MY SILLY PIZZA OBSESSION
This is a story of pizza's important role in life events.
During Memorial Day Weekend of 2014, my great friend David Castellucci made me the best man at his Miami wedding at the very last minute, and a big part of being the best man includes giving a speech to more than 300 people at the reception. Weddings are typically the bride's day, but I wanted to give the guests an insight into David's life. So I mentioned in my speech that were law school buddies and we also tried more than 50 St. Louis restaurants, with two-thirds of them pizza places. I went on to mention how much David loves deep-dish pizza. The third and final time I mentioned pizza in the speech was how it landed me my first job in the legal field.
Little did I know that mine and David's pizza trips were leading to anything besides expanding my waistline. I asked guests to travel back with me three months to February 2014 at a job interview I had with the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's office. The head prosecutor and his six assistants sit down at the table. I am a little bit intimidated at this time because of the amount of people in the room. And the first question, "tell us about yourself" had me pretty befuddled because how do you summarize all your years of your life in a pithy statement? I paused for what seemed like forever, until a friendly interviewer asked me, "so do you like pizza?" At this point in the interview, a gigantic smile came to my face because I now knew I could knock this question out of the park. Sharing my love for deep dish, and sharing my top five pizza places helped me get a job that day. It also helped that my interview was right before lunch on a Friday. Thank you pizza for being a great icebreaker in a job interview and great comic relief at a wedding.
During Memorial Day Weekend of 2014, my great friend David Castellucci made me the best man at his Miami wedding at the very last minute, and a big part of being the best man includes giving a speech to more than 300 people at the reception. Weddings are typically the bride's day, but I wanted to give the guests an insight into David's life. So I mentioned in my speech that were law school buddies and we also tried more than 50 St. Louis restaurants, with two-thirds of them pizza places. I went on to mention how much David loves deep-dish pizza. The third and final time I mentioned pizza in the speech was how it landed me my first job in the legal field.
Little did I know that mine and David's pizza trips were leading to anything besides expanding my waistline. I asked guests to travel back with me three months to February 2014 at a job interview I had with the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's office. The head prosecutor and his six assistants sit down at the table. I am a little bit intimidated at this time because of the amount of people in the room. And the first question, "tell us about yourself" had me pretty befuddled because how do you summarize all your years of your life in a pithy statement? I paused for what seemed like forever, until a friendly interviewer asked me, "so do you like pizza?" At this point in the interview, a gigantic smile came to my face because I now knew I could knock this question out of the park. Sharing my love for deep dish, and sharing my top five pizza places helped me get a job that day. It also helped that my interview was right before lunch on a Friday. Thank you pizza for being a great icebreaker in a job interview and great comic relief at a wedding.
"Not only did I mention pizza in the wedding speech
once, twice, but THREE times
thereby making a holy trinity of pizza. Even though some in the crowd were
probably perturbed I wasted their precious time, I delivered a great speech
about David and our weekly adventures to restaurants around Saint Louis
University in our pursuit for great pizza."
However, not every story about pizza in my life is positive. One of the MOST common complaints ex-girlfriends have had against me is that I would only take them to pizza places.
Anyways, I am planning on serving pizza at my wedding some day. Does anyone have any thoughts? Feel free to share your pizza stories by commenting on this blog, and expect me to release a top 10 pizza place every two weeks.
Anyways, I am planning on serving pizza at my wedding some day. Does anyone have any thoughts? Feel free to share your pizza stories by commenting on this blog, and expect me to release a top 10 pizza place every two weeks.
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