Nick Bare

It was the best.

The pizza hut on a weekday night

while I was in school, or a weekend evening, jam-packed, every table filled with families, busy, loud, energetic.

I remember we would show up and there was this program in our school, I believe it was called Book It,

So if you read a book either that week or month in school, you would get a Pizza Hut bookie coupon and you could redeem it for a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut.

So when we would get these tickets, our family would take us to Pizza Hut and we'd get our own personal pan pizzas.

So we go to Pizza Hut and it was in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

It's no longer there.

It's now a bank, I believe.

We'd walk in and just families everywhere, dim lit.

And I'd walk over to the jukebox as my family was going to our table that we got assigned to, seated at.

And I would put money in the jukebox and I'd play two songs every time.

I would play Creed, My Sacrifice.

And I'd play Will Smith, Getting Jiggy With It.

Those are the two songs that I would play every time we went to Pizza Hut.

My family would sit down.

If we had bookie coupons, me and Preston would get our own personal pan pizzas.

And then my mom and dad would get a big pizza.

And we'd go to the salad bar and get breadsticks, the best breadsticks.

I just remember this salad bar, just loading my salad up with, I don't know why I remember this, ranch dressing and sunflower seeds.