# I pit small town busybodies! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932 "2012-09-07T00:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/1 "2012-09-07T00:47:10Z")
I deliver pizzas, and I have had other transportation jobs. I have worked in various types of neighborhoods, and I have to say that small towns have the nosiest ass bastards! I have had people asked me if I had a business permit to deliver pizzas, WTF? I work for a company, I don’t need one you foamy drooling ass-finger-sniffing doofusii! Then you have those who want my full name, “in case” something suspicious goes on. Don’t get me started with old people! Gawd do they have anything better to do than to STARE at me from their window or front door, if I happen to pull over for some reason. I hope they get hit by the casino shuttle that takes them to the slots where they piss away their retirement money! This is my favorite - am I legally documented to work in the US? I was asked that TWICE! Grrrrr! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/2 "2012-09-07T00:50:20Z")
Well, not to be insulting, but, IIRC, you are a 300+ pound butch lesbian. Old ladies are going to stare. The rest of your rant is valid- small towns are full of busybodies, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/3 "2012-09-07T00:55:48Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Well, not to be insulting, but, IIRC, you are a 300+ pound butch lesbian. Old ladies are going to stare. The rest of your rant is valid- small towns are full of busybodies, for sure. Hmmm. I always pictured **Diamonds02** as a slim androgynous person, from previous posts. Who asks pizza delivery people their name or work eligibility? No one, that’s who. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/4 "2012-09-07T01:06:59Z")
Time to go back on your meds. You are unhinged, **diamonds02**. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/5 "2012-09-07T01:09:57Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Time to go back on your meds. You are unhinged, **diamonds02**. I understand that you might have issues with the OP from previous threads, but you are being an asshole here. There’s nothing unhinged about her post here. It seems quite reasonable to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/6 "2012-09-07T01:24:25Z")
Is the OP bonded? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/7 "2012-09-07T01:35:21Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I understand that you might have issues with the OP from previous threads, but you are being an asshole here. There’s nothing unhinged about her post here. It seems quite reasonable to me. I have been saving it up. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/8 "2012-09-07T01:49:13Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > I deliver pizzas… > > I have had people asked me if I had a business permit to deliver pizzas, WTF? > > Then you have those who want my full name, “in case” something suspicious goes on. > This is my favorite - am I legally documented to work in the US? I was asked that TWICE! I don’t understand; _when_ are you being asked these rather inappropriate questions? When you are at the front door waiting to be paid for the pizza? 😕 In what possible context could such questions arise? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/9 "2012-09-07T02:33:41Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Is the OP bonded? Only with proper safewords in place. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/10 "2012-09-07T02:38:35Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Hmmm. I always pictured **Diamonds02** as a slim androgynous person, from previous posts. > > Who asks pizza delivery people their name or work eligibility? No one, that’s who. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > I don’t understand; _when_ are you being asked these rather inappropriate questions? When you are at the front door waiting to be paid for the pizza? 😕 > > In what possible context could such questions arise? $17.95 for this? Say buddy, let’s see your Identification and citizenship? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/11 "2012-09-07T02:42:40Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > $17.95 for this? > > Say buddy, let’s see your Identification and citizenship? No shit. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/12 "2012-09-07T02:49:38Z")
I want to know where she lives, because it sounds like a _hilarious_ place! ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/13 "2012-09-07T05:06:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Hmmm. I always pictured **Diamonds02** as a slim androgynous person, from previous posts. This. Not that I claim to have followed her posts faithfully, but I’ve never seen anything to indicate either obesity or… butchity? ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/14 "2012-09-07T05:44:28Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > This is my favorite - am I legally documented to work in the US? I was asked that TWICE! > > Grrrrr! No, you weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/15 "2012-09-07T05:52:02Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I want to know where she lives, because it sounds like a _hilarious_ place! I am feeling kind of weird now because a lot of what she posts(not the harassing people for kicks stuff) sounds familiar to me, but apparently not to most people. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/16 "2012-09-07T06:12:55Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I don’t understand; _when_ are you being asked these rather inappropriate questions? When you are at the front door waiting to be paid for the pizza? 😕 > > In what possible context could such questions arise? The people wanting my full name, are the people I deliver to. Weird, I know. The other questions are asked by random people in the neighborhood, who flag me down. > [@Silophant](#): > > This. Not that I claim to have followed her posts faithfully, but I’ve never seen anything to indicate either obesity or… butchity? I said I was butchish, myself. But the obesity assumption was weird. Apparently there was something going around that I was big. And I made a joke about it like month ago. > [@grude](#): > > I am feeling kind of weird now because a lot of what she posts(not the harassing people for kicks stuff) sounds familiar to me, but apparently not to most people. 😕 Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/17 "2012-09-07T06:13:15Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I am feeling kind of weird now because a lot of what she posts(not the harassing people for kicks stuff) sounds familiar to me, but apparently not to most people. 😕 Nothing in the OP sounds remotely familiar, and I delivered pizza for a year. Including to a state mental hospital. None of that ever happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![MaltLiquor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@MaltLiquor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaltLiquor)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/18 "2012-09-07T06:14:41Z")
I am posting this because Diamonds02 is my hero. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/19 "2012-09-07T06:26:27Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > Huh? Nevermind. I thought you were implying that you’ve seen my posts somewhere else. But yeah, I’m shocked that a lot of stuff that I post are somehow things that a lot of dopers have never experienced or observed. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932/20 "2012-09-07T06:28:03Z")
> [@MaltLiquor](#): > > I am posting this because Diamonds02 is my hero. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-small-town-busybodies/633932.md?page=2)