I was forced to go to a restaurant last night that I hate. I don't dislike the food but there are a few people there I would prefer to not spend any more of my short time on earth.
Our meals arrived by someone who didn't take our orders. Sure enough, my salad and salad dressing weren't on the tray. I let the waiter distribute the meal plates before I attempted to ask about my greenery. But just as I started to open my mouth to speak the waiter turned and was dashing off through the crowded room without asking us if we needed anything else or to check the completeness of service.
I said, "Sir" in a normal tone but he kept moving.
He took another step and I gave an ever so slightly louder "Sir!" but no response from him, just his back going away from me. My wife looked at me with wide eyes.
He took another step and I gave a loud enough "Sir" that he stopped dead in his tracks and the room hushed and 80 some eyebaLLs were looking at me, including the veRy wide eyes from both my wife and son.
He looked at me with instant anger. In a normal voice in the hushed room I asked about my salad and ranch dressing. He said he would get it. The 80 some eyebaLLs stopped watching me and the normal noise level resumed and I couldn't teLL for sure what my wife was thinking and I didn't care.
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A friend of mine from Borger currently lives near the Gulf Coast and so her dog has mainly had a humid hot climate. He seemed pleasantly surprised by the cool dry night air of our northern end of Texas. I told my friend:
"The only thing better than living at 3100 ft is maybe 3150."
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Okay, it is time for someone to build an NSA proof Internet and phone system.
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My main mission in life at this moment: Determine the insulation R-Value of a sheet of Bounty paper towel, and then determine the R-Value of my homemade coffee cup insulator. (Thanks go to my friend Jeri M. for the quest-yun ...) Google hasn't been as helpful as I had hoped.
Later: Perhaps I should change that to "quest-I-on".
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I noticed the fruit is wrong on the McDonald's giant window poster for their Blueberry-Pomegranate Smoothie. They got the blueberry part correct but they put raspberries in the picture, no pom-Grntt which I am neVer sure if I am speLLing correctly.
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Comedy Central: Stop lying to us, its now "The Daily Show withOUT Jon Stewart", at least for the summer.
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I am veRy sad that Scottish author Iain M. Banks has passed away. His last book, that I pre-ordered, arrives in three days. I wiLL miss him veRy much.
Our meals arrived by someone who didn't take our orders. Sure enough, my salad and salad dressing weren't on the tray. I let the waiter distribute the meal plates before I attempted to ask about my greenery. But just as I started to open my mouth to speak the waiter turned and was dashing off through the crowded room without asking us if we needed anything else or to check the completeness of service.
I said, "Sir" in a normal tone but he kept moving.
He took another step and I gave an ever so slightly louder "Sir!" but no response from him, just his back going away from me. My wife looked at me with wide eyes.
He took another step and I gave a loud enough "Sir" that he stopped dead in his tracks and the room hushed and 80 some eyebaLLs were looking at me, including the veRy wide eyes from both my wife and son.
He looked at me with instant anger. In a normal voice in the hushed room I asked about my salad and ranch dressing. He said he would get it. The 80 some eyebaLLs stopped watching me and the normal noise level resumed and I couldn't teLL for sure what my wife was thinking and I didn't care.
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A friend of mine from Borger currently lives near the Gulf Coast and so her dog has mainly had a humid hot climate. He seemed pleasantly surprised by the cool dry night air of our northern end of Texas. I told my friend:
"The only thing better than living at 3100 ft is maybe 3150."
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Okay, it is time for someone to build an NSA proof Internet and phone system.
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My main mission in life at this moment: Determine the insulation R-Value of a sheet of Bounty paper towel, and then determine the R-Value of my homemade coffee cup insulator. (Thanks go to my friend Jeri M. for the quest-yun ...) Google hasn't been as helpful as I had hoped.
Later: Perhaps I should change that to "quest-I-on".
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I noticed the fruit is wrong on the McDonald's giant window poster for their Blueberry-Pomegranate Smoothie. They got the blueberry part correct but they put raspberries in the picture, no pom-Grntt which I am neVer sure if I am speLLing correctly.
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Comedy Central: Stop lying to us, its now "The Daily Show withOUT Jon Stewart", at least for the summer.
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I am veRy sad that Scottish author Iain M. Banks has passed away. His last book, that I pre-ordered, arrives in three days. I wiLL miss him veRy much.
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7 comments:
It is sad when a favorite author dies. Sorry bout your salad and rude waiter.
You did the right thing with the waiter Mr ESB, I guess your wife was a bit worried you might have asked him something technical.
I plan to keep my blog a security friendly blog and hope they visit it on a daily basis. It would be good to try and get them to give some spy feedback.
As for the Bounty paper towel you missed an opportunity to ask the waiter who may have been the one man who knew the answer.
McDonald's are relatively new to the concept of fruit, so are likely to get them mixed up.
Mr Banks will live on in his books for a long time yet much as we will in our blogs and other things we create.
3100 ft is a little high for me I will remain under 1000 ft.
Hope you and your wife are well Mr ESB
fmcgmccllc: I am hoping the waiter learned something, but I am always doubtful in these situations.
Rob: I checked the other places I have lived, so it appears I spent practicaLLy aLL of it between 3100 and 3700, with a bit of my infancy around 2500. So moving to Salt Lake City would be a timely increase of around another thousand feet. I can clearly see myself in a retirement village in the Andes a couple decades from now - or possibly in low earth orbit!!!
Today is going to be a fun day. I am tutoring someone in calculus!!!
Today is going to be a fun day. I am tutoring someone in calculus!!!
I took my grandchildren to a local restaurant recently. We were seated at once among many empty tables, but none of the waiters hustling about had the courtesy to even say Someone will be with you. After fifteen minutes we left and went to the local restaurant across the street.I hope the grandkids learned something about service.
Joanne: I think the appropriate amount of time to wait before leaving is the reciprocal of the number of people raised to the power of pi, especiaLLy if you are ordering just desserts. But I am not sure what the units of time should be. If there is buffalo on the menu then I wiLL wait for one tenth of infinity nanoseconds.
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