From: Rimrunner
Date: 18 Oct 1995

Hi, I'm back, this time with tales of real-life Jedi powers, courtesy
of the fine people of talk.bizarre. Enjoy.

In article <45rnle$i87@hsc.usc.edu>, David Filippi <filippi@hsc.usc.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <45pcim$7vl@earth.alpha.net>,
>Mark Lippert <lippert@earth.execpc.com> wrote:
>>
>>Sure wish I had that Jedi mind trick thing.  That would be great for getting
>>out of speeding tickets.
>
>The other day I ordered a pizza with salad and breadsticks from Domino's.
>They took 75 minutes to get here, which I found rather silly and annoying.
>So when the guy arrived I said to him, "I called up the pizza place.  Because
>the pizza took so long to get here I don't have to pay for it."
>
>Both of these statements were true, although causally unrelated -- the
>girl on the other end of the phone had been rude, saying "The pizza left
>three minutes ago" and hanging up on me.  When I called her again 20 minutes
>later and she said "The pizza left three minutes ago" before hanging up on me,
>I decided I didn't have to pay for the pizza.
>
>The pizza guy said "Well, I could give you three dollars off.."
>
>"No.  Free."  This was the Jedi part.  If you have ever participated in the
>production of a movie,  a) you know how to do this, and b) you know just
>where Lucas came up with the idea.  It has to do with the eyes, but also
>with the will.
>
>He repeated, "No.  Free."  Then he handed me the pizza and fairly RAN away.
>
>On the elevator ride back up I was worried that I'd given in to the dark side.
>Then I opened the bag and found that my bread sticks were missing.
>
>
>dave
>i would have tipped him if he hadn't run off.  it wasn't his fault after all.