Almost Mrs. Pizza Pizza

By the spring of 2012, M.O.M. had found her heart mostly mended from the loss of her beloved King.  To be quite honest, I thinks we had all completely forgotten about that temporary lapse in judgement. 

Max was going to a new school and M.O.M. and dad both helped me as far as transportation went.  One afternoon, I had either taken the day off work, or had gotten off work early, and I picked Max up from school myself.  M.O.M. rode along with me. 
After we'd picked up Max, we headed for home.  We had to drive past a building that houses a video rental store and a pizza place.  As we pulled up to the light, M.O.M. suddenly makes an odd sound. 
It was that universal sound that all children make when they are so excited to see something they want, that words seem to fail them. 

In their minds, it may sound completely lucid, like "Oh, mother, I see a pony over near that paddock, I would be ever so grateful if you might be so kind as to arrange for me to ride said pony."  But the way it comes out is.. "Ooooh, ooooooooh! Look a pony!"

M.O.M. hadn't seen a pony.  She huffed out the "Ooooh, ooooooooh!" as she quickly rolled down her window. I frantically looked around to see who the victim might be, and what offense they may have commited.  I couldn't see anything of interest... but then.... my eyes fell upon him and then widened in disbelief. 

Oh dear God, no, not Little Caesar!

He was standing on the street corner, dancing to the music in his head, waving a sign around plugging the $5.00 pizzas that could be found "hot and ready" inside the store.  No one was really paying much attention to him.  But all that was about to change. 

The light changed green just as M.O.M.'s window reached the fully open mark, and she leaned forward sticking her head and shoulders out the window.  I gasped "What are you doing!?"
She didn't answer but I could see it.

Just as the car was directly in front of Mr. Caesar, she pressed the palm of her hand to her lips and threw him the most dramatic, showy blown kiss, I'd ever seen. 

His recation was priceless, he threw down the sign he'd been holding and sprinted after the car with his arms outstretched in front of him in an almost 'Take me with you!"  kind of scene. 

 

I was speechless, but my mind was reeling.  I wondered silently, and shamefully, who is next?

The Domino's Pizza Noid?

 

 

Perhaps Tony the Tiger?

The creepy guy from Jack in the Box? 

Got a little Cap'n in ya?

It was anybody's guess, but anybody would have guessed wrong........