Kimberly Grabham
27 July 2025, 2:00 AM
For most of us, that's when you either settle in with a beer or head home to raid the freezer for a frozen number.
But for one local woman last Thursday evening, the wait for her $25 pizza proved a bit more explosive than expected.
Staff at the restaurant could tell she'd had a few drinks when she arrived, but took her order anyway – pepperoni pizza, one hour wait due to the dinner rush backlog. Fair enough, she paid up and settled in to wait.
About 40 minutes in – so close to pizza paradise, yet so far – patience apparently ran thin.
The woman returned to the counter with some choice words about the service, and things escalated from there.
In what can only be described as a moment of spectacular poor judgement, she grabbed two beer bottles from the counter.
One got smashed on the bar, the other hit the deck. Staff, no doubt wondering if this was some new extreme form of restaurant criticism, refunded her $25.
But the drama wasn't over. The woman then insisted she'd actually paid $37, leading to further heated discussion with staff who were probably just trying to get through their Thursday night shift without any more flying glassware.
Police were called, and by the time they arrived, she'd left the scene.
Her partner, displaying the kind of community spirit that keeps small towns running, came in to apologise to staff and paid for the broken bottles. You've got to respect someone who cleans up after their other half's pizza-related meltdown.
When police caught up with the woman at home later, she apparently wasn't any more ready to chat calmly, talking over officers and generally not making their evening any easier either.
The upshot? One infringement notice for offensive behaviour, some cleanup at the restaurant, and presumably still no pepperoni pizza for dinner.
It's a reminder that we've all had those moments when hunger meets frustration and things don't go quite to plan.
The difference is most of us manage to keep the glassware intact while we wait for our dinner.
The restaurant staff, showing admirable restraint throughout what must have been a bewildering evening, got back to serving customers.
Because that's what you do in a small town – you clean up the mess, fix what's broken, and get on with the job.
Though they might be keeping the beer bottles a bit further from the counter next time someone's waiting for their pizza.
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