I used to deliver pizza, back when minimum wage was $3.35, x 10 hours = $33.50 salary +$150.00 in tips & commission.
I delivered pizza on foot during spring break in Daytona Beach, this is an experience that words can not accurately convey.
I delivered pizza in cocoa beach Florida, average run was 10 miles round trip, one day I went out on a delivery and looked east a saw the shuttle lifting off so I put the delivery on hold and watched
Back in the day the pizza drivers had metal hot boxes that they were required to use while delivering, these metal boxes had a big can of sterno burning in a compartment in the back, one driver got out, flipped his seat forward, took the pizza out, and when he flipped the seat back it hit the spray nozzle on an aerosol can (starter fluid I think) he went to the apartment to make his delivery and when he came back his car was an inferno.
Also, back in the day, the signs we had to put on our roof were bigass metal things that weighed 20 pounds and had wires with clamps on them to hook to the car battery.
Heres a good one, the drivers would always leave their cars running in front of the store, one saturday afternoon a driver says to another "Hey, whos that in your car?" as the car peels away, the two drivers run out and get in a car and start chasing the guy, about five minutes later we start getting calls from all over town about two of our cars driving like phsychos, hopping curbs, crossing medians, wrong way on an off ramp, they didnt get the car back that day.
UMMM..... Hmm, oh yeah, the pissed customer bitching about his hour late pizza who comes down to the store with a baseball bat and starts banging it on the counter............
Pizzas falling off the sides at the end of the conveyor oven when the damn thing gets backed up and wont fking stop!
The driver who kicked out the glass front door cause he was flipping out about having 50 one hour old deliveries to make
The driver who didnt want to be robbed AGAIN so he beat the sht out of the guy.
And finally, the store that got robbed by four guys with UZZIS (that how it was told to me, probably tech 9's) one week after I quit.
Hehehe, no, I am not a pizza delivery driver, thanks for helping me remember why
