Check Please!
Ok so am I the only person who believes in privately asking my waitress for a separate check at the onset of a lunch excursion? The expression “the more the merrier” must have been created by someone who is obviously oblivious to the fact that more people = more problems.
While the occasional mid-day bite to eat with friends can be a treat in itself, it should never be, dare i say it? TAXING. After waiting 15 minutes to be seated (a combination of the restaurant not allowing you to be seated because someone in your party was running late AND at least one table full of idiots who want to sit and chew the fat about their plans for yet another boring weekend while swirling an empty cup of ice chips), you’re finally being led on a seemingly neverending path to the only available large table, positioned in the back of the restaurant near the kitchen that is sweltering and needless to say, funky. At last, you sit in a chair only to have a torn plastic seat cushion riding your rear end that you pray doesn’t tear your last pair of stockings.
The waitress comes over with a dirty dishcloth to remove the traces of the party who had been there before us, leaving a lingering odor of what smells more like mop water than anything. It’s time to order and there are 3 people in your party who have no idea whatsoever “what they’re in the mood for”, and I guarantee you at least one out of the 3 doesn’t even know what type of cuisine we are anticipating (did you happen to catch the name of the place on the way in??). Classic.
Then there’s the painstaking ordering process in which I know will cause me to have to pop an aspirin after all is said and done. A dozen people all order something different so they can share because of calorie counting (oh please people get over it and don’t eat out!), somebody can’t eat cheese, someone wants to ‘create thier own combo’ by putting things together that don’t belong so the waitress has to run back and check with the cook, blah blah, all which make this one simple task something complicated beyond belief. Read the rest of this entry »
