Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

  1. No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.

  2. She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.

  3. We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.

  4. No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.

  5. We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn’t an option, having people not believe I’m sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn’t like down her throat or starving her if she won’t eat it.

By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I’m an awful parent and how I’m not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you’ll find someone else to treat like shit.

Anyway, have fun telling me I’m the worst person on Lemmy, just don’t expect a quick reply.

Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.

  • Flying SquidOPEnglish
    105•5 months ago

    And someone already didn’t apparently read it since they told me I should have picked it up myself.

      • Flying SquidOPEnglish
        33•5 months ago

        I didn’t think it was necessary to mention that I can’t drive it home in my car what with the “extremely smell sensitive” part.

        A pizza inside a car tends to have an odor in my experience. As does all other hot food. It’s generally one of the reasons people like hot food.

          • @[email protected]English
            45•5 months ago

            TBH that’s a logic fail on your part.

            In bullet point (1) we have two important statements

            Statement A: “I can’t make the food”

            Followed immediately by the explanation…

            Statement B: “I am dealing with an illness that makes me unable to eat solid foods and extremely sensitive to smells”

            The only way Statements A and B can be related is via the smell. Being unable to EAT solid foods wouldn’t prevent OP from MAKING the food. The only possible explanation is that the sensitivity to smell is what makes them unable.

            That’s, like, really basic reading comprehension skills. 🤷

              • @[email protected]English
                24•5 months ago

                If that were the case then the other statements within bullet 1 are completely irrelevant, and the relevant information has been omitted. That would be a far greater assumption than taking the statements at face value and connecting the information we have into coherent logic

              • @[email protected]English
                7•5 months ago

                Maybe you can’t/won’t read an entire prompt before ejaculating your emotional retort?

                  • @[email protected]English
                    2•5 months ago

                    You choose when/how you replay, if at all.

                    It isn’t anyone else’s responsibility to keep your emotionally charged hot takes and inability to process situational specifics in check.

          • @[email protected]English
            18•5 months ago

            You’re retro-justifying your mistake, dude; when ‘sorry’ is just faster.

            It’s like when you’ve lost the argument and you’re still piping up with “and another thing”.

            Exactly like that, actually.

          • Prison MikeEnglish
            8•5 months ago

            Have you never smelled your car after picking up food? Hell I rarely drive but I’ve done short trips where all I’m doing is picking up food and having it in my car 20 minutes max; even the next evening the smell lingers in my car.

            In fact my wife had to put carbon-based air fresheners in her car because she’d reheat steamed vegetable then eat them in the car during her lunches at work.

            How is this hard to figure out?

          • @[email protected]English
            5•5 months ago

            You’re lucky squiddy here isn’t a mod on this sub or you’d probably already be banned for “trolling” lol

              • @[email protected]English
                8•5 months ago

                I see this guy around all over the place and he’s always getting into slap fights with people over the dumbest shit lol

              • @[email protected]English
                4•5 months ago

                The dude mentioned a medical disability, stated he couldn’t eat solid food or cook and you assume he can drive and then criticize him for delivery? He didn’t spell out that he couldn’t drive but it was pretty obvious if you read the post… Say sorry and move on buddy. You’re in the wrong and look like an incel loser when you continue to double down.