Lord.......you can take me now....I've seen it all.....

9 people total. 4 drinkers.
5 medium pizzas. 1 large pizza.

 

Lightweights!

 

Toppings breakdown? Did you bother getting one just plain cheese?

I've always found, in these instances, one or two toppings max per pizza so no one gets stuck with a slice that has something they absolutely don't want. People can pick stuff off if they need to.

 

large sausage
large hamburger
medium supreme
medium meat lovers
medium pepperoni
medium taco

 

Case of 16 ounce pounders.

 

It may be generational. I was lamenting to a 20-year younger co-worker that I wanted to stop for a soda, but didn't have any cash and she said to use the debit card. I don't like using it for less that about $5, but she has no problem doing that.

I always feel weird using the card to buy something for less than $1, but it's the only choice sometimes.

Another colleague put something like 17 cents on his card when he went to a convenience store with $2 and the soda cost more than he expected.

 

Lots of convenience stores require a $3-$5 minimum purchase to use plastic so they don't get killed on credit card fees for tiny purchases. Conversely, a handful of restaurants here won't take bills larger than a $20 because they're worried about counterfeiting.

 

Who buys that many mediums for a big gang of people? Was this a Weight Watchers meeting or something?

 

People older than me can keep rolling their eyes all they like when I make small purchases with a credit card. I like getting five percent of my money back.

 

One time recently, I pulled into a store out in Podunk with one of my kids because he had to use the bathroom. Clerk wouldn't let him use it unless I bought something.

So I grab a bag of chips, go up to pay, and the guy rings me up. It comes to $4.39, or something like that. I hand him my card. Clerk points to this itty-bitty sign that says a minimum of $5 is needed to use the card. I end up grabbing a candy bar, which was another $1.50. So it came to about $6 just so my kid could take a piss.

I was half tempted either to tell my kid to pee on the floor, or go all D-Fens on the clerk that he wouldn't just let me make the one purchase because he knew the only reason I was buying it was for bathroom access.

 

Beats the hell out of me. My wife texted me the order. That's what I ordered.

 

Now you're making sense.