15th July, 2026.
OK … it’s officially official: my nephew was here, yesterday!
Yes: video has been both edited, and uploaded … !
I hope you’d you’d like to hit ‘Like’ on that: it would be far more appreciated than you think.
Inevitably, we had issues!
Or more issues than we were expecting, let’s put it that way.
Ruth — my sister, and Jude’s mother — had given us some cash: so we could get dinner.
The inevitable pizza from the local branch of Dominos.
They’re usually reliable, fast … and don’t have any technical issues.
Apart from last night: when we were trying to order!
Yes: the order wouldn’t got through.
After repeated attempts: multiple attempts, with multiple browsers.
And after multiple checks with my bank’s online balance checking system.
Jude possibly knows my card number, better than I do.
We still had no pizza, after those multiple attempts: so I had to phone the order in!
Which — as Domino’s only do some discounts, online, but not by phone? — ended up costing me a fiver more than paying online would’ve done.
I’m not happy, let’s put it that way!
Especially when we did a Google search to try and solve the problem.
One of the explanations, albeit an AI generated one, told us that “stores might temporarily turn off online ordering due to understaffing.”
Which had me and Jude looking at each other … and (mentally), saying “That sounds very plausible”.
Was it the case, though?
Had the local Dominos turned off online ordering, because they were understaffed?
I don’t know.
But, yes: the branch being overworked, and understaffed — there was a World Cup game on, after all — and turning off a useful tool in order to make the shift more manageable, sounds credible to me.
That doesn’t make me — or my very hungry nephew — any happier.
I might just have to email them …
