Employee of the month…
[A major plug announcement!]
The Comics Coast-to-Coast Podcast has selected Capes and Babes as their “pick of the week” this week. Justin Thompson said some really great things about Capes & babes in the Coast-to-Coast episode #55 podcast. You can click on the episode #55 link to listen to the podcast from their web site or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes.
Now… on to the blog entry for today’s (10/22/08) comic…
In case there are any pizza delivery people out there that might be offended by this week’s strips, I feel I should let you all know that I was a pizza delivery guy myself. For four years. That was my primary job during the summer months of college - and, thanks to some very generous managers, my job during Christmas and Spring breaks or whenever I came back from school and could work a night or two.
Of course, it also helped that the managers who kept me on the payroll knew I would bust my butt whenever I came back from school and worked for them. It probably didn’t hurt that most of them were hired as drivers the same week that I was also but, instead of going off to school, they stayed there and rose up the managerial ladder, so to speak.
My dad used to chastise me quite a bit about working at, essentially, a dead end job. And, if you don’t have any ambitions to manage a pizza delivery chain (which I didn’t), then delivering pizzas pretty much is a dead end job. But by and large, delivery pizzas was a pretty fun job. On most nights, because I knew every possible short cut in my area, there wasn’t a whole lot of stress delivering a pizza on time. Sure, there were those moments when one or two drivers didn’t want to work a Friday or Saturday night so that put extra stress on the drivers that did show up but because all of my friends seemed to work there, even these stressful nights seemed more like “play” than “work”.
And boy… when your shift is over, pizza delivery guys and gals sure know how to unwind. And unwind we did!
-Chris
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October 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
True enough on the management or dead end idea. My cousin started delivering pizzas for a certain pizza chain in college and ended up becoming the VP of Marketing for the entire corporation
I so wish I were closer to that cousin (lol) or that I liked that brand of pizza even!
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 am
The heck with offending pizza delivery guys! (Oh, and I was one too.) What about offending us NASCAR fans? “Kyle Rudabaker” my lead foot. Great likeness of old Ironhead!
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hey Palmetto - thanks for checking out the strip and the archives. Much appreciated. A little FYI about yesterday’s strip and “Kyle Rudabaker”… originally, Kyle’s last name was gonna be “Rudamaucher” but that was too long to fit into Roy’s word bubble so I had to shorten it to something else… and Rudabaker was what I came up with.
And, to show my complete NASCAR ignorance, he was supposed to be a conglomerate of the only four NASCAR drivers I’m really familiar with… Earnhardt, Earnhardt Jr., The Rainbow Warrior and Jimmy Johnson.
So now I’m REALLY going to offend all the NASCAR fans out there for sure. LOL!
-Chris