mid century
byu/thesitekick incomedyheaven
I remember those chairs, I used to work at Pizza Hut in the mid 80s. It was a busy place for a while but everything changed when one of the managers began to act in ways none of us could understand. There was an oven with a gas leak and after that he seemed to lose himself. He would talk about the perfect pizza every day and nothing else mattered to him. His eyes would drift and his words were strange.
One night we opened for business and he had come in early. We found him covered in dough with sauce smeared across his arms and cheese stuck to his clothes. He said he was ready to become the pizza. Before we could stop him he tried to push himself into the oven. He did not make it.
The owners shut the restaurant down the very next day. They told the public he slipped and fell and the official report said nothing more. A short note ran in the local paper. That was all anyone outside heard. The town knew the truth though. Everyone carried it in silence.