Both my parents were off today, as was I, so when they invited me to a late lunch around 2pm I figured, "why not?" As one of the only non-senior citizens in the place, I was disappointed to see that the menu had changed a lot since the last time I had been, which was probably awhile ago. Mom had the menu and all the assorted add on menus scattered in front of her, but was staring off into space.
"You know what you want?" dad asked her, bringing her back to Earth, and panic-stricken, she shuffled them about and wanted to know what we were eating.
Of course she ordered last, but proceeded to order the exact thing my dad ordered (blueberry pancakes, hash browns, eggs over easy, bacon, and a side order of grits(except for turkey bacon, she wanted it real, yet later claimed she did not know they had turkey bacon)) but in a completely different way so that she confused our easily confused waiter. Although mom drinks coffee anytime of the day and never needs a coffee partner, she actually ordered a glass of tomato juice instead and she heard my dad was not having coffee.
After our orders arrived, my parents argued about where grits come from. They were both right, grits come from grain as well as hominy.
Later, the waiter brought us a random bottle of ketchup after the check had already come and none of us had requested it.
Monday, October 5, 2009
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Your parents sound adorable. The last time my parents went to dinner together was literally almost 20 years ago!
ReplyDeletewhile I hope they have many many dinners together, you may want to let them know about this undercover video taken at IHOP's egg supplier showing eggregious animal cruelty and severe food safety issues: www.humanesociety.org/ihop
Your parents are probably just as against animal cruelty as me so we might not want to support IHOP until it switches some of its eggs to cage-free in order to address the serious problems within its supply chain. Thanks for your time reading this comment and for your fun post.
We had the egg subsitute, but I will let them know and perhaps next time suggest someplace else.
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