Trying to order some ‘pizza’ while at a friend of friend’s house one night
A group of us had tumbled back there after a boozy session in the pub, all with the firm intention of acquiring some delicious Columbian cuisine. I only knew one person in the house, with him knowing everyone else thus making me a virtual stranger to the rest of the group, time spent in the pub beforehand aside.

We weren’t having much luck, with the best estimate from the many pizza delivery people we’d called being at least a couple of hours. It was a Saturday night after all, and lots of people wanted pizza.

“Try playing the sympathy card with this next one” I said, as my only friend in the house began ringing yet another contact. “Tell him one of our mum’s has just died or something, and we’re trying to cheer him up a bit”.


How the hell was I to know that one of the guys in the room had lost his mum to cancer just a couple of weeks earlier?

I really wish I was making this up.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 11:09, 1 reply)

Clearly, this story needs more MASSIVE DRUGS.
Or a pizza.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 11:13, closed)

I decided to try and use and tiny bit of subtlety with this one
at least I didn't go down the How I Met Your Mother route and say were trying to get sandwiches.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 11:20, closed)