All my life (at least my adult life) I have been sort of obsessed with
the concept of the “win ____ for ___” deals.
Like, “Win free coffee for a year!” or “Win free fried chicken for
life!” or “Win free movies for a year!”.
Like, the “fill in the blanks” don’t even really matter to me, it is
just the CONCEPT of being granted SOMETHING, anything really*, for a specified
amount of time that seems magical to me!!
So when I saw an announcement last night that a new pizza place was
opening up in our neighborhood, and they were giving the first ten people in
line FREE PIZZA FOR A YEAR… Yeah, you
could say I got a little excited…
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| This is the place - 1000 Degrees Pizza! |
And that is where a KINDNESS ACTIVIST stepped in - my partner David!! He is not
as enamored of the “free ___ for ___” deals as I am, but he is quite fond of me,
so he said HE OFFERED TO DO IT, HE VOLUNTEERED AS TRIBUTE TO STAND IN
LINE!
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| Always a Gallant, never a Goofus, that's David |
Understand – David has been working a lot lately. He has been super busy, and he has today OFF.
His only commitment today is to wait for a city inspector to come by and
(hopefully) give us the thumbs up on a recent project. So David could
have slept in. But no, he chose to be
uber kind and grant my dream of “free ___ for ____”. He got in line at the pizza place at 8:00 am
and settled in as number 9!!! Remember,
the 1st TEN people got free pizza for a year – MY MAN WAS NUMBER
9!!!!
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| Some of the line!! Almost time to open up! The guy with the folded chair was right behind David, so all of the people behind him are there for ONE free pizza, not the infamous "FREE PIZZA FOR A YEAR"! |
He got to know his line-mates, who included a couple with what seemed
like a very new baby, the guy in position number 1 who got there at 5:15 am
(man must love him some pizza!), a man with his teenage son who was cutting
classes to score pizza (and, I am sure, spend quality time with Dad, which is
cool), and others. The funky donut shop
nearby handed out free donuts to the waiters (thanks Sugar Shack!). I rushed down and delivered a sweater (it was
breezy), coffee, and a bagel.
And David waited.
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| Patiently waiting |
And SCORED!!! Yes
siree folks, dreams do come true. David
is the proud owner of FREE PIZZA FOR A YEAR!
He has 52 shiny coupons, each one good for a pizza (coupon value not to
exceed $9.95). Isn’t that
amazing???? I am over the moon that he
was kind enough to wake up early and give up his morning for me. Heck, we almost never even EAT pizza, and
when we do, we make it ourselves using Trader Joe’s dough! Hahahaha.
But like I mentioned earlier, this whole quest isn’t about whatever
fills in the blank (in this case, pizza), it is about a FULFILLING A DREAM!
David – you, my dear, are a Kindness Activist. Not many partners would be willing to spend 3
hours patiently waiting for pizza. I adore
you.
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| The proud new owner with a mad rush!! |
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| David's free pizza getting sauced |
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| Beautiful view of the line - making pies |
And for the rest of you – if you live in the DC area, check out 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza
on the Pike! It is at 3400 Columbia
Pike, Arlington, VA. If you “like” them
on Facebook or “follow” them on Twitter, you can get a FREE 10” pizza today (Wednesday October 5, 2016). They are open until 10:00 PM. David brought a pizza home and it was
yummy!!! You choose your crust, sauce, cheese, meats,
and veggies (they have cool stuff, too, like FETA, sundried tomatoes, chopped
garlic…). A 10” pizza was plenty big
enough for the 2 of us. I am looking at the menu and see lots of
pizzas I want to try – the Buffalo Chicken, the Trenton Tomato, the Smokey
Pollo… I guess I have 52 free pizzas in
my future so I can mix it up!
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| FREE PIZZA FOR A YEAR!!!! |
Kindness Activists RULE.
*footnote from paragraph one: I
guess “free stale baguettes” or “free hangnails” would not be things I would be
thrilled about…
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| A man and his pizza |
P.S. - the inspector just came and gave our new egress window a green light, and David told him, "Hey, you know what, there is FREE PIZZA today on Columbia Pike..." and it turns out he had just inspected the restaurant!
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| WE PASSED!!!! |
P.P.S. - I read this blog entry to David, and he said, "So where is my Kindness Activist button???". Not to worry, I hooked him up with one.
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| PIZZZZZZA!!!!! |
Yeah!!!! I was Davids neight or in line.. with my son. Nice blog article. Always cool to hear good deeds and freeeeeee pizzzzaa. See you around 1000 degrees
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA - YES, SEE YOU AT 1000 DEGREES! It was such a cool, fun opening. I wish them the best of luck on the Pike. David brought home a really yummy pizza!
DeleteWonderful. There are two ways to play this - you could sell some of them for 5 bucks or you could pay it forward and if you go there sometime could hand them to some people, or you could offer a few to a charity auction or something. Anyway, way to go!!!! Betsy
ReplyDeleteWe won't SELL any!! No way. I was already imagining treating some homeless people to pizza - "What do you like on your pie, sir??" then returning with a piping hot made to order pizza! :)
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