Why Not Order Food Online

On a day when cooking is just one task too many the option to order food online may be just the answer. This is the picture, you've been building the dog house all day, and the dog has worn out trying to get you to throw a stick. He has worn you out too.



You've just taken the kids to basketball, guitar lessons and ballet, shopped in between and picked them up. They picked today to squabble until you yelled. You get home and there's a phone message from a schoolteacher to say that your son has not done his homework for a month and is now failing mathematics.



When the phone rings, it's your dearest mother-in-law who whines that you haven't visited for weeks. She asks if the kids have grown up. You remember them fighting in the back of the car.You wished maybe they had indeed grown up and remind her that they were at her home two weeks ago.Your husband has conveniently vanished when the phone rang. That's the problem with call display.



Today was your one weekday off and you knew that two executive reports await on your desk. You can't imagine, right now, phoning some perky just-in-training employee who hasn't learned the difference between avocado and anchovies. You just can't call that ethnic restaurant with the intensely good food but very little English. Or whatever language you don't speak.



So, on-line would be a good idea on this kind of day. Plug in the laptop, go to favorites, of course, and bring up the menu. Click, click, click, get the credit card, and hit send. Get a confirmation. Not a "one moment please". Presuming your server is not down and your connection is a reasonable speed you are connected quickly.



But, nothing is perfect. Until sites become more flexible, the really fine details are difficult to communicate. Small town folks have the advantage that the perky person probably knows you. She says, "Hi there, hey I remember, your son hates the mushrooms so bury them in the cheese." OK, there's more privacy with the click submit system. Maybe the section for "comments" will "remember" that there's a large black dog in the yard. It won't say that he likes running for sticks.



On the unfortunate message comments side, the program will know that you may have specified "Lower fat only" and won't allow exceptions without flashing red lights like a blocker for viruses. Even those young in-training kids at the phone-up places would not be so untactful to bring up that you aren't meant to order the dessert. But you know you will answer the door for delivery and scoop out the evidence.



What about hackers? They could be eating pizza three times a day for a month before your credit card bill comes in. Or you could be anonymously feeding the local football club, they giving seconds of thanks before diving in. The convent down the street, what if they were sent a triple order of the extra spicy Indian food platter. What could they say? "Ah, praise." Hackers could create havoc, laughing at every delivery. Of course, that can happen with phone in orders too. Even in a small town. But the option to order food online would probably be quick and safe.



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