Day of Disappointments

1) Mother's Day

2) Sandwich

3) Dr. Pepper

4) Chips

5) Taco Bell

1)

Because of another nationally recognized holiday that I don't recognize, I had to work a little bit this afternoon. In other words, because people decided that today was the day that they had to take mommy out for a steak dinner at the Outback, everyone employed by the restaurant has to make an appearance in some fashion. And most of them were to be there all day.

2)

They had sandwiches, bags of chips, candy, red bull, and other treats mainly for the kitchen staff, but also for some of those who were there all day. Which pretty much means the piggiest people got their hands on what they wanted. I decided to leave it all for the kitchen staff and little piggies. A customer left $4 on a gift card the other day, so I planned to use it and buy a delicious steak sandwich with aus jus. I order the meal from the bartender. 10 minutes later I am walking around trying to find a manager with his manager's card to discount my meal. They were so busy the burden for getting my meal discounted fell onto me. Real cute. So I wait around for awhile, trying to get someone to help me, when all of a sudden another bartender asks if I wanted that food put in. The other guy hadn't even sent the order in yet. So I was nowhere close to getting my delicious lunch and leaving. And I needed to leave. It was clear a lot of the other people weren't getting to leave, and I didn't want to make anyone feel shortchanged or jealous.

So I left without my sandwich of awesomeness.

3)

Well earlier I forgot to go to the store and replenish my supply of Dr. Pepper. It's a lot cheaper to do it at the grocery store. But this late at night I had to settle for 7-11. So I go in and I have to use the bathroom. Someone's in there. It's one of two employees. Thanks a lot lady. So not only have I disturbed this lady by interrupting her bathroom time, a fact in which she seems genuinely perturbed, but now I have to bother her again. There weren't any Dr. Pepper 2 liters in the display case. I happen to know that a lot of times they have extras in the back of the refrigerated area. So I stand around and wait for someone to help me by going in the back and getting me a cold Dr. Pepper.

4)

One of the bags of chips they had today at the restaurant were Chili Cheese Fritos. I love them!They're pretty much my favorite chip right now. But as I said earlier, I didn't take any of the free food from the restaurant today. So I thought I would pick up a bag with the Dr. Pepper. 7-11 didn't have any Chili Cheese Fritos. On a day of disappointments, who could be surprised? I settled for Cheetos. I get them home, and there's barely any cheese flavoring on them. The disappointment continues.

5)

On the way home from picking up the Dr. Pepper and Cheesless-tos, I thought I would stop off at Taco Bell. A horrendous burrito from them actually sounded edible at this point. Now at about this point I should mention, I am on foot. So I walk up to the front door and of course ... it's locked. I thought about going around and using the drive-thru, but at this point I had had all of the disappointment I could handle. I probably would have gotten hit by a car if I had tried to walk through the drive-thru.

So I headed home, feeling slightly dejected, but glad to be alive and young in Oklahoma.

At least I got my Dr. Pepper. Happy greeting card holiday, people.

/whine

Spinach Man. or Anti-Spinach Man, as it were. This guy said he didn't want a salad because he can't stand any kind of lettuce. So I offered him the soup instead. Well the Minestrone was no good because it's a vegetable soup. And the Italian Wedding soup wouldn't work because the description in the menu says it has spinach in it. Now I assure the guy that you can't even really tell there's spinach in it at all. You can't taste spinach. I should know. I have had like 5 bowls of it in the last 3 days. So he says he guesses he will give it a try, but he is ever remaining skeptical. His body language tells me that he is not going to eat it anyway.

I bring it out and immediately his face turns sour as he sees the little green flecks floating in the soup. I say, "You won't even be able to taste the spinach." and he points out that you can see it though. He doesn't eat it.

Later I tell him a story about how I used to be a picky eater like him, and then one day I enjoyed a sandwich from Schlotsky's Deli with everything on it. Tomatoes, lettuce, the works. And what I realized that fateful day was that the ingredients in a good meal come together to make up a food experience that is greater than the sum of its parts. When I eat a turkey sandwich I don't taste lettuce or tomato or turkey by itself. I taste a Turkey sandwich. It's a unique pairing of ingredients. Somebody with better taste than my limited self had prior to trying it, found out that when you combine all of these wonderful things you get something really delicious.

He then has to tell me about how even if he is at a fast food restaurant and they accidentally put lettuce on his burger and then just scrape it off, he has to have a whole new burger because he can still taste the faint remnants of lettuce odor.

At this point I realize that he is one of those people who subscribe to a way of life just so they can constantly complain and persistently draw attention upon themselves in any given outing. Some of my vegan acquaintances are the same way. I know there are people who are vegan because they truly believe in that way of life, and are devoted to it for "the right reasons". However, it is my opinion that some of these people just like to be difficult. They enjoy being the center of attention for the time they are at the dinner table with others. If they can whine and complain about how some restaurant "doesn't have anything" they can eat, then they are on cloud 9. I believe this because this is the national past time of the ones I am speaking of. The real vegans don't tend to complain as much. They know that the dietary choice they have made comes with some consequences and they quietly try to make due, especially when out in public and with others who may be non-vegan. They aren't showy about it. I like that.

This guy was an attention seeker. He loved being able to complain on and on about how places are always trying to force feed him some vegetables. What is wrong with people like that? Don't they see that they are not intelligent and that they should just get with the program and enjoy delicious foods? Especially when said foods are so good for your body. Yumm.

Thank you Mr. Anti-Spinach Man. You really made my night a little crummier tonight.

Abracadabra!

People ask me what I have been up to lately and the answer sounds kind of bad to me. I tell them I have been playing a lot of World of Warcraft and watching a lot of Lost. Lost is kind of a new thing to me. I am on the fourth season already. But Stephen and I just started watching it fairly recently. The show's been on for like 4 or 5 years and we just now got into it. Netflix released the first four seasons on their "Watch Now" feature and we have been burning through them. It's really very entertaining. If you are familiar with the show, please don't spoil anything for me. I love the surprise of it all. My favorite thing about the show is the many shocks and cliffhangers, when it gives me goosebumps. They have these big surprises and this musical climax that just work in tandem to create something really exciting.

So this morning I am staying with the pleasant and sweet Eric and Ashley Cox. They are my hosts for the duration of the Texas 2009 Labor Day meeting ere in the Ft. Worth/ Dallas area.

I played this to get us in the mood for some gospel singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKTk_8W3qo

Everything in moderation

Heading down to Dallas/Ft. Worth in a few. Wanted to set this up so I could link it to my facebook badge really quick.