[Pazuzu]

Every week I go to the same pizza place once a week, order the same order of 2 pepperoni slices and a soda, pay the same $8.61 with a $10 bill and leave the coins as a tip, sit at the same table if possible, while separating my newspaper to read and setting out 2 napkins. When the plate arrives I cut the tips off the two slices, then enough more to make 4 more small pieces. I then eat said pieces with a fork while reading the newspaper. Then, I read the rest while eating the remaining slice-parts with my hands.


I like pizza from there. I don't go on the same day of the week, and sometimes I don't go at all. I often have a $10 in my pocket, and I like to pay for lunch with cash to keep track of it. I pick that table because it's the smallest one so I'm not taking valuable 4-top tables from other customers, AND it affords a view of the parking lot which seems important since that same parking lot was the site of a murder once while I say facing *away* from the parking lot, and I don't want my back to any future murders...
I cut 6 pieces off and eat with a fork because I know that the pizza takes about that long to cool to "hand hold" temps, and I read the local paper because I like to learn about local stuff. Oh, 2 napkins is normally enough to finish the meal, might as well have them both handy right away.

All of that makes perfect normal sense, unless you only knew me from seeing me do this whole OCD ordeal for lunch. If you only knew me from the pizza place, you'd think I was Rain Man, but in fact I'm just a pragmatist.