Avoid the Noid

After all the responses to my last post (0) I felt the pressure to go right back to work. Before I ramble on about a few sports issues, I want to bring up a situation that happened to me a few days ago. I've always struggled with the decision of whether or not to order food when there is horrible weather out. On one hand I feel horrible that anyone has to drive in bad weather for work, on the other hand this is their job to deliver food. So anyway the other night it was one of those horrible storms that only western NY can produce and I get home from work late so we call at Domino's pizza at 6pm they are just around the corner. Domino's is back on their 30minutes thing so needless to say I'm pumped. 7:00 comes around and I have not heard from or seen anyone from Domino's yet. I make my first call. They explain to me that their driver cannot make it up my hill (long pause by me) "There are many ways to get here besides that" Domino's is about five minutes away with completely avoiding the aforementioned hill. (long pause by Domino's rep) "He's not that smart" This comment will come back into play later. They assure me that my pizza will be there shortly. 7:30 has hit and I still have not seen anyone yet. I decide to call back and cancel the order I'm going to go get something else instead. The fourth Domino's employee I've spoke to at this point tells me to speak to the manager before I cancel. I reluctantly agree to this. He says that he will make another pizza and get it out to me asap. He also tells me that if the other driver shows up to tell him whats happening.......will do. Let me tell you at this point I'm thinking that this storm isn't too bad as I'm watching other cars zip up and down the hill. At 7:45 I see a Domino's truck pass by the house going DOWN the hill.......in a truck. At 8:00 I see the same truck pull up and I see the driver walking towards the door with no food (huh.) I ask him if he is delivering here and if he is the second driver. He says yes and goes to get the food. I'm not trying to be cruel here but as he approaches I'm debating of whether or not he is mentally retarded. I explain to him the situation and ask him if he has the remade pizza and he assures me he does. I go to sign, as I used my credit card, and he tells me he doesn't have the slip but he has one from 128 Willard????????????? OK, he tells me hes going to come back with the slip for me to sign and then proceeds to start walking down the street away from his running truck. I'm still not sure what happened to him, did he realize he walked the wrong way, did someone steal his truck, or his is he still wandering in the woods (a possibility because he was a good two houses down) The wife and I are ready to resort to cannibalism at this point. We open the pizza to reveal the last pizza put out during school lunches. At this point I don't care I call Domino's to tell them I received the pizza and that if that guy ever returns don't worry about me signing. We are just about finished eating when the doorbell rings! Its Domino's! Its the manager with the new pizza! I tell him about my conversation with the other driver he apologizes and gives me the other food. I felt like it was an episode of 24, the time was now 8:36. Lets recount 6 Domino's employees (1 lost), 2 pizzas, 2 cinnasticks, 2 diet cokes, and 2 confused customers. Will I order again during bad weather.....more than likely....moving on. Its been a crazy first week of free agency in the NFL. My Vikings made some decent moves. I love the Madieu Williams signing from Cincy. I think the Bernard Berrian signing was needed but did they have to pay him like they were signing Jerry Rice from 1987. This will all be destroyed in my mind if they make the rumored trade with the Bills for JP Lossman. The thought of this makes my brain hurt. Speaking of the Bills they have made some fantastic moves getting Marcus Stroud and Kawika Mitchell. They are also apparently close to getting Marlon Mcree and Ben Troupe. The funny thing is they might have only the third best off season in their own division. The Jets (Jenkins, Woody, Pace, and Faneca) and the Dolphins (Ferguson, Smiley, Torbor, Wilford, and about 5 others) have been frantic at the start. All this and the Patriots losing a lot could make for an interesting division this year, oh wait Moss resigned forget what I just said. If any of you ever read the Sports guy on ESPN.com Page 2 please check out the latest links column, fantastic. I wanted to pass along my personal favorite http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ One last NFL note, I'm not sad about Brett Farve retiring in any way, except that someone in my fantasy league would have taken him way too early. I'm starting to do all my research for my march madness brackets, team pool, and players pools. The conclusion so far a lot of teams capable of reaching the final four. A couple of weeks ago after the NBA trade deadline I picked the Suns to win it all not looking real good right now but I'm sticking by it. The thing I'm wondering is the team that comes out of the West going to have anything left for the Finals. The team that ends up with the one seed in the East is only going to have to play one of the other big three (Clev, Det, Bos) big advantage. With Wrestlemania approaching I have an idea for a match lets see Hank Steinbrenner destroy John Henry in a cage match. I hate John Henry he looks like every other weaselly little Red Sox fan, sorry didn't mean you Slow! It really is time to restore the universe to order I can't live in a Red Sox dynasty world, lets go Yanks..... please. I'll have more thoughts on the baseball season coming up but I'm starting to get hungry, Domino's sounds good.