Sunday, February 05, 2006

9 degrees


It was zero degrees yesterday morning.
I was not impressed.
A few highlights for your entertainment:
For lunch yesterday, we went to a restaurant and we all ordered a walleye sandwich.
For the uninitiated, walleye is like manna from heaven around here.
Our plates were heaped with food. It was pretty tasty, I have to admit, but I was unable to finish my food. The waitress/owner confronted me on this:
"Well," she said, haughtily,"We don't see much food coming back, so we have to ask what the problem is."
I had to insist, twice, that the only problem I was having was that it was too much food.
She was annoying, but not as annoying as the guy at Halibuts.
In the same restaurant, I experienced something really creepy in the women's restroom.
This restroom, like many these days, had advertising on the stall door. This particular advertising was a giant photo of a guy I went to highschool with, who is now a realtor.
There is nothing quite like sitting on a toilet and seeing the bloated face of someone you went to school with smiling out at you from the stall door.
My dad loves the online. He orders lots of stuff on the internet, and he thinks it's the best thing ever. Last night he spent some time expounding on how he researches everything on the internet. "I have it," he proclaimed. "I might as well use it."
Damn straight.

2 comments:

Shawn said...

Geez, I had when wait staff turn into dietians and food police!

The realtor scenerio could be worse, he's could be Minnesota's only NUDIST realtor. Then the bloat would go on, and on, and on....

As per yer Dad's use of the internet! Right on! I'll second that "Damn Straight"!

Sam Artman said...

At least you aren't shirking any selfimposed commitments like some of us. Oh well, when I said "every day", I didn't know what I was doing. Now I know better.