I did it. I successfully ordered delivery on my own. No big event at home but I was quite proud of myself for successfully ordering and getting delivered a pizza and chocolate lava cake from Dominos. The first challenge was figuring out the area code to use when calling since I was just referring to a coupon from pizza Ankur had ordered for me before. This only took me about 20 minutes before I thought to try online - duh, that's what I'd do in the US. And they even have online ordering, but I'm not quite ready for that.
Then I called and got passed around to four people before it was confirmed that they do indeed deliver to my neighborhood. English was definitely the challenge. I know I talk fast, so I was making sure to speak slowly, but I still got passed around. I checked it out online when I was looking for the phone number, but wasn't positive. I live in the Judge's Colony (Bhargathi Enclave) in Dalanwala. Dalanwala was listed, but there was another neighborhood that was specifically listed by colony so I confused myself.
Finally I was able to order my pizza and chocolate lava cake. Dominos has chocolate lava cake here? Crazy! It was alright, not very hot by the time I finished eating my pizza, but still satisfied my chocolate fix.
Oh yeah, the delivery. So I live in a colony and not all the homes have numbers posted on the outside, and by this I mean mine does not. So, I'm sitting in my living room, watching West Brom play Wolves (English Premier League), and listening for a slow going motorcycle. Unfortunately, I heard him a little too late and since mirrors aren't used while driving here he couldn't see me waving at his back. I ended up standing outside for almost another ten minutes waiting and hoping that he was going to loop back around and trying to figure out how I was going to get my pizza if he didn't get here soon.
In the end, I was successful. And pizza has never tasted so good. It was almost as good as The Coop or Cosetta's back home (LA or MN respectively) and that's saying a lot. It may have something to do with my primarily eating Indian food or toast in the five weeks I've been here, but I think it mostly had to do with finally feeling like I'm living here. Sitting in my living room, watching soccer on the tv, and eating delivery. Now this weekend, hopefully figuring out how to get to Rajpur Road. May need some help with that as it sounds like I can't just take one Vikram.
Then I called and got passed around to four people before it was confirmed that they do indeed deliver to my neighborhood. English was definitely the challenge. I know I talk fast, so I was making sure to speak slowly, but I still got passed around. I checked it out online when I was looking for the phone number, but wasn't positive. I live in the Judge's Colony (Bhargathi Enclave) in Dalanwala. Dalanwala was listed, but there was another neighborhood that was specifically listed by colony so I confused myself.
Finally I was able to order my pizza and chocolate lava cake. Dominos has chocolate lava cake here? Crazy! It was alright, not very hot by the time I finished eating my pizza, but still satisfied my chocolate fix.
Oh yeah, the delivery. So I live in a colony and not all the homes have numbers posted on the outside, and by this I mean mine does not. So, I'm sitting in my living room, watching West Brom play Wolves (English Premier League), and listening for a slow going motorcycle. Unfortunately, I heard him a little too late and since mirrors aren't used while driving here he couldn't see me waving at his back. I ended up standing outside for almost another ten minutes waiting and hoping that he was going to loop back around and trying to figure out how I was going to get my pizza if he didn't get here soon.
In the end, I was successful. And pizza has never tasted so good. It was almost as good as The Coop or Cosetta's back home (LA or MN respectively) and that's saying a lot. It may have something to do with my primarily eating Indian food or toast in the five weeks I've been here, but I think it mostly had to do with finally feeling like I'm living here. Sitting in my living room, watching soccer on the tv, and eating delivery. Now this weekend, hopefully figuring out how to get to Rajpur Road. May need some help with that as it sounds like I can't just take one Vikram.
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