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- If using a touch-tone, press random numbers while ordering. Ask the person taking the order to stop doing that.
- Make up a charge-card name. Ask if they accept it.
- Order a Big Mac Value Meal.
- Terminate the call with, "Remember, we never had this conversation."
- Tell the order taker a rival pizza place is on the other line and you're going with the lowest bidder.
- Put an extra edge in your voice when you say "crazy bread."
- Stutter on the letter "p."
- Rattle off your order with a determined air. If they ask if you would like drinks with that, panic and become disoriented.
- Change your accent every three seconds.
- Put the accent on the last syllable of "pepperoni." Use the long "i" sound.
- Have your pizza "shaken, not stirred."
- Move the mouthpiece farther and farther from your lips as you speak.
- When the call ends, jerk the mouthpiece back into place and scream good-bye at the top of your lungs.
- When they say "What would you like? say, "Huh? Oh, you mean now."
- Amuse the order taker with little-known facts about country music.
- Ask what the order taker is wearing.
- Ask what topping goes best with well-aged Chardonnay.
- Order a slice, not a whole pizza. Argue about it.
- Shout "I'm through with men/women! Send me a dozen of your best, Gaston!"
- Doze off in the middle of the order, catch yourself, and say "Where was I? Who are you?"
- Psychoanalyze the order taker.
- Say you're calling from the regional office. Tell the order taker to tell the manager to tell his supervisor he's fired.
- Call to complain about service. Later, call to say you were drunk.
- Ask for the guy who took your order last time.
- Wonder aloud if you should trim those nose hairs.
- Try to talk while drinking something the whole call.
- Ask about pizza maintenance and repair. You know, like is there a warranty or can you purchase a service contract?
- Say "Kssssssssssssssht" rather loudly into the phone. Ask if they felt that.
- Detect the order taker's psychic aura.
- Perfect a celebrity's voice. Stress that you won't take any crap from some two-bit can't-hack-it pimple-faced gofer.
- Put them on hold.
- Teach the order taker a secret code. Use code on all subsequent orders.
- Mumble, "There's a bomb under your seat." When asked to repeat that,say "I said 'sauce smothered with meat'."
- Get taker's name. Later, call exactly on the hour to say, "This is your (time of day) wake-up call, So-and-so." Hang up.
- Hesitatingly ask them how you can be sure they'll really deliver it?
- Tell them to send a driver who can keep his mouth shut about anything he sees or hears.
- Start the call by playing a tape recording that says, "If you are a first time user of Microsoft Pizza Order Quick Pro, press one. To begin taking the order, press two. At any time you may return to this menu by pressing star."
- At random intervals throughout the order, take the phone away from your mouth and say, "Ohh, yeah, baby, like that," "softer," "harder!," "higher," "down a little bit, yeah, yeah!"
- After the order taker tells you the price at the end of the call, pause several seconds, inhale deeply and ask "Do you know how much I admire the works Milan Kundera?"
- Tell them the elevator's broke so make sure to have the pizza in a heat retaining bag, cause you're apartmant's on the 88th floor.
- If they ask for your telephone number say "Well you seem nice and all, but I'm kinda going out with someone now.
- If any of the above practices are rejected by the order taker, say inyour best pouty voice, "Last guy let me do it."
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