# I pit you, the general public. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2013, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991 "2013-03-26T09:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/21 "2013-03-26T13:56:54Z")
Harder for me to enjoy because I recognize the rage that inspired it. It won’t abate until you change jobs, which I humbly suggest you make plans to do as soon as you can. Perhaps not the way I did— from pizza to tech support— unless you’re a big fan of frying-pan-into-fire irony. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/22 "2013-03-26T14:11:26Z")
Why are you oppressing the otherly-valued? Can’t be livin’ white like some kinda Oreo (:p) > [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > I pit you, person who orders pizza and wonders just who in the hell it could possibly be twenty minutes later, knocking on your door. And if only you had some way of knowing who it could be, like perhaps that peephole in your front door, or perhaps the big strip of glass right next to it called a window, or maybe that even bigger panel of glass that takes up the entire wall of your kitchen. I believe that’s called a “bay window”. You might use one of those fancy ass devices instead of bleating like a fucking billy goat “WHO IT IS”. Hey, it could have been that gang banger he dissed, com back with his homies to pop a cap in his ass. You’d be careful about going too close to the door too if you lived in the 'hood. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/23 "2013-03-26T14:11:33Z")
What an enjoyable pitting! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/24 "2013-03-26T14:37:15Z")
/applauds I hear you. I learned to hate people when I worked at K-Mart in high school. Every day was a new lesson in awe inspiring self-importance, breathtaking arrogance, and weapons grade stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/25 "2013-03-26T14:46:18Z")
Well done! We make it a point to over-tip the pizza guy whenever we order one. Just to make up the karma points other losers take away. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/26 "2013-03-26T14:50:55Z")
**Askthepizzaguy** , that was one of the best-written rants I’ve ever read. Well done. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/27 "2013-03-26T15:00:08Z")
Aw, did somebody not get a tip? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/28 "2013-03-26T15:14:49Z")
Holy cow! Two dozen posts and no one has counter-pitted about delivery people expecting tips? Oh wait. It’s too early for the offenderandi to be expected to get out of bed. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/29 "2013-03-26T15:22:32Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > A tip for the delivery guy… work for a store in a better area. The one you’re in sucks ass. A lot of us are appreciative and treat our delivery people very well. > > Good luck. We would like to think that bad customers were in a single socioeconomic class but this is not the case. The cretins described in the OP exist in nice areas as well as bad ones. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/30 "2013-03-26T15:40:48Z")
Bravo, **Askthepizzaguy** , bravo! One of the most well-delivered rants I have read in quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![AnthonyElite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@AnthonyElite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnthonyElite)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/31 "2013-03-26T15:44:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Aw, did somebody not get a tip? I hope someone gives you a brain and you are stuck living the rest of your lift regretting all the stupid things you have said. In fact, come here, I’ll brain you. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/32 "2013-03-26T15:54:52Z")
> [@AnthonyElite](#): > > I hope someone gives you a brain and you are stuck living the rest of your lift regretting all the stupid things you have said. I’m pretty sure he was joking. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/33 "2013-03-26T16:03:20Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > We would like to think that bad customers were in a single socioeconomic class but this is not the case. The cretins described in the OP exist in nice areas as well as bad ones. While this is true, it was definitely more frustrating (and dangerous) to deliver to “ghetto” neighborhoods than middle-class neighborhoods and up. My experience was that there was a sort of upper-middle-class “sweet spot,” and when delivering to multi-million-dollar country club homes you were paradoxically more likely to be stiffed or undertipped by stingy rich douchebags, their airhead trophy wives or (worst of all) their chubby little spoiled brats listlessly presenting mommy or daddy’s check written out to the penny. The best tippers tended to be service workers themselves, who generally didn’t live in the swankiest of digs. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/34 "2013-03-26T16:17:51Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m pretty sure he was joking. Not entirely. I delivered pizza for a year when I was in college. It’s not anybody’s dream job, but I can imagine worse ones, too. Had a couple pizzas stolen out of my car once. I even remember one evening it had snowed, and there was a hill I wasn’t sure I’d be able to drive back up so I walked the last hundred yards. No tip. Some people don’t tip, and that kinda sucks. Some are very generous and that helps make up for the ones who don’t. I just don’t think it’s worth the level of vitriol in the OP. For a pitting of “the general public”, with allegations of anti-social, unhygienic, or downright illegal behavior, it mostly seems to boil down to **Askthepizzaguy** not getting a couple bucks for his trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/35 "2013-03-26T16:29:00Z")
I liked this line: > [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > I’m talking about people that have set up a permanent camp just before that first slope on the bell curve. And I was with you until the cracks at fat women and “ghetto trash.” ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/36 "2013-03-26T16:37:36Z")
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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/37 "2013-03-26T16:41:49Z")
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**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/38 "2013-03-26T16:44:35Z")
As someone who worked in the retail and service industry for 15 years … I fully support this pitting. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/39 "2013-03-26T16:49:03Z")
What is a delivery guy allowed to do in the case of the guy who basically refused to pay? I assume you ask before you hand over the pizzas, but do you just take them back? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991/40 "2013-03-26T16:51:03Z")
Wow. I am in awe. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Not entirely. > > I delivered pizza for a year when I was in college. It’s not anybody’s dream job, but I can imagine worse ones, too. Had a couple pizzas stolen out of my car once. I even remember one evening it had snowed, and there was a hill I wasn’t sure I’d be able to drive back up so I walked the last hundred yards. No tip. > > Some people don’t tip, and that kinda sucks. Some are very generous and that helps make up for the ones who don’t. I just don’t think it’s worth the level of vitriol in the OP. For a pitting of “the general public”, with allegations of anti-social, unhygienic, or downright illegal behavior, it mostly seems to boil down to **Askthepizzaguy** not getting a couple bucks for his trouble. Jesus, who pissed on your pizza? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991.md?page=3)