Wednesday, May 10, 2006

The Plight of the Rich


For those who didn't already know, I'm delivering pizzas in Wilson for the summer before going off to Delaware for grad school. Wilson is a lakeside town with a lot of money, but today I had to deliver to a house that completely redefined what "rich" means to me.

As I pull down their long, perfect driveway, I see a black Jaguar sitting in the driveway turnaround. "Nice," I think, and walk up to the door. A girl in her late 20s comes to the door with a phone and couple bills in her hand. "$27 even," I tell her.

"Do you have change?"

"Yeah, how much do you need?" Keep in mind, it's about five o'clock, so this must be one of my first deliveries. She hands me a crisp $100 bill.

"Uh, I don't have that much change."

"Uh-oh. Hold on a second," and she starts dialing on the phone.

Just then another car starts pulling down the driveway. I don't know a lot about cars, but I know it's a luxury car just by the aura it exudes. "Oh, here he is," the girl says, as if I had known who she was calling.

The car pulls up and parks in the garage, which I was later told also holds a jet-ski and boat. Out gets this grumpy-looking guy in his 40s. He looks annoyed at the girl.

"It's $27," she tells him.

"Why didn't you just give him a 50?" he asks.

The girl looks at me like you do when your parents make a pop culture reference that's wildly out of date, like everybody knows $50 bills went out of style ten years ago. "I don't have $50 bills," she says.

The man pulls out his wallet and pulls out a 20 and a 10 and tells me to keep the change. I beat it out of there and get back to the real world.

The whole incident makes me realize the difficult issues rich people must deal with on a regular basis. Not being able to fit all your expensive sports cars in your garage, people not being able to make change for your huge bills...

P.S. I would never complain that $3 isn't enough of a tip, but I regularly get that much from people in the trailer park a few miles down the road in the other direction, and they don't make me stand there while they flaunt what wealth they have. Just makes you think.

1 Comments:

At 11:44 PM, Blogger Chad DeVoe said...

Hey Man,

Nice blog...keep it updated. I totally got the visual of your Wilson pizza delivery story.

Yours in the fight against idiot America,

Chad.

 

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