Crazy as it may sound, I think your Mom REALLY wants Pizza Hut this Mother’s Day… read on for my rant.

So I was checking up on my email earlier and the subject line from a Pizza Hut email caught my eye.  Here’s the email:

“Surprise Mom with Tuscani Pasta Dinner – Only $11.99”

 Pizza Hut for Mothers Day

Now, I hate to be critical, but I have a few problems with this.  “Pasta Dinner”… does that really ring “Happy Mother’s Day” to you?  I doubt it.  Put yourself in your mom’s shoes for a minute.  I really think moms around the World deserve more than a foil pan full of crappy pasta for everything they do.

“But now mom doesn’t have to cook dinner!” you retort?  True, but instead why don’t you make dinner for her?  I can promise you that would mean a lot more to her than some pre-processed, microwaved, nonnutritious excuse for a meal.

“But it comes with breadsticks!” you whine?  Take another look.  The ad reads “Feeds 4 and comes with 5 breadsticks.”  Ohhhh, they know what they’re doing here.  Four: the average family size – two parents, two kids.  Five: the number of family members, plus one.  That means there’s an extra breadstick involved.  Now unless you live in some crazy bizarro World where the kids get along and split the leftovers evenly, this awkward situation is going to lend to a heated argument over who gets the extra breadstick.  There will be tears.  Now mom can add an extra large headache to her pasta-induced stomach ache.

I really want to meet the person that reads this email, takes it seriously, and orders up some Pizza Hut for delivery this Mother’s Day.

On a side-note, this rant does not apply to children under the age of… oh let’s go with 10.  Anything kids do is cute, so they can get away with it in my book.  So long as their Dad didn’t suggest the Pizza Hut thing to them first.