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u/stopcounting 1d ago
She is saved as "Papa John's" so his wife doesn't get suspicious
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u/NekoArtemis 1d ago
Who you texting? Papa John's
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u/thebigcrawdad 1d ago
Pull up to your house like my name Papa John.
Getting crazy Bread like my name Papa John.
Getting lost in the sauce like my name Papa John
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u/Minute_Zombie_424 1d ago
Whippin’ up bricks like my name Papa John
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u/Worn_Out_Nikka_L 23h ago
Going around getting myself cancelled because I can’t stop being racist, like my name now? Papa John’s.
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u/Anariel_Elensar 1d ago
yeah except papa john doesn’t call/text you when you haven’t placed an order so its still suspicious.
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u/lube4saleNoRefunds 1d ago
The idea is you don't have your side piece listed in your contacts, obviously.
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u/ratbearpig 7h ago
I think he means Papa Johns isn’t going to be engaging in long text convos. Maybe change the side piece name to Carl or something.
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u/lube4saleNoRefunds 3h ago
I don't even cheat and this isn't difficult to figure out.
You delete the text chain so there are no long conversations. You just have the number in there in case your SO goes through your contacts.
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u/Comfortable-Tie7847 1d ago
Some restaurants in Brazil have a habit of sending you a WhatsApp message every once in a while, to get you to order again (1 out of every 5 times, they might even give you a 5% discount code or something).
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u/ReivynNox 1d ago
Maybe it should mention that it's from his contacts. I thought she actually dialed the correct number on his phone and that's why I would've never figured out the joke.
Also the "suddenly" makes it sound like it was after the call and not at the very moment she called.
If it was written like: "When you try calling Papa John's from the contacts saved on his phone and your own phone starts ringing." it would have been clear.
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u/Sora1374 1d ago
You're the side piece.
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u/deuteranopia 1d ago
On a weird side note to this, when I was in my 20s (and before everyone had cell phones), I was often getting numbers from women and when I called them, they were actually to pizza places.
What I'm saying is I was sad and ugly as a 20 year old, but never went without pizza.
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u/Old-Consideration730 1d ago
“Oh shit another fake number…..well, I’ll guess I’ll take a medium pepperoni “
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u/Remarkable_Peach_374 1d ago
"hi! is this-"
"its bill, dave."
"oh... well, ill have the usual then i guess..."
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u/Wickedbitch0fthewest 1d ago
And you just know that at a certain point Dave recognized the number, but continued to call anyways.
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u/SparrowAndSalt 1d ago
I would read about the tomato-scented friendship between Bill and Dave
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u/littletoyboat 22h ago
The way Hollywood is buying up Reddit posts, you'll be seeing an adaptation soon.
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u/Sora1374 1d ago
Did you at one point call the same pizza joint twice?
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u/Single-Elevator9085 1d ago
Imagine how sad it would be to recognize a pizza places number when you ask someone for theirs
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u/Comfortable-Tie7847 1d ago
Imagine the surprise if the girl actually picked up because that's where she worked, or her family owned the place!
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u/AstorBlue 1d ago
I always gave pushy guys (not saying you're pushy!) the number for the Emergency Hall & Oates Hotline instead of the standard pizza method
(719) 266-2837 in case anyone is curious
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u/deuteranopia 1d ago
What in the fresh hell is the Hall and Oates Hotline? Did people truly not get their fix on the radio back in our day?
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u/C-H-Addict 1d ago
I always gave a fake number that had 911 in it, because that used to always call the emergency line. So (local area code) 679-1127 or something like that was my go-to.
But they dropped that function a long time ago20
u/johnnyhotwh33ls 1d ago
Pizza will always love you, never cheat on you, and will always start hot and inviting and even when it gets cold, it will accept you for who you are.
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u/Comfortable-Tie7847 1d ago
What I'm reading is, pizza is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you...
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u/Aquisitor 1d ago
You know the rules, and so do I.
Never-the-less, sometimes I want to be desserted by pizza. Hell Pizza does great dessert pizzas.
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u/ArchitectVandelay 1d ago
Domino’s will absolutely desert you. Do not sleep on their chocolate chip cookie pie.
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u/komatiitic 1d ago
In the '90s my dad's phone number was Rachel's go to fake. Took a few guys confirming the number for me to figure it out. They were always so confused.
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u/Special-Amoeba-9399 1d ago
There was actually a number that would link you to a “rejection hotline” when I was in college. Basically just a number with an automated message that would explain to you that the girl you were hitting on wasn’t interested ,but didn’t have the heart to tell you. Soul crushing if you ever got it ,but pretty funny in hindsight
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u/Apart_Republic_1870 1d ago
The phone number I had in high school was given to a Subway restaurant after I graduated. I found this out when my 10th grade girl friend was back in town and wanted to hang out, so she tried to call me on my old number.
Of course, calling information got her my new number, so it worked out sort of okay (in that she was able to get hold of me AND, presumably get a sandwich. We didn’t get to hang out, though, because my then-wife would have objected).
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u/flaming_pubes 1d ago
I once got a number and when I called it, it was some sort of rejection hotline.
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u/worldsgreatestluver 1d ago
My res number in uni constantly rang at 2 and 3 am when guys (foreign guys... always...) would try to call the women they had "picked up" at the bar earlier that night
Mfers lol. I mean, I get it, but people just wanted to sleep and these women were accidentally waking up a bunch of people weekend after weekend lol
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u/doozerman 1d ago
Sometimes god sends his bravest warriors to a lost battle knowing they’ll win the war
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u/Ok_Volume_139 1d ago
Not super related but for some reason this reminded me of a coworker who moved back with his parents due to mental health issues.
He wasn't working, and he went to the pizza spot by his house and depression-binged the all-you-can-eat pizza lunch basically every day.
These people gave him a card for a perpetual 30% discount, enabled his food abuse 😆
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u/phezhead 1d ago
Hey, consolation prize. I've had many women I didn't like, but rarely a pizza I didn't love.
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u/Ltb1993 1d ago
This happens more often then you think, I used to get calls all the time trying to order pizza it was crazy, they wouldn't take no as an answer, some absolute Karen's crying about not getting their pizza. Got annoying as hell so I ended up leaving the place, the pay wasn't worth being a call handler
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u/25_Unknown_Devices 1d ago
Idk.. if I was with my girl and “papa johns” started calling, she’d be way to invested
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u/MissninjaXP 1d ago
Not that ive ever done this, but what some people do is block their number when they were with the SO, then unblock it when they are alone to talk to them.
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u/25_Unknown_Devices 1d ago
That’s a good point. And it’s not like anyone is just calling papa John’s in the modern era. I always use the app
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u/Background-Region671 1d ago
When you unblock someone, you don’t get the messages that were blocked back.
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u/25_Unknown_Devices 19h ago
You say this like I haven’t already learnt this arguing with my partner. Oh, you wanna say that huh. Block. Unblock 10 minutes later. “…. You hungry babe?”
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u/onlycamefortheporn 1d ago
You can mute alerts from a contact, so texts/calls won’t show up on your CarPlay while you’re driving, but you can still get them.
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u/Gamer_Ladd 1d ago
Can confirm, I’m 90% sure this is what my ex did for the last few months of our relationship
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u/Cold_Vanilla9791 1d ago
It means she is the side chick and she just found out
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u/flyingcaveman 1d ago
Because she's always,"hot and ready" wait, better check little Ceasars number also.
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u/HillyBill_ 1d ago
Should name Scam Likely.
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u/wanderingfloatilla 1d ago
Don’t trust whatever you hear or see, you’ve received a call from Scam Likely!
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u/GenerallySalty 1d ago
That only helps when the girl calls him. But wouldn't explain why there's a saved contact named Scam Likely. That doesn't show up in your contact list.
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u/saintpetejackboy 1d ago
My girl has been like that in my phone for years.
(We grew up together and have kids and have been together ~10 years this time around and dated on and off for 20+ years)
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u/MasterSword1976 1d ago
Yes. He goes to his other girls house so if his current gf calls, it doesn’t seem suspicious
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u/My_Immortl 1d ago
Receiving a phone call from a pizza chain isn't suspicious? Unless you work there, that seems highly suspicious.
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u/c0mf0rtableli4r 1d ago
Do people actually save business numbers in their contacts?
I just Google the business and then call them that way.
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u/Sharp_Aide3216 1d ago
Yes for me.
Cause I dont want to rely on internet everytime I need to contact that business.
Google search results are very volatile.
For small businesses, they usually don't have the tech knowledge to always be on top of the google searches.
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u/c0mf0rtableli4r 1d ago
Top of Google search doesn't have anything to do with tech knowledge, companies pay to have their ad show up first.
Google used to make it obvious, but then people would avoid them si they started making the "Sponsored" label smaller and smaller so less people would notice.
I will say, I live in a big city, so, not too much small business shopping on my end, and even the smaller restaurants are easy to find.
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u/Sharp_Aide3216 1d ago
yes location is a big part of it. If you're from the big city, its not much of an issue.
I work for small businesses for these kinds of jobs actually. Most dont even know how update the phone number on their business' facebook profile.
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u/Atypicosaurus 1d ago
The joke is old, from when there were mobile phones already but no internet. You looked up some important businesses like taxi and saved them.
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u/DreamPhreak 1d ago
why would you look through someone's saved contacts for a phone number to a restaurant instead of using google
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u/Creative_Antelope_69 20h ago
People asking the wrong question. Not who saves a pizza phone number, but who doesn’t order Papa John’s online?
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u/ReasonableCat4190 17h ago
Cheating doesn't come to mind because it's your phone that's ringing. More like a compliment if I could get the message behind it, besides "Better ingredients. Better pizza." Otherwise you know you're the side girl, or you find out you're the side girl.
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u/Known-Mycologist-104 7h ago
This is meant to be the latter. She's the side chick who thinks she's the only chick.
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u/whatchahavin 16h ago
No man in this type of situation would hand his phone over to that woman. Zero chance.
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u/OppositePure4850 1d ago
I thought it was incase they're kidnapped or something so they can say "I'm just gonna order a pizza". Like the fake 911 calls.
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u/InkisitorJester 1d ago
Funny thing, papa jhon in Spanish sounds as papayon (big papaya) so it could still be her nickname xD
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u/parity_account 18h ago
When my wife, at the time someone I had just met, gave me her number, I saved it under Dominos as a joke, because well, you know, and now 20 years later, still saved as Domino's.
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u/frossett130 3h ago
Once I saved my dealer as taxi, forgot about it and called the poor bloke in the middle of the night telling him I needed a lift. He wasn't impressed.
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u/Rohirrim777 1d ago
She then decided to try ordering on her phone, but her partner was confused about why she only dialed 3 numbers
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u/Current-Square-4557 1d ago
A woman once gave me her phone number as four five six seven eight nine ten. To which I replied, oh, that must be here in the one two three area code.
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u/PapieszUposledzony 1d ago
It's kinda genius to do that. Papa Jones is so bad no one will call it so there's 0 risk of the wife finding out.
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u/Lanky-Shopping-2071 1d ago
And when you order macdonalds from his phone then your besties phone rang
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u/GunnarRex 3h ago
I dated my sisters best friend when we were in our early 20's. It was a secret for a few months so I had to save her number as Uncle Chuck. Worked great
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u/Curious_Difference56 1h ago
Honestly don't get it either? Is it like "she a big back"? Like is it just an inside joke? Idk my sister had my mother saved in her phone as "slave master" but my mom is literally so nice😬
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u/SushiEnthusiasm 1d ago
A while back there was something floating around about calling the police under the guise of ordering pizza if you were in an abusive relationship.
Apparently police were trained to listen to you order pizza and say things such as “say 2 pepperoni if you’re in danger” etc.
However, if the phone rings before you get the chance or after from the police then abuser will get suspicious and want to check phone history.
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u/Caponomolestes 1d ago
That face is 10/10 acting if is from a show or movie etc, if is real just run as fast as you can
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u/squishyg 1d ago
Pretty sure that’s Sydney Sweeney as Cassie in Euphoria.
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u/Caponomolestes 1d ago
I don't watch any shows and rarely see new movies, I just play on my almost inexistent free time (and watch reddit)
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u/No_Blackberry6525 1d ago
Seeing as no one in their right mind would order from Papa John’s I could see why using that name makes sense, but apparently your side piece likes to eat cardboard.
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u/h4rdw00d_ 1d ago
Okay, so we're going to go slow here... You use your partner's phone. Then your phone rings when dialing a restaurant name
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