The land before time
2026-07-10 02:42 UTC
Replies (10)
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@tonytins@pawb.social 2026-07-10 03:07
By the end of the century, modern fantasies is just going to be the 90s.
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@decapitae@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-10 03:46
Sometimes it was 31 minutes, and free
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@Pavidus@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 03:52
Something that seems immediately apparent to me is that these folks are not fresh high school students. Adults used to work these jobs.
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@chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 03:11
They also stopped doing the 30-minute thing because they kept getting sued over the wrecks caused by trying to meet the 30-minute deadline.
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@aesthelete@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 05:00
I really liked being a pizza delivery driver pre-GPS. It did require some skill, but you learned quickly about how things work: Is it a complex of some sort (e.g., trailer park, apartment, condo)? Look for a unit map. Evens on one side of the street, odds on the other You learn all of those weird roads that have the same name in two disconnected parts of town It was easily the best “shitty job” I’ve ever had.
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@WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2026-07-10 05:53
I was one of those land pirates, once upon a time- and after a few weeks on the job we didn’t need the paper maps, either.
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@Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2026-07-10 07:37
In some countries it’s still a thing…well without the paper map
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@electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2026-07-11 03:16
Like others have said, we had a big map. One thing I remembered though is how fucking often I would forget somebody’s 2-liter of Pepsi or whatever. I would just stop and buy one on the way, and then later grab one from work and take it home.
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@tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2026-07-11 03:30
And it was incredibly affordable compared to today.
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@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 16:40
and the reason they stopped delivering within 30 minutes was cause it led to reckless driving and many, many, many traffic accidents and losses of life.