{"id":12153,"date":"2013-10-01T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/codygrant\/?p=4"},"modified":"2013-10-01T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:14:14","slug":"cold-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/cold-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

How long do you normally wait for a pizza delivery?\u00a0 30 minutes?\u00a0 40?\u00a0 Maybe an hour, tops?<\/p>\n

Last week, my girlfriend and I waited over two hours and twenty minutes<\/b> for a delivery from the Domino’s in Cadillac Square, Downtown.<\/p>\n

I should mention that if you walked from my new apartment in Lafayette Park to this Domino’s, it only takes twenty minutes.\u00a0 Hell, even if you were walking the one mile <\/b>distance and it were covered in shards of glass \u00e0 la Die Hard; I would imagine you could do it in less than two hours and twenty minutes.<\/p>\n

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With all that said, the decision to have our food shuttled by slug brought with it a conversation more thought-provoking than expected.<\/p>\n

With my stomach singing its dulcet tones, I told Cheryl (in this blog I am changing my girlfriend\u2019s name to Cheryl); \u201cI think this is worst thing to happen to me in weeks.\u201d\u00a0 And it was!<\/p>\n

Since becoming a Challenge Detroit fellow, the program has afforded me two things that had been missing from my life: comfort and security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now, I still have bills like everyone else.\u00a0 But for a guy with a degree to go from loading pallets at a hardware store to wearing suits and recruiting high-tech IT consultants, it\u2019s a change!<\/p>\n

It bears mentioning that I was born in Detroit and grew up right on the NW border. \u00a0If I can do it, you can too.<\/p>\n

In any case, I guess that I am trying to say that life is better than ever.\u00a0 I have always worked hard, but now it seems that I work with purpose.\u00a0 With just one month under my belt, I have met hundreds of new people; made valuable connections in the arenas of business and charity, and have been able to finally give back to the city I love without having to worry about my own daily struggles.<\/p>\n

When the worst thing in your life is cold pizza, beautiful is everything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

#livedetroit #workdetroit #playdetroit #givedetroit #leaddetroit<\/p>\n

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And to Domino’s,<\/p>\n

No hard feelings.\u00a0 Let\u2019s move forward.<\/p>\n

#eatdetroit<\/p>\n

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This blog post was contributed by: \u00a0Cody Remington Grant. \u00a0Cody Remington Grant is a UDM alumnus, a former WDET intern and the owner of the best hair out of all the male fellows. \u00a0Email him at cody.grant@challengedetroit.org or connect with him on Twitter\/Instagram: @motorcitycody. \u00a0All Rights Reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n

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