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Kurt_eh
01-08-2004, 02:52 PM
Ordering pizza in 2015




Subject: Ordering Pizza in 2015

Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your..."
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to order."
Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?"
Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610."
Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Which number are you calling from, sir?"
Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"
Operator: "We're wired into the system, sir."
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas..."
Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."
Customer: "Whaddya mean?"
Operator: "Sir, your medical records indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice."
Customer: "Dang . What do you recommend, then?"
Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Yogurt Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"
Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then. What's the damage?"
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, sir. The 'damage,' as you put it, heh, heh, comes to $49.99."
Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit."
Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here."
Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn."
Customer: "Never mind. Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?
Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out getting the cash, but carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward."
Customer: "How the heck do you know I'm riding a bike?"
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid up, so I just assumed that you'd be using it."
Customer: "@#%/$@&?#!"
Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop."
Customer: (Speechless)
Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"
Customer: "No, nothing. Oh, yeah, don't forget the two free liters of Coke your ad says I get with the pizzas."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics."

divinedaydreams
01-08-2004, 02:57 PM
Ok I don't know if I should laugh or start thinking of ways to become a hermit.

samati75
01-08-2004, 03:01 PM
lol, I'm just going to make a smart-ass poke at the guy on the phone using "eh". But that's great. Did he get his ID number off the UPC symbol tatooed on him? ;)

Antrobus
01-08-2004, 03:25 PM
That scenario may not be that far off.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if health insurance companies didn't start to try and monitor what their insured eat!!

TheBladeRoden
01-08-2004, 04:15 PM
Jane: John, how did you convince them to deliver a 2 inch deep, meat lovers stuffed crust pizza with 4 different kinds of exotic cheese with your diet!?

John: It's not delivery, it's black market pizza!

divinedaydreams
01-08-2004, 05:24 PM
:rollin:

scrape_medic
01-08-2004, 05:31 PM
When I phone up the local Dominos pizza they ask me my phone no. and when I can't make my mind what to order for desert, they tell me what I ordered last time!!!

I think that is bad enough!!!!!

samati75
01-08-2004, 07:04 PM
OOT: My pizza place can't find my house every single time they come over. I won't worry about them quite yet.

AgentSun
01-08-2004, 07:22 PM
yeah mine can't either, and i know precisely where they are...in the time they take to figure out where the frell my house is, i could hop in my car and drive to their place to pick up my pizza! but i don't...why? well, cause there's a reason why i say delivery. i don't wanna go into the cold to get into my cold car.

scrape_medic, dominos has desert??

Clarsax
01-08-2004, 09:46 PM
The senario isn't so far off. In one of the places I've ordered pizza, when I call up all they do is ask my phone number and from that they look me up on thier records where they have my name, my address and what I ordered last time. That's bad enough without all the rest!

fermicat
01-09-2004, 07:36 AM
Originally posted by Antrobus
That scenario may not be that far off.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if health insurance companies didn't start to try and monitor what their insured eat!!

My fiance has mentioned this possibility and worries about the implications of all of the data collecting that is already going on. He refuses to use loyalty cards when grocery shopping because he will not allow his purchasing habits to be tracked, and pays cash for his groceries.

king_elijah
01-09-2004, 07:43 AM
yeah, i work at a dominos pizza in Australia and if you have ordered before all we need is your phone number and we know you address, name, other numbers you ahve used to place orders, what your last order was, what drink you tend to buy, how much you've spent in the last week, month, year.etc. we have quite a lot stored on those lil computers!!!

General
01-09-2004, 12:29 PM
Here's one ole fart that won't be buying any pizza! Guess I'd better get my fill now. :rollin: