Two dudes were talking Summer jobs on the bus platform one guy said he delivered pizzas and had heard of someone who was held up and dropped his pizza and ran and the other guy said they're supposed to do that and not have any money on them either but the first guy said he had heard if a guy who got held up and told the crook to take the pizza but the crook wanted cash and didn't believe the delivery boy and gave him the shank the second guy said he wouldn't deliver pizza for two reasons first because it was too much like IT you get dispatched and the bosses have always got you on the end of the phone and he preferred independence and freedom and smokes second because it's dangerous even though he couldn't care less about sketchy back alleys or shivs or big tips he said he didn't want to mess with dudes who were crazier than he was apparently he had the same policy about girls and sex.

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