Mario

Tuesday was Mario day (MAR10, get it?). This was a new one to me. It’s a Nintendo-endorsed holiday featuring sales on Nintendo games and stuff. But why should Nintendo “own” this day? What about all the restaurants named Mario around our communities? Shouldn’t they be allowed to participate? We had a carryout-only pizza place near our house growing up called Mario’s.  There were only two women who ever worked there (it was small). We thought they were sisters and maybe they lived upstairs above the restaurant. They probably didn’t need a furnace what with that pizza oven running well into the night. And they got to eat all the pizzas that people never picked up. Pretty sweet gig…

Every day was Mario Day for them I bet. I was often tempted to order a pizza and not pick it up so they’d have more to eat but I never did it.