Pizza Panic

Eating Pizza On the Bus and Other Extreme Sports

Dear my beloved Readers (all 12 of them),

This past week I have twice experienced a situation that brings up a great concern. It all started last Saturday on the way back from a trip with the church’s youth group. For our dinner we decided that we would have pizza and that we would eat it on the bus to save time. Bad idea. The way the process worked is that a person would go to the back of the bus with several pizza boxes filled with a variety of different pizza flavors. This poor soul would then attempt to journey to the front of the bus serving each impatient youth two slices of their choice of pizza that were placed into the youth hands because we had no plates or even napkins. While the serving process was going on, the bus was traveling up and down an icy mountain road that it could barely make it up on the inclines and hardly slow down on the declines. Now for the worst part, seconds. If someone wanted seconds (everyone), we had to go up to the front of the bus and get it ourselves. Long story short: After a few youth and more disappointingly, pizzas, fell to the floor of the bus the poor waiter had to serve us once again.

The second incident occurred just yesterday on the way back from a field trip. This situation was completely different but equally as frightening. After a long and hunger inducing day at the Virginia State Capitol, our class sat on the bus anxiously waiting for their pizza. As feet tapped and hands twitched the pizza was finally brought onto the bus. The smell devoured the old air that was already on the bus. I was first struck with fear when I turned around to see the expressions on my friends faces. Tongues were having reunions with their lips and the others had lust in their eyes. This was not good. The idea of the teachers was apparently to drop a box of pizza off at every other row, tell them to get only 2 slices, and then scramble to the front of the bus as fast as they could. The first box was being placed in the lap of the student in the back row. Before it even touched down several hands were desperately searching for the opening. Quickly the other boxes were dispersed throughout the bus. The only flavor was cheese but these students would have eaten brick pizza had it been dropped before them. After several brief moments of sheer panic the aftermath became apparent. All that was left were Shredded boxes, mangled pizzas, and satisfied monsters.

I am glad my friends aren’t cannibals.



In today’s society money drives our schedules. We always want to get the most out of what we pay. From this concept many trips involve an eat on the go system. With a family who fits in a minivan the solution is simple, a drive through. But how can you feed a busload of teenagers in a civil manner while on the go? Does the answer lie in the type of food? Is it in the way the food is served? I believe pizza is the best food choice it is cheap and liked by most everybody. The issue with pizza though, is being able to serve everybody efficiently. First of all make sure that you have plates and napkins. Serving is the more difficult part. The most efficient way I could think to serve the pizza is to ask the pizza place to slice the pizza extra well or do it your self and the serve the pizza to the students, waiter style, with a spatula and two servers. This is my idea but there must be better ones out there.

Yours in concern, me

Banana Phone



The Banana Phone

Well, here it is, my first blog post. Today at lunch my friends and I developed a great new way to engage other people in the lunch room into a conversation with you or your group of friends. All that you need is a banana phone. To use a banana phone simply hold any banana up to your head like an ordinary home phone. Pretend like you are talking to someone, preferably someone very important. Now is the part where you choose a victim. Look around for someone you know that looks a little lonely or that is with another group that you would like to talk to. Call out there name and tell them that they have got a phone call. Once you hand them the banana phone you will have created instantaneous interaction between your freinds and the friends of the victim therefore uniting the two groups. It may be awkward,especially if you are not the "talk to your food" type of person, but it will definitly break the ice.

Lunch is just about the only time you have during school to freely talk to your friends. Take advantage of the time you have during lunch to talk with your friends, make weekend or after school plans with them, do homework with them, or make some new ones. You cannot make it through life without your friends and mealtimes are the best time to make and strengthen them. Don't let your lunch go to waste, socialize, and hey if you ever need help to break the ice, just give them a call, on your banana phone.