Let's get my cards on the table: I like Domino's Pizza. If there were one company on this Earth that might contribute to my early death, it would be them. But I would go with a lovely barbecue-sauce-and-mozarella-flavoured smile on my face.
I thought, then, it was time to write to the local press in Weymouth and shower them with praise. May contain traces of fiction.
Dear The Dorset EchoI can almost taste that raw mouse pizza now. Om nom nom nom.
Recent letters to your publication have - quite wrongly, in my estimation - decried the lack of welcome and customer service in our seaside town. Let me tell you, then, a tale that tells quite the opposite, and shows humanity is alive and well in Weymouth.
Last week, for bizarre reasons involving a pack of feral cats and an ineptly-installed mail order security system, I found myself trapped inside my own home for two days.
Luckily, on the second day, my paycheck cleared in the bank and I was able to call Domino's Pizza in Weymouth and place an order to alleviate the pangs of hunger running through my cat-ravished body. Within thirty minutes, a van appeared outside my house, and the kindly delivery man rose above-and-beyond the call of duty by posting my tasty, tasty Domino's Meateor with extra bar-b-q sauce through my letterbox, with only minor damage to my meatballs.
Once my raging hunger had been sated, my Domino's rescuer pointed out an open window in my loft room, and suggested I might try to escape my domestic prison via that means of egress. This I did, our hero breaking my thirty-foot headlong fall, suffering what can only be described as horrific injuries to his head, neck, back and legs as the street echoed with the hollow sound of cranium against shattered cranium.
Then I was sick in a hedge.
Luckily for your readers, I managed to take a photograph of what I saw as I plummeted to Earth, which acts a reminder on what one should do if finding yourself in a similar situation (viz: Remember to land on a pizza delivery man).Picking ourselves up, the gentlemen even went so far as to refuse my tip (A post-it note bearing the words "Never eat yellow snow"), preferring to limp back to his car, dragging his useless, shattered left leg behind him, and returning to his duties.
After this episode, in which I spent a further 72 hours huddled and bleeding in my shed, living off rain water and the various helpless rodents tempted in by cold, hardened, tasty, tasty mozzarella left in the bottom of my Domino's pizza box, I defy anyone to say that customer service is dying in our town.
Be lucky.
Albert O'Balsam, Wyke Regis
Not a real letter? Oh yes it is

15 comments:
first again?
My stars...
So, SD have you had many published recently?
& more importantly, have you had any more pizza?
Sorry, it's early. Must be more amusing next time...
Yes, it is a real letter, but was it published?
And is it any wonder Dominoes sponsors The Simpsons?
Book them, mr duck. I don't buy Dominos, but I'd purchase a book of your letters. With garlic bread.
What happened about the car letter? Did they reply?
Mmm, Domino's Pizza...
...oh, sorry, got distracted there. What were you saying again?
Still no reply on the car....
I once tried to thank our local highways agency for a job well done, thinking along the lines of, "People just don't say 'well done' anymore." I was met with such crippling indifference and confusion from the single celled organism on the other end of the line I've decided the best way to deal with these things is to shout angrily at everyone. Awesome tale!
I second a book of letters written. And now I want garlicky pizza, for some reason...
Mmmmm, The Dominos Spicy Brains Pizza to go plz.
And who said the art of letter-writing was dying?
I've gone all Homer-ish:
"Mmmm, donuts..."
On getting free pizza: yas go to the joint and makes yer demands: Pizza or yer life!
Pizzamun, cause he knows he cun, takes yer life and stands all day eating yer pizza!
Domino's! For the love of God! Blech! Icky! Albert needs to find a REAL pizza place.
Iris: I'm trying to get Pizza Hut to open in Weymouth. However, he's still a bit touchy about the violent death of his brother Jabba, and I HAD to go and mention it.
There is no such thing as 'minor damage' when my 'meatballs' are concerned.
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