No pizza

We went to the Theodore Payne Foundation Nursery today, to buy some plants (they sell native Californian plants, some of which are endangered and which don't need much water) - but that's not what this is about. On the way the boys were hungry, so I went to buy some pizza. I went into Little Caesar's on Crenshaw, and all the staff were on the phone. I waited, and they kept on the phone, ignoring me. Eventually someone got off the phone, and wandered over to the register. They poked at it a bit, and looked in the drawers. Eventually they acknowledged my existence.

I asked if they had any pizzas ready. She sort of looked confused, and said no, and closed the door on the place they keep the ready pizzas. I asked if I could have a pizza, with the complicated selections the boys wanted (involving one quarter black olives, one quarter tomatoes AND black olives, etc). I spent a while explaining it to her - she didn't seem to get it. Eventually she said "We've got no pizza. We've got no money. We've been robbed."

Then two policemen came in. I said I'd return later (which wasn't true, but I didn't want to make her feel bad). As I was leaving I heard her saying "Two black guys ... semi-automatic".