Thousands of Cleveburg residents ditched work today to take advantage of Papa John’s 23 cent apology for insulting LeBron James and the city.
(no word on what type of apology LBJ has planned for when he ditches Cleveburg for New York City in a couple of years….but that’s a different story for a different time).
In suburban Cleveburg, people stood wrapped in blankets outside a store while LBJ ate shrimp cocktail, received a massage and sweet, tender love to his baby boo in the comforts of his 15,000 square foot mansion.
Waitin in four-hour lines for the right to purchase an under-cooked, overly-fat, sponge-cake-type pizza, most were indignant when confronted with the fact that they were losing valuable wages to save several dollars.
“I did it for the principle of it. The principle of it is he’s (LBJ) not a crybaby and Papa John’s should not have gotten into it,” Jennie Moore, 54, of University Heights, said as she waited for a pepperoni pizza.
Left unsaid was the fact that Papa John’s probably shouldn’t have gotten into the pizza making business, either.
One man, dressed in a blue LBJ “Witness” T-shirt, was willing to wait as long as necessary for the bargain.
“Even though there’s a line, I think it’s pretty cool….Twenty-three cents, you can’t beat it.”
The man went on to say that he was fired from his six-figure investment banking job for taking time off to purchase the 23 cent pizza.
“Doesn’t matter. As I got closer and saw the crowd, I was like, ‘Oh, Boy. This is going to be nuts,’”, he said.
Nuts indeed.
(The Associated Press contributed parts of this article, we made up the rest)
