On a day when cooking is just one task too many the option to order food online may be just the answer. This is the picture, you’ve been building the dog house all day, and the dog has worn out trying to get you to throw a stick. He has worn you out too. 

You’ve hauled your kids to guitar lessons, football, and Kung fu. In between you shopped for groceries and bought another battery for the cordless drill. When you arrive home there is a message on the answering machine from your son’s mathematics teacher to say that due to the lack of homework for the last month there will be a failing grade. 

Your mother-in-law calls to complain that you never visit anymore, and your spouse waves in the back ground that he isn’t home. He is, he’s been home sick all day. He’s been leaning out the window giving you advice on how to build the dog house even though he’s never used a skill saw. 

You’ve taken this one day away from work and on your desk sit two incomplete executive reports due tomorrow. You can’t imagine phoning some twittery “This is my first day!” employee at the pizzeria There’s the ethic restaurant with delicious food but a serious language hurdle. Can’t manage that today. 

So, on-line would be a good idea on this kind of day. Plug in the laptop, go to favorites, of course, and bring up the menu. Click, click, click, get the credit card, and hit send. Get a confirmation. Not a “one moment please”. Presuming your server is not down and your connection is a reasonable speed you are connected quickly. 

But, nothing is perfect. Until sites become more flexible, the really fine details are difficult to communicate. Small town folks have the advantage that the perky person probably knows you. She says, “Hi there, hey I remember, your son hates the mushrooms so bury them in the cheese.” OK, there’s more privacy with the click submit system. Maybe the section for “comments” will “remember” that there’s a large black dog in the yard. It won’t say that he likes running for sticks. 

On the unfortunate message comments side, the program will know that you may have specified “Lower fat only” and won’t allow exceptions without flashing red lights like a blocker for viruses. Even those young in-training kids at the phone-up places would not be so untactful to bring up that you aren’t meant to order the dessert. But you know you will answer the door for delivery and scoop out the evidence. 

There is a risk of hackers. Imagine some hacker nerd out there having free pizza for a whole month before you get a credit card bill. Perhaps he is anonymously sending food to the entire football club. Even if they lost. What would the fellows down at the monastery say if they were sent a triple basket of fries and a box of burgers? Praise be. Hackers could be having a laugh at the delivery delights. Yes, deception can occur with phone-ins as well. In any town or city. But, usually, the opportunity to order food online could be a treat.