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Here's a "Telemoped" used by "Telepizza" to deliver food.
If you thought being a pizza delivery boy was a bad job in the USA, you should try being one in Spain. As you can see from the above picture, here pizzas are delivered on “motorized pedicycles” (commonly known in the USA as “mopeds”) instead of being delivered in cars. Imagine doing that job in the rain.
You know, for as long as I’ve lived in Spain and as many pizzas as I’ve seen delivered, you would think that this would be something “normal” for me by now… but it’s not. I just can’t help but notice every time I hear the “roaring” sound of a Telepizza moped zigzagging through the busy streets of Burgos at top speed (5 MPH) or whenever I see an unusually large man perched atop an unusually small moped, fulfilling his pizza delivery duty. It’s just so different to me. In the USA, pizzas are always delivered by car.
I suppose it makes more sense to deliver pizzas by moped. After all, as far as gas goes, it’s much more economical. Mopeds can usually arrive a little quicker than cars too because they can (illegally) pass cars and run red lights with ease (something that is done quite frequently by these lunatic moped pizza delivery boys). I don’t really know why we use cars in the USA instead of mopeds — maybe we just care more about the pizza having a “comfortable ride” before it gets eaten.
Leave your thoughts on pizzas and mopeds below.
Hasta luego,
–Chris
http://abroadinspain.com
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