The boys in bow ties are cookin' with gas
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I ordered pizza on Sunday night and it was like the 4th of July at The Safe House in Camps Bay. I got a phone call from the owner of Butlers Pizza, with the promise of a delivery from one of their top drivers. Whilst this kind of fussing and falling over is commonplace, I wasn't sure if this particular level of doting was standard. He went on to say the order was free. I thanked him and suddenly remember that I also wanted a 1.5l Coke and five Magnum ice-creams.

And a fanta.

A tourist allegedly took this pic from La Med on Sunday night
Looking over Camps Bay and Caprice at the fireworks above The Safe House
Magic moments.

Knowing my fussiness for pizza driver on-the-road experience, they thought they'd knock my socks off with "David," a driver coasting along with 6,500 missions to his name. Using only your brain, can you imagine that? He has done 6,500 pizza deliveries, people - what the fuck is that? How do you DO that? You almost have to DECIDE to do that at birth. You'd need a dad like Tiger Woods's dad; someone who decides FOR you that you are going to be great at one specific thing. The dad probably used to order pizza and push it from the front door to the lounge in David's pram. He had a pizza smelling christmas tree hanging from his rearview mirror so David thought cars were MEANT to smell like that. Most kids have pictures of cuddly toys on the wall; David had a Claremont road map. Can you imagine him learning the alphabet as a kid? "A" is for Anchovies, "B" is for Butlerito's.. God, it must have been a fuckhouse.

So anyway, after much fanfare, the pizza arrives with all SORTS of literature about their new vibe. And, I'll be quite honest, it's pretty impressive stuff. In a nutshell, Butlers Pizza have spent a fortune equipping most of their kitchens with gas ovens and have pledged to still deliver pizza's (at great expense to them - (gas is considerably more expensive than electricity)) when the Eskom electricity status hits "RED ALERT," but without electricity. They'll even bring candles for you when they deliver!

Two words: Pro gressive.

The whole thing says "Be a switched on energy hero"
Butlers are trying to turn us into super-heroes.
Just by ordering pizza? Hmm..

The figures show that for every thousand households that order pizza during those times, Cape Town can save over 2 Mega-Watts of peak time power - enough to light over 150,000 of those energy efficient lightbulbs. Quite mean. So basically, you will be able to tell your mates at work that you did the right thing and ordered pizza instead of cooking at home, and, in doing so, did YOUR thing to save electricity. It's genius! The pizza will cheer you up and you can also claim to be "energy wise." They're saying that you'll be a "switched on energy hero!" I must say, I never realised that it was that easy to be an actual HERO!

I like doing good things that turn out good, when it was not my initial intention. Karma doesn't know the difference, either. Like when I drop a sandwich in the kitchen of the Bantry Bay house and some of the crumbs fall through, in-between the floorboards, down to the Combodian kids I have stored underneath. There's nothing I can do about it, but I tell myself that I've done the right thing. Because, indirectly, I've actually fed them, which is good.

Apparently.

I can't wait for the next load-shedding or red alert. I can order pizza, berate a pizza driver, and see if my new UPS backup power system I bought for my computer works. Then I'll tell everyone the next day that I was basically the reason that the power came back sooner that it would have.

It's too easy getting things right the whole time.


Seth Rotherham
Editor
2oceansvibe.com
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