HMMMM
hmmm...
do you think that restaurant people do bad things to your food if you send it back? i usually don't order steak, but last night when i had dinner with a friend, the picture in the menu looked good, and i was hungry for steak, so i ordered a 7 ounce top sirloin, cooked medium.
when it arrived, it was (no exagageration) 1/4 inch thick, about 10 minutes past well done, and looked like it had been flattened under a doc marten. i have this total fear of angering people who prepare food, so i hacked off a bite, and chewed....chewed....chewed...and it was worse than it looked.
i really didn't want to either eat it or send it back. if i'd been alone, i probably would have cut my losses and left it on the plate. since i was with someone persitent, i got talked into sending it back. the waitress took the whole plate, leaving me sitting there watching everyone else eat.
i finally got my food back after what seemed a zillion years. the waitress told me that since i had to wait so long, they were comping my food. at this point, i was ready to just leave. however, the new steak looked pretty good, and i thought it would be really rude to leave after they had gone to all the trouble of cooking a whole new plate of food for me...so i ate it.
but...with every bite i thought about the movie "waiting" and wondered just what exactly happened to my steak and mashed potatoes back in the kitchen.
hmmmm...
do you think that restaurant people do bad things to your food if you send it back? i usually don't order steak, but last night when i had dinner with a friend, the picture in the menu looked good, and i was hungry for steak, so i ordered a 7 ounce top sirloin, cooked medium.
when it arrived, it was (no exagageration) 1/4 inch thick, about 10 minutes past well done, and looked like it had been flattened under a doc marten. i have this total fear of angering people who prepare food, so i hacked off a bite, and chewed....chewed....chewed...and it was worse than it looked.
i really didn't want to either eat it or send it back. if i'd been alone, i probably would have cut my losses and left it on the plate. since i was with someone persitent, i got talked into sending it back. the waitress took the whole plate, leaving me sitting there watching everyone else eat.
i finally got my food back after what seemed a zillion years. the waitress told me that since i had to wait so long, they were comping my food. at this point, i was ready to just leave. however, the new steak looked pretty good, and i thought it would be really rude to leave after they had gone to all the trouble of cooking a whole new plate of food for me...so i ate it.
but...with every bite i thought about the movie "waiting" and wondered just what exactly happened to my steak and mashed potatoes back in the kitchen.
hmmmm...
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