So the buzzer for my apt. rings. My window is close to the door. Some guy is out there with a pizza and a bag covered in grease and steaming in the cold, he's juggling the pizza, this greasy bag, and his cell phone while he somehow hits my buzzer again
I think "well, I don't need anything. But I'll see what's up" I leave my apt, go down the stairs to the front door
I can see it's just this guy, his hands are full, nobody else there, from the window
"Somebody ordered a pizza (really, no kidding?) at this apartment" he says. Negative is the reply. Sorry. No pizza here. You're hitting the last button, and that's me. No pizza. I tell him look, I don't like to leave you out here in the cold but that's not my pizza, you need to call the phone number they gave you for the customer. I don't want to close the door on you on Christmas eve but...
and that's when the dude grabs the door and says, no, leave it open
I yank the door out of his hand and tell him "no sir I will not" and I close it in his face.
If I HAD grabbed a pistol before I went downstairs I feel I would have pulled it. I'm not Rambo or Lone Wold McQuade but the pizza guy doesn't pull doors open when told to stay outside. That move by the pizza guy was an uncool home invasion maneuver. He's not supposed to grab the door and give instructions! Several lessons learned here.
I should have called down from the window instead of going downstairs. It was dumb to open the door and dumber to have had the opportunity to have a friend along and not taking the opportunity. I will learn from all of this. In fact I just spent ten years in Boston, I do know better than this but here in the suburbs I must have let my guard down
So I wanted to take the time to say: stay safe all, and Merry Christmas
I think "well, I don't need anything. But I'll see what's up" I leave my apt, go down the stairs to the front door
I can see it's just this guy, his hands are full, nobody else there, from the window
"Somebody ordered a pizza (really, no kidding?) at this apartment" he says. Negative is the reply. Sorry. No pizza here. You're hitting the last button, and that's me. No pizza. I tell him look, I don't like to leave you out here in the cold but that's not my pizza, you need to call the phone number they gave you for the customer. I don't want to close the door on you on Christmas eve but...
and that's when the dude grabs the door and says, no, leave it open
I yank the door out of his hand and tell him "no sir I will not" and I close it in his face.
If I HAD grabbed a pistol before I went downstairs I feel I would have pulled it. I'm not Rambo or Lone Wold McQuade but the pizza guy doesn't pull doors open when told to stay outside. That move by the pizza guy was an uncool home invasion maneuver. He's not supposed to grab the door and give instructions! Several lessons learned here.
I should have called down from the window instead of going downstairs. It was dumb to open the door and dumber to have had the opportunity to have a friend along and not taking the opportunity. I will learn from all of this. In fact I just spent ten years in Boston, I do know better than this but here in the suburbs I must have let my guard down
So I wanted to take the time to say: stay safe all, and Merry Christmas