Pizza Hut Never Delivered to My House

We had to get it ourselves

I grew up in the country just outside the city limits of a small town. Actually, the city limits were at the bottom of the hill of the county road that we lived on.

There was a Pizza Hut just under a mile away from our house. Almost every Sunday evening, my family would order pizza and my dad would go and pick it up.

Because that’s how you ordered take-out. You picked up the phone and called in the order, then you got in your car and drove to the restaurant to pay for it and pick it up.

I thought that was how everybody did it. For years I thought that. (I was a very sheltered child.) I didn’t know there were people who would get into their cars and drive to your house and drop off the delicious food! But alas! Since we lived outside of town, we were never able to take advantage of that wonderful service!

The upside to that fact was that I never got used to having my food delivered. I knew that if I wanted restaurant food, I would have to go out and get it.

This may seem like a trivial point to make. It’s much different from cooking meals myself, (which I also learned to do, with cooking lessons from my grandmother), but in today’s world of automated everything, it was something I had to stop and think, “Do I really want to spend that money and make that trip downtown?”

The thing was, when I was older and moved to a much bigger city, I rarely ordered delivery. I’m pretty sure I only did it once or twice myself, and sometimes when I was at a friend’s house, we would use delivery because they were used to it.

Growing up without it, I got accustomed to going out and getting what I wanted. And now, being back in the area I grew up in, still outside the city limits, I still call and then drive down to pick up my food. It’s come full circle, though there are a couple of restaurants where I place my order online.

I see videos of today’s “influencers” with their long nails and meticulous makeup, talking about different services they use, that I have never heard of, and marvel at how much time and technology have changed. So many young people have grown up being able to tap their phone screen and order just about anything.

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