Luke Carbis It’s more complicated than 42.

One of life’s unanswered questions.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while.

I’ve recently got a job at Dominoes.  I think that for me, delivering pizzas (although I do enjoy it), is a bit of a morale killer. I head shrinker. A blow to my ego (I should be a rapper).

And I think that has had an effect of my wanting to post on my blog. That, and the fact that there are only a select few who read it.

So anyway, working at Dominoes, as working in any fast food, retail, or similar position will do, has forced me to ask a question that I just can’t find the answer for.

Why do customers always come in ‘waves’?

Ask anyone in retail or food. It gets busy for a while, then dies down to nothing, then (usually when you least expect it) it’s busy again, followed by a period of quietness.Is there some sort of global sub-conscious that says ’shop here now’, or ‘pizza for dinner tonight’? Is it somehow embedded into the human psyche? Can people telepathically communicate on a sub-conscious level? Or is it something simpler?

Further to this, I have made a very interesting observation, which still requires much more research, but here it is:

Can the desire for pizza (ergo many/any/all things) being location specific?

What do I mean? I mean that it seems to me that each night 75% of my deliveries are to a specific area (sub-suburbs, if you will), and the rest are kind of dispersed elsewhere. Can there possibly be a pizza ‘vibe’ around Buderim Meadows, or is this all just coincidence?

Aah, well, it’s all in fun.