It's always very satisfying to remember the funny/quirky/cool things you did as a kid, and then be proud of them today. It's as if it's proof that you have been cool since the days of yore and are not a poseur of today. One of these things I am proud of is my childhood love for pizza.
1. As a 6 year-old, I didn't understand what my dad did at work. He was an engineer. (I still don't understand what he does at work) Anyway, that sounded (still sounds) so boooring to me, so when Natalie asked me at school what my dad's job was, I lied and came up with the most glamorous job I could think of: I told her that my dad was a pizza delivery man for Dominoes. I think she thought it was cool, and being so impressed, went home and told her mom I was lucky because my dad brought home free pizza every night. Then (I don't remember this part but Natalie told me about it) her mom talked to my mom and I guess mentioned it to her, and then my mom told her that my dad was an engineer for some company and did not deliver pizza for Dominoes. boo.
2. One time, around the same age, I was at my grandparents' house and had the most brilliant idea for a book (pieces of printer paper folded and stapled together). It was all about a pizza company called "One Bite Pizza" that delivered pizza boxes with one slice of pizza with the tip bitten off. In short the story went like this: a very hungry man with a mullet (I specifically remember he had a spiky mullet) calls up One Bite Pizza, orders a pizza, opens the door, discovers one slice in a box with a bite taken out, yells "AAAAAAAAAAAAA!", calls One Bite Pizza to complain, talks to a snippy customer service bitch named Gladys (who tells him the bite is their trademark), and then gets a gun and goes to kill Gladys. Complete with funny pencil illustrations. I asked my mom to mail it to me, but she was sure my dad would not want to give it up. I think the violence kind of worried my mom, but I'm pretty sure my dad was really, sincerely impressed and proud of me for this.
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