Enjoy Your Pizza While It's Hot

Television advertising has reached yet another low with a Pizza Hut spot that shows a pizza delivery boy at the door of a customer's house. The man pays for his three pizzas, closes his front door, and lets out an ecstatic whoop. "Honey," he calls to his wife, "the pizza boy made a mistake again!" It's the "again" that really kills me, like this jerk is making a habit of ripping off the poor kid. As the man and his family wolf down their pizza, a voiceover explains that indeed the price was right, it's a special deal, but nothing by now can mitigate the message going out to the nation's children: it's not only okay to stiff the pizza guy, it's to be desired and celebrated, and therefore it's okay to stiff anybody. It's a dog cheat dog world we live in, folks, get with the program, and it's being pounded into us from the very top. So it should come as no surprise that government, in cahoots with big business, gets away with one giant scam after another while people rejoice about pulling off what they think is a con on the poor pizza kid.