Gremlin Tale

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found this on a University of Missouri website.  I
hope the author doesn't mind:

Early in my college career, I discovered the joy of
cruising. This extracurricular pursuit added an
average of 750 miles each week to my car?s odometer
(remember gas was cheap then) and earned me the
nickname Cruiser.

Needing to turn some of that mileage into money, I
went to work for Shakespeare?s Pizza. Between the
springs of ?74 and ?75, I delivered 5,000 pies in my
?73 Gremlin (yes, it had an 8-track tape player). And
as far as I know, I still hold the record for
delivering the most pies in eight hours ? 98. That?s
one pie every 4.9 minutes!

Oh, the stories I could tell. There?s the time I
decided to take my dog on deliveries. Figuring it was
more efficient to leave my car running while I carried
pies into dorms, I enlisted my dog to ride shotgun and
guard the undelivered pizzas. What I didn?t count on
was my dog helping himself to a pie!

My favorite story happened one winter?s night. It was
so cold, and the snow was blinding ? not a good time
for my car?s gears to freeze. Because I was the only
delivery person working that night; there was no
choice but to deliver pizza in reverse. My shotgun
rider (person, not dog) kept his door open and head
out as we made our way around campus, backward.
Periodically, he?d look in at me to give directions
and his beard was totally white (and frozen) from the
snow! We didn?t set any delivery records that night,
but hungry students got their Shakespeare?s Pizza. The
biggest challenge was deciding which side of the road
to drive on. 

? Cruisin? Ed Schwitzky, BA ?75, MS ?76

Posted by Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA