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Ordering Pizza in 2015
Ordering Pizza in 2015
Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." Customer: "Hi, I'd like to order." Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?" Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610." Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Which number are you calling from, sir?" Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?" Operator: "We're wired into the system, sir." Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas..." Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir." Customer: "Whaddya mean?" Operator: "Sir, your medical records indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice." Customer: "Dang . What do you recommend, then?" Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Yogurt Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it." Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?" Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion." Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then. What's the damage?" Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, sir. The 'damage,' as you put it, heh, heh, comes to $49.99." Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number." Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit." Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here." Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn." Customer: "Never mind. Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take? Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out getting the cash, but carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward." Customer: "How the heck do you know I'm riding a bike?" Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid up, so I just assumed that you'd be using it." Customer: "@#%/$@&?#!" Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop." Customer: (Speechless) Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?" Customer: "No, nothing. Oh, yeah, don't forget the two free liters of Coke your ad says I get with the pizzas." Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics." -- |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
"Emil Luca" > wrote in message ... > Ordering Pizza in 2015 > Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." > <snip> LOL. That's funny. At least it seems so, but with all the presumptuous (sp?) advice being dished out these days it may be closer to the truth than one imagines! |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
Emil Luca > wrote:
> Ordering Pizza in 2015 > Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." Using a telephone to place an order for pizza delivery? How quaint. |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
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Ordering Pizza in 2015
> wrote in message ...
> Emil Luca > wrote: > > Ordering Pizza in 2015 > > Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." > > Using a telephone to place an order for pizza delivery? How > quaint. > Yeah - I figure you'll order by compuer and the pizza will come out of your printer. Pepperoni ink! -- Peter Aitken Remove the crap from my email address before using. |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
Peter Aitken wrote:
> > wrote in message > ... >> Emil Luca > wrote: >>> Ordering Pizza in 2015 >>> Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." >> >> Using a telephone to place an order for pizza delivery? How >> quaint. >> > > Yeah - I figure you'll order by compuer and the pizza will come out > of your printer. Pepperoni ink! Nonsense - it will arrive as an email attachment and that food replicator you've got attached to USB port #3 will turn it back into a pizza ;) Jill |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
Peter Aitken > wrote:
> Yeah - I figure you'll order by compuer and the pizza will come out of your > printer. Pepperoni ink! Its getting close to that. A few years ago, I was invited to a two day meeting of researchers at one of the largest computer companies in the world. The company hosted a fancy dinner banguet for us at one of its research facilities. After dinner, we were shown some of the work the researchers were doing and we talked with the actual researchers. One of the scientists at this meeting demonstrated a virtual department store where you can sit at a computer terminal and have a 3-d trip through a department store using a standard web browser. He showed me how the perfume department looked and in my typically dry whit, I said, but what good is it if you can't smell the perfume? Much to my surprise, the guy looked me directly in the eyes and said with a serious face "we are working on that." Right next to the virtual department store display was an ATM machine that worked by scanning the customer's iris. When my parents were kids, most people than could not imagine getting cash out of a machine any time of the day or night, or cooking in a microwave oven, or sitting in front of a computer and having a conversation (both video and audio) with someone thousands of miles away via the Internet. |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
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Ordering Pizza in 2015
Steve Wertz > wrote:
> On 26 May 2004 02:20:36 GMT, wrote: >>One of the scientists at this meeting demonstrated a virtual department store >>where you can sit at a computer terminal and have a 3-d trip through a >>department store using a standard web browser. > Ahh, The Silcon Snake Oil Syndrome. > There is no replacement for social interaction. And wiping your > own ass doesn't count. True, but in some contexts, social interaction is not required and can even pose a barrior to making consumer decisions that are in our best interest. This is why shopping via the web has gained such a strong foot hold in the retail world. |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
jmcquown > wrote:
> When your *parents* were kids? How about when I was a kid? ATM's were a > mere dream - the Internet was a government project and there certainly was > no such thing as a computer that didn't take up a huge very cold room. A > conversation with someone thousands of miles away required a telephone and > an operator to connect you. <G> Hah! My parents still haven't gained an understanding that when they call my cell phone, or receive a call from my when I use my cell phone, it is billed as a local call even if I am thousands of miles from home, as long as I am somewhere within my cell phone company's coverage area. |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
"Emil Luca" > wrote in message
... > Ordering Pizza in 2015 > Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." > > Customer: "Hi, I'd like to order." > > Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?" > > Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's > 6102049998-45-54610." > > Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, > and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln > Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Which number are you > calling from, sir?" > > Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?" > > Operator: "We're wired into the system, sir." > > Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat > Special pizzas..." > > Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir." > > Customer: "Whaddya mean?" > > Operator: "Sir, your medical records indicate that you've got very high > blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care > provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice." It's funny - but perhaps prophetic too. And I disagree with the remark about the National Health Care. We already are on the cusp of just such intrusions with private health care now sharing information with credit card companies and in some cases even owning credit card companies. They already have the ability now to investigate purchases to see if you are in fact say a non-smoker as you claimed when they accepted you. Hard to claim otherwise when your CC bill has purchases from the local smoke shop. Paul |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
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says... > wrote: > > Peter Aitken > wrote: > > > >> Yeah - I figure you'll order by compuer and the pizza will come out > >> of your printer. Pepperoni ink! > > > > When my parents were kids, most people than could not imagine getting > > cash out of a machine any time of the day or night, or cooking in a > > microwave oven, or sitting in front of a computer and having a > > conversation (both video and audio) with someone thousands of miles > > away via the Internet. > > When your *parents* were kids? How about when I was a kid? ATM's were a > mere dream - the Internet was a government project and there certainly was > no such thing as a computer that didn't take up a huge very cold room. A > conversation with someone thousands of miles away required a telephone and > an operator to connect you. <G> As I read this, the idea of getting cash from a machine was in fact a dream at one point in my life. But now everything is electronic... I write one check per month and even that's going away. Everything else is either swiped, punched, PayPal'd or BillPay'd. I use less and less actual cash as the years go by. |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
"Tony P." wrote:
> As I read this, the idea of getting cash from a machine was in fact a > dream at one point in my life. But now everything is electronic... I > write one check per month and even that's going away. Everything else is > either swiped, punched, PayPal'd or BillPay'd. I use less and less > actual cash as the years go by. Thinking back (and not that long ago or far away), it was a huge hassle to get to the bank at lunch (in a long line) to cash your paycheck, or have to race to the bank to get money before it closed at noon on Saturday, whatever. You really had to plan on the weekends to have enough cash on hand. I don't even know if you could charge groceries then, but it's just as well. Now, I can go away to a different city and know I can get my hands on some cash, no big deal. I remember going to Disney World once, my American Express was supposed to let me get cash. Okay, last day or so of my vacation, I felt like, yeah, I could use some more money. Turns out the deal was, I could write a check for $100. Wow, big friggin whoop. Yeah, it's easy to forget how convenient banking has become. Most of my bills are automatically deducted from my checking account, no more S***, I forgot to mail the bills. My tax refunds? Zap, right into my checking account. Funny, when I implemented direct deposit at my former company, so many people were afraid their check would disappear into outer space or something, now it's just commonplace (obviously). Fun trip down memory lane. nancy (having Arthur Treacher's fish and chips for dinner, and got the malt vinegar packets this time) |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
On Wed, 26 May 2004 19:45:49 GMT, "Paul M. Cook©®"
> wrote: >"Emil Luca" > wrote in message ... >> Ordering Pizza in 2015 >> Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." >> >> Customer: "Hi, I'd like to order." >> >> Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?" >> >> Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's >> 6102049998-45-54610." >> >> Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland >Drive, >> and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln >> Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Which number are >you >> calling from, sir?" >> >> Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?" >> >> Operator: "We're wired into the system, sir." >> >> Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat >> Special pizzas..." >> >> Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir." >> >> Customer: "Whaddya mean?" >> >> Operator: "Sir, your medical records indicate that you've got very high >> blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care >> provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice." > >It's funny - but perhaps prophetic too. And I disagree with the remark >about the National Health Care. We already are on the cusp of just such >intrusions with private health care now sharing information with credit card >companies and in some cases even owning credit card companies. They already >have the ability now to investigate purchases to see if you are in fact say >a non-smoker as you claimed when they accepted you. Hard to claim otherwise >when your CC bill has purchases from the local smoke shop. > >Paul > 'but they were pipe cleaners for my pot pipe!' your pal, tommy |
Ordering Pizza in 2015
"jmcquown" > wrote in message ... > Peter Aitken wrote: > > > wrote in message > > ... > >> Emil Luca > wrote: > >>> Ordering Pizza in 2015 > >>> Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..." > >> > >> Using a telephone to place an order for pizza delivery? How > >> quaint. > >> > > > > Yeah - I figure you'll order by compuer and the pizza will come out > > of your printer. Pepperoni ink! > > Nonsense - it will arrive as an email attachment and that food replicator > you've got attached to USB port #3 will turn it back into a pizza ;) > Wow - and then spam would/could be literal. Oh my Dog, the future's a scary thing. -Jay |
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