We've Got Standards
For the first time at PJP West since opening, I needed to replace the toilet paper. And that seems easy enough, right? Except I literally COULD NOT figure out how to remove the spindle to replace the roll. I actually had to Google how to replace it, only to learn that we needed a bobkey. I was today years old when I learned that some toilet paper dispensers lock to avoid paper theft - and a bobkey is used to lock the paper into the dispenser. We didn’t have one (obviously, since I didn’t even know what one was), so Jeanne and I used a paper clip and figured it out. I’m not sure if we should be proud of ourselves or disappointed by ourselves in this story. This can’t be any more ridiculous than anything we’ve done in the past, but let’s check in:
2021: We were getting ready to leave for Los Angeles to film Crime Scene Kitchen, though we couldn’t tell you that just yet. At any rate, croquembouche is still dead to me.
2020: It was the peak of the pandemic panic, wherein the entire world was in a tailspin and we had no idea what was going to happen to us. Stressful.
2019: A hunk of facade from the overhang at PJP Buttonwood fell off and landed on the sidewalk, prompting a fence of caution tape. Those were the days.
2018: We hosted an Epic Pie Tasting and Honey Gooseberry was the winning flavor. We must have Immediately never followed up on that idea, because I don’t even remember that..
2017: I visited The Pioneer Woman store in Oklahoma. I used to be a super fan, but I think Walmart has overexposed her brand. Does she need a line of active wear available for sale? Probably not.
2016: We went in at 2 am and posted a selfie, wherein we were both wearing lipstick despite our middle of the night baking status. We’ve got our standards.
2015: Jason bought worldpiedomination.com, the very site you are reading this on now. And the previous owners of peggyjeanspies.com let their ownership lapse, so he snatched that up too (thus ending our days of pjpies.com - though we still own it.)
2014: We signed on the purchase of the original equipment at PJP Buttonwood and then it occurred to us that it may not fit through the front door on the April 4th delivery date, just a few weeks before our open date. (It did, obviously, with much finagling. And door removal. And sweating.)
