On-Highway Pizza Delivery

You’re taking a road trip with your friends from new York down to New Orleans. It will take almost the whole day cruising at 120 on the highway most of the way, but it’s alright. The mid-sized auto you rented has plenty of space and a nice table in the middle so you can play poker. Old fashioned paper cards still feel good in your hands, and that old deck with the colors nearly rubbing off is still holding up strong, even getting better with age. 
Good idea to upgrade for the one with the mini fridge to keep the drinks cold for the whole ride. Cracking open a beer, you sit back and wonder how people used to travel in inconvenient train, or even worse, drive themselves slowly through traffic! Constantly having to focus  on the road for such a long time seems like a nightmare. 

Since you don’t want to kill the pace of the trip, and make it down for mardi gras, dinner is going to be pizza on the road. Using the auto’s console in the table you place your order, and it looks like about half hour for delivery. Not too bad. 

You wish you could 3D-print some doritos or something but hey, they’ll probably come out with a portable version soon enough. For now you just gotta deal with choosing your snacks ahead of time. 

After a while you get a ping that the pizza has arrived. Rolling down the window, you can see  right into the mobile pizza parlour driving alongside you, through the airtight seal it’s created over your window. This one uses all fresh ingredients which is why it took a bit longer than usual, and you can see them being prepared in the back, layers of the pizza falling quickly into place, like a little robotic show. It’s part of the charm. But it’s all over in a few seconds when our pizza slides out of the oven, into a box, and into your open hands and you’re instructed to close the window. 

Hot &  fresh, so nice to get a Brooklyn style pizza, made “the old way” just moments out of the oven. And it’s dinnertime on the road as you make the final stretch through Louisiana. 

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