There's a story in the news today about a pizza woman who saved the life of her customer, because the customer, deviating from a three year stretch of DAILY thin crust pepperoni pizza deliveries, had not ordered any for a few days. The pizza delivery woman got nervous, and went to the house. When there was no response she called the police who entered the home and found the 82 year old peperoni lover on the floor. She had fallen three days before and could not get to the phone.
There are potentially a lot of humorous elements to take out of this story, but I am struck by one very troubling thing.
The only person in the world who seemed to worry about not hearing from this 82 year old woman for three days, was her pizza deliverer.
Even if she had no children, how sad to live a life where three days go by and no one else notices. She obviously wasn't a woman who traveled, since she ordered this pizza everyday for three years straight. So where were her friends, siblings, nieces or nephews, NEIGHBORS? I get that Tennessee can be very rural, but Memphis?
It sounds so sad to me.
2 comments:
I wonder if that is why the woman ordered pizza everyday for three years from the same place. They would be bound to notice her (or lack of her order)
Mmmmm...pizza...
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