finish, he says, "25 cents?" i was caught off guard, but i managed to say, "yeah, 25 cents." and he said something like he found a quarter on the ground or whatever. i wasn't listening, because i was trying to figure out what to do with the long speech i spent so much time on, which had just been rendered useless.
i'm counting out his change and he asks, "do you want to keep 25 cents?" and i was like, "yeah, that would be great." i gave him his change minus the 25 cents and he smiled and closed the door.
victory.
...katohater : 11:35 PM
5 Comments:
Lets hear the speech.
No Tips? I say pretend to raise the price of pizza when he calls.
Yeah you dont fuck with VB. You just bring him his medium handtossed ham and beef pizza and 47 cents 3 times a week right around 6pm.
Hes kinda liike your retarded older brother. You cant hate him because hes retarded and has been around longer than you.
Ive also found that the nights I deliver his pizza are amoung my best nights. I look forward to the run.
See, I'll plead ignorance on this one. I never worked for a pizza place. Did work for McDonald's but I am sure that doesn't compare at all. having a regular customer for the store is better in the end than trying to demand a tip I suppose.
regardless of what's best for the store, if we want to keep our pathetic jobs, we don't get to demand anything.
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