Wait, is this something to be proud of about being American? There might be a touch of embellishment but those series of events are more or less what happens.

Christ this might be breaking in to a tad of our truck culture too, because it makes you feel as though you're a special kind of useful when your the guy with the truck that got the thing moved.

But dont worry about the pizza. Didn't know about the extra helper? Insist you're not hungry, you just got a couple hundred dollars of work done for the cost of pizza. Don't worry, there will be at least a slice left for you. It's a social interaction that is a lot less lopsided than it feels. The sharing of pizza is the commitment to (and quite probably planning) of the next "job".