Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

  1. No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.

  2. She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.

  3. We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.

  4. No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.

  5. We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn’t an option, having people not believe I’m sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn’t like down her throat or starving her if she won’t eat it.

By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I’m an awful parent and how I’m not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you’ll find someone else to treat like shit.

Anyway, have fun telling me I’m the worst person on Lemmy, just don’t expect a quick reply.

Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.

  • Flying SquidOPEnglish
    3•5 months ago

    I could have if I were able to take the smell of pizza without having to stop the car to heave every few blocks.

    • @scottywhEnglish
      0•5 months ago

      That sounds debilitating (and completely made up).

      • Flying SquidOPEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        I guess I made up all the posts I made about it in Casual Conversation you’re free to look up, including all the ones I posted while I was at the Mayo Clinic.

        It’s been a long con going on since December of 2022.

        After all, nothing on the internet is true.

        Here you go, here’s a link where I made up being at the Mayo Clinic: https://lemmy.world/post/13867999

        Here’s a link on another forum where I completely made up having my gall bladder removed and how that didn’t work: https://forums.mst3k.com/t/whats-your-problem-a-thread-for-griping-part-2-part-1/28111/2520?u=flyingsquid

        I’m happy to show you other examples of me completely making this up.

        Edit: sorry, you don’t get to see my medical records, but I can probably arrange a video chat with one of my doctors if you’d like. Of course, that will probably just a fake doctor that I’m completely making up.

        Edit 2: Check out my amazing Photoshop skills!

    • @DkarmaEnglish
      -2•5 months ago

      They make large Ziploc bags and windows and trunks, bruh.

      • Flying SquidOPEnglish
        4•5 months ago

        Do they make them for people who go into pizza places that smell like cooked pizza? Do they make them for me while I put it in the Ziplock bag that’s pizza box sized, something I’ve never seen? Also, that would cost me even more money, so why would I do that?

        Also, I can tell you from experience as someone extremely smell-sensitive- you can still smell food through a Ziplock if the smell is strong like the smell of pizza.

        • LeadersAtWorkEnglish
          -1•5 months ago

          Dude, stop getting defensive. Most people aren’t trying to directly belittle you, they’re offering suggestions. It’s okay to take them at pace, my dude. You are allowed to say “I wasn’t able to pick it up due to some long term complications. Man though, dat price. Woo.”

          Some serious and not serious suggestions: You could call to order and pay over the phone and then request someone bring it out and place it in the trunk. You could put a couple masks on which will filter a decent portion of the smell. Walk backwards into the wind while carrying it. If your daughter is old enough and you trust her, perhaps she could have gotten it.

          There are options. You posted this to point out and complain about the pricing, then get defensive when others point out how to make it cheaper. Most of us are reasonably sure you didn’t apply a coupon, for instance. Did you consider calling and asking if they could wrap the box in plastic wrap to mostly eliminate the smell, and apologize while explaining why? All we got is “Pizza smell too strong. Daughter picky. So pricy.” We get you have an issue and that is shitty though like of course people will offer ways to deal.

          That said, I am sorry you’re going through a difficult time. It’s clear we aren’t aware of everything you’ve had to give up. I hope it gets better.

          • Flying SquidOPEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            Walk backwards into the wind while carrying it.

            And you’re asking why I’m getting defensive when you think this is a legitimate suggestion?

            Maybe just accept that carryout wasn’t an option.

            • LeadersAtWorkEnglish
              -1•5 months ago

              I did say “some serious and not serious suggestions”. :P