I’ve always been too much of a cheapskate curmudgeon to pay for food delivery and I’ve been increasingly baffled by people who pay hundreds of dollars a month to have cold, soggy fast food delivered at an eye watering premium.

I get laziness, I really do. For me, personally, going to pick up food is the lazy option.

You don’t have children, do you? She had the option of Pizza, Jimmy John’s, Chinese or nothing. She said no Jimmy John’s or Chinese.

Edit: I suppose technically I could have used Uber Eats or whatever, but that’s even pricier.

Look man, picky eating is way more complicated than, “just make the kid get over it.”

Trying to force food choices isn’t gonna do anything but give the kid complexes about trying new foods due to the high pressure they were taught to see those experiences as.

I’m pretty much with you on this one. A lot of these people sound like they have terrible boundaries with their children. I get OP’s in a difficult situation, but I don’t get why they’re complaining about spending $30 on pizza when they agreed to pay that before it was even delivered. I’m not saying OP should’ve been like “you will eat what I say or you will go without dinner,” but really, as a parent you can give your child realistic options that don’t require you hiding in the garage for a couple hours. Ham sandwiches don’t smell, lots of foods don’t smell. If they “refuse,” they’re still going to want to eat later when they’re hungrier, and you make the same food choices available.

Also a large deep dish pizza from Jet’s is like $18, and it’s really hard to overstate how much more food and how much better their pizza is. Domino’s is clearly preying on people who don’t know any better or who don’t have any other options.

Not even 5 years ago it would have been maybe $20 here.

In general, people don’t live in Indiana because it’s a great place to live. People live here because it’s affordable. In our case, it’s our elderly parents, but the fact that things used to be cheaper here is another reason we moved back.