Awkward Student Interactions

General Information about Item:

  • Verbal Lore, Domino’s Lore
  • Language: English
  • Country of Origin: United States
  • Informant: General Manager’s of Domino’s 
  • Date Collected: 10-31-19
  • Location Collected: Hanover, NH


Informant Data:

Michael was born and raised in central Vermont. After graduating high school, he worked locally in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. He moved around many towns in the area, but he now resides in Upper Royalton. Michael is currently the General Manager of the Hanover Domino’s. He started as an entry level employee but was quickly promoted within months. He has been working at the Hanover Domino’s for around a year and a half. 

Contextual Data: 

These stories serve an important role in the communities of these employees. They are daily situations that all of the employees must deal with and something that bonds the folk group together and makes them distinct. These common stories are shared while working in tight quarters. The General Manager (Michael) shared these stories in a laid back manner as we went during the middle of the day when business was slow. He was delighted that we were interested in stories about his day-to-day life.

Item:

Our research team asked for common stories that all employees know and would discuss around the store. One of the most common stories he would describe are awkward student interactions. The employees would often see students fall asleep on the benches in the store in the later hours of the night. The employees described how they would have to wake these students up to get them to leave, sometimes with little success. Another awkward student interaction they described was when girls would be with boys in the store waiting for pizza flirting. Michael said it was common that the girl would be uninterested in the boy and was simply “in it for the pizza.”

Collectors Information:

Names: Charles Sukin, Peter Pellett, Nick Pellett

University Name: Dartmouth College

Course’s Title: RUSS 013

Instructor’s Name: Victoria Somoff

Term and year: Fall 2019