Taking a Night Out

Hello!

A few weeks back, I put in a request with Pear management to “take a night out,” as Mikey so eloquently calls it. While I still haven’t heard back from my superiors on the status of this request, I’ve decided to go ahead and do it anyways. So I’m leaving town this weekend for the first time since we launched this little fruit company. Ironically enough, my last weekend trip was in fact our opening weekend. The stress of all 2 Pear-trips that we had scheduled that weekend was too much for me to handle, so I went to Las Vegas and spent/gambled away not only that weekend’s earnings, but pretty much everything that we’re going to make through December 21, 2012. Phong, the dealer at the high stakes Pai Gow Poker table, loves The Pear and probably misses me.

Anyways, I’m heading to New York City to visit some of my old droogs (Clockwork Orange) from my pre-Pear days. It is sure to be a fun-filled weekend, but I can’t help but feel a little, dare I say, sad to be leaving you all, if even just for the weekend. Here’s why – I’m not exactly sure what will happen in New York this weekend, but I’m sure of what will NOT happen this weekend. Among those things (as you can tell, I’m really into lists and bullet points recently):

- I won’t almost lose a passenger out of a backseat window while she’s vomiting
- I won’t be told by a customer to race the car in front of me, even though that car is actually Dani, and I’m following her to get to the customer’s house
- I won’t stop at Fiori’s on a trip from South Side to Mt. Lebanon , and then have a customer from the back seat feed me slices as I navigate them home
- A customer won’t offer to buy me a drink before I have to designated-drive them home
- I won’t get to hear Mike answer the Pear line by saying “What!? The Pear!? No, no, no, you got it all wrong, see. This is a residence!!!!” (Just kidding, he never did that)
- I won’t get to make up stories to drunk people about where the name “Pear” came from (OK, maybe I will get to do this one)

Come to think of it, never mind. I’m not sad to be leaving at all! Sayonara suckers! Sike, I’m going to miss you all like Brick misses lamp (Anchorman).

But really, have fun this weekend and be good to the rest of my Pear friends out there. See you all on Super Bowl weekend (hint hint – make your reservations now).

Oh yeah – we accept credit cards as a prepayment option now. We’re like a real company. Hooray!

Cheers,

Tony
tony.ciotti@thepearcares.com
http://www.thepearcares.com/