Originally Posted by
aimo
This reminds me of a time I went to the old Pepper's Pizza on Franklin St with three guy friends. The place was packed, the service was WAY behind, and the customers were getting very aggravated. Plus quite a few were intoxicated. It got to the point that when the guy would come out with a pizza and call out the name, any random person was claiming it as his just to get some sort of food. Well, apparently, a sort of ex-football player-looking type realized that someone else had claimed his pizza. He was not happy, and he was also a tad inebriated. He began to cause a scene. He was at the window yelling at the kitchen folks when (no idea what was said) a guy in the back came literally FLYING over the counter and started punching the guy.
My friends and I were sitting just two booths away from the action and I was freaking out. All of a sudden the big guy and his two friends ran out of the restaurant. As we all started to talk about what had just happened, I was saying something like Holy crap! Someone could have gotten really hurt! While the three guys I was with were all saying Yeah, but did you see what happened to the pizza?!?
Apparently, while the two guys were flailing around (where I had focused MY attention), a waiter guy who looked like Wendy from Wendy's hamburgers (we were in Pepper's, after all) was caught in the middle of them trying to get out of the way all while carrying a pizza. I did not see this, but my guy friends all saw the pizza go airborne, land toppings-down on the floor. One of the big guy's friends scooped it up and ran out the door with it. That's when the others followed suit.
I totally missed this b/c I was focused on people getting hurt while the guys were watching the food. Typical.