Why I will NEVER eat at Fuel Pizza again...

What a hilarious night! I'll start this post by saying what a great time I had before I go into my rant. Get ready...it's coming. Seriously.

I went on a "date" with our youth minister's wife tonight. Erin and I met at Target (gotta get the contraband) and then moved on to the movies across the street. We got our tickets for the 7:40 showing of Confessions of a Shopaholic (where apparently Erin had an imaginary friend with her because the ticket worker said "one adult and..." like she saw somebody else there) and realized we had about 50 minutes before the movie actually started. We had a brilliant parking space, so we decided to just walk across to either Moe's or Fuel Pizza to grab a bite to eat. The line at Moe's was wicked long, so we chose Fuel Pizza. We chose POORLY! OMG, people. At 6:55, Erin ordered a slice of pepperoni pizza and a drink. (She was planning on popcorn at the movie...another story altogether.) At 6:57, Stephanie ordered 2 slices of cheese pizza and a drink. The receipt clearly states it...6:57. (bottom left corner)




About 5-7 minutes later, Erin's slice of pepperoni arrived. No food for Steppy. Ok, that's fine. They clearly can't carry food for two people at the same time. Except the food for Steppy didn't come any time soon. I tried to get Erin to eat her food while it was hot, but she was trying to wait until I had something to eat too. A few minutes later, a dude came out of the kitchen and asked if we were waiting on anything else. (Apparently I looked hungry!) I told him about my two slices of pizza and he said he'd be right back. So I waited. Fairly patiently at first. Now would be a good time to mention that we were sitting at a table where we could look through a big window into the kitchen and see the people making the pizzas and the pizzas coming out of the oven and the pizzas being sliced and put on plates, etc. So I waited. And waited. And waited. Pizzas were coming out of the oven left and right, being sliced and served. Still no food for Stephanie. The dude came back out of the kitchen and I actually said out loud, "DUDE! Pizza!" (Ok, I know that was incredibly rude and I really didn't mean for him to hear me.) He said it was coming out of the oven in a minute. Um...it had been like 20 minutes at this point and many many pizzas had come out of the oven. So I try to be patient and wait. Except more pizzas were coming out of the oven and none of them were cheese! So I took to making sad faces at the people in the kitchen through the window. Poor Erin had picked all the pepperoni off of her pizza and was working on picking the cheese off. She was making faces with me too.

Please keep in mind that our movie was starting at 7:40. It was 7:20. And there were no pizzas in the oven. I could see right into it. I was done at that point. So I went up to the front counter and said, "Dude (again, rude, I know, but I was HUNGRY! and going to be late!), I ordered 2 slices of cheese pizza at 6:57. It's the most basic of all pizzas. Am I gonna get that any time soon??" So Smartacus was all, "Yeah, I'll check on that for ya." SERIOUSLY??? Ugh. So I waited some more. And then I saw it. Finally. Could it be??? A cheese pizza making it's way out of the oven. My pizza finally arrived at 7:27. Geez, people.

And I burned my mouth. And then the pizza went all kamikaze on me and jumped in my lap. UGH.

SO...I ate as fast as I could and we left. NEVER TO RETURN.

We got to the movie theater and the lines for snacks were forever long. I went in to grab seats and Erin got in line for popcorn. About 10 minutes later, she appeared at the bottom of the stairs with no popcorn. Apparently the snack people were as slow as the pizza people because she said the lines never moved. Fail.

We watched the movie, mostly without incident. There were annoying children behind them. I resisted the (strong) urge to punch them in the head. At some point, somebody let a sheep in because we heard a definite "Baaa." Followed by loud laughter. The movie was pretty good. Not like the books, though.

After the movie, Erin wanted coffee since she didn't get her popcorn. I remembered the coffee shop downtown and we went there. Closed. Seriously? Then she mentioned Panera. Also closed. So we went to Dunkin Donuts. And had our coffee. And great conversation.

Despite the fact that apparently NOBODY wanted us to have a successful evening, I had a great time! I hope we do it again (sans drama) soon!