Photo from Papa John's website
Yesterday was one of those days were very little happens besides some bumbling around trying to get some work done and after a long and tiring day we felt like having a takeaway pizza, something we don't do very often. I have a collection of leaflets that have come through the letterbox advertising various takeaways ranging from pizza to Indian via Chinese, fried chicken and kebabs that I keep in a drawer in my office so this should not have been such an ordeal. Next time we decide to have a takeaway we are going to need to start earlier as this was in danger of turning into an ordeal, and the more of an ordeal it became the hungrier and more irritable I became. Incidentally, the reason I am keeping all the leaflets is for an art project that I will probably never get round to doing but it doesn't seem to have stopped me from hoarding these things. Maybe in the future someone will discover them all and write a detailed history of Nottingham's takeaway emporiums of the past, or maybe they'll just dump them in the recycling bin where they probably belong. Part of the ballache of finding somewhere was the fact that a lot of places either had closed down or changed their phone number, and another was sifting through to try and find somewhere that wasn't doing Halal meat. The payoff was that the only suitable place finally provided us with the pizzas we wanted did not sell Coca-Cola, only Pepsi. Why on earth anyone still sells Pepsi is beyond me as it has never happened the other way round where someone has had to tell a customer "I'm sorry we don't have Pepsi, will Coke do?". A similar thing used to happen with pubs that didn't sell Guinness but would offer Murphy's as a shitty substitute.
Still from the film The Invention of Lying
Another problem I have is nowadays you don't get that little plastic device on top of your pizza anymore. I don't know what purpose this thing served but it looked like a small table from a doll house. Every time, and I mean every time, I got this I would say in a disappointed voice how I needed chairs for my collection and already had a table.
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