Delivery Don't for 9/26/09

Today I had one rather unfortunate event happen at work that I feel I must blog about. It is definetly a delivery don't but I also think it is a big general DON'T in general (not just concerning pizza delivery).

Delivery Don't: If you have dogs that like to chase cars, please restrain them when you order pizza. This is for the safety of your precious animal as well as for the safety of individuals in cars.
Last night, I had to deliver to one of our farthest delivery points and this man has a lot of dogs. Two were outside in the rain and running loose when I arrived, one a beautiful Great Pirannese and a beautiful brindle colored pit bull. They happily greeted me at my car door and were so excited. They never jumped on me, didn't play rough, anything like that. Actually, the pit bull scooted on the ground as I walked up to the door and then sat at my feet while I waited for the home owner to answer the door. On my way to leave was when the trouble started.
I got into my car and proceeded to drive off. The big white dog (I will not try to spell it again because I know I screwed up the spelling of that) ran alongside the car, and the pit kept trying to jump in front of the car. I called the homeowner and he came out and played with them for a minute and then went back inside, and the dogs proceeded to chase me (again). As they had a long driveway this took quite a bit to actually make it out of their driveway. When I finally made it to the road the pit jumped in front of my car one last time and then started running alongside the road at full blast.
Then the unfortunate happened. The pit was so busy looking back for me coming up the road that he never noticed that he had run into the main highway until it was too late. I had to call the homeowner to let him know his dog had been hit by another car. I also had to call 911 because the car that hit him went off the road! No one was injured except for the dog. Please don't let this happen to your dog.
So please, if you have dogs, please be respectful of others around you and fence or restrain them. It is for their safety as well as other peoples. That's all I have to say about that.

Total deliveries: 5
Total miles driven: 41
Total tips: 23.00
Total hours worked: 2.5
Approx hourly: $15.75