My hometown is in the news.
And not in a good way.
Bob Dylan performed this weekend at UMASS Amherst and, hours later, someone wearing a backstage pass walked into a pizza parlor in the center of town and ordered 178 pizzas for Dylan and his crew.
At 1:30 in the morning.
The staff of the pizza place (perhaps eager for the reflected glory from a music legend whose best days are decades in the past) agreed to stay late and make the pizzas.
The man with the backstage pass promised to return and said he would leave a huge tip on top of the $3900 for the pizzas.
This raises a lot of questions.
Such as: when did my hometown decide that a pizza should cost $22?
And why would anyone think that Bob Dylan would have a crew large enough (or hungry enough) to eat 178 pizzas in the middle of the night (or first thing in the morning)?
Do they think that Dylan has an entourage that numbers in the hundreds? (If everyone were to have 3 slices, that would mean nearly 500 people. Even if everyone ate half a pie, that's still 356 people. And if the average is only 2 slices, that's more than 700 people. Doesn't anyone do simple math anymore?)
And more importantly, why would anyone start a job like that without getting at least partial payment in advance?
As a friend of mine used to say, that's the problem with college towns -- everyone's really book-smart and totally lacking in common sense.
"It may be pepperoni, or it may be extra cheese, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."
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2 comments:
Really? His best days are decades in the past?
Forget the pizza debacle! You really believe that?
I think it would be very hard for anyone to ever best what Dylan accomplished from the mid-60s to the mid-70s.
Besides, you know what music snobs kids working in pizza places in college towns can be! :)
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