18 December 2010

Breakfast: Egg salad sandwich and chips, plus coffee and cold water

Lunch: At this Mexican Place at the local mall:

• taco
• hamburger wrapped in dough (I don't recall the name)
• red rice
• glass Diet Pepsi without ice...

Unless I am totally wrong, those are "ice cubes" in my "Diet Pepsi, no ice".  My wife reminded me the waitresses are so used to putting ice in drinks that she probably wasn't aware of icing up my "Diet Pepsi, no ice". Still it annoys the crap out of me...

The service was simply awful! I mean really, really poor. They put us in a bad location (against a wall and hidden by the bar) and then ignored us until the waitress trundled up to take our order. I ordered Flan for desert and she wanted to bring it to me before the meal! Right there, I realized we were going to have problems! (This was a mall so being "Anglo" in a place with lots of Mexican customers should not have a problem.) We got the chips and salsa and eventually the food. "Our" waitress kept going to the other tables and I ended up having to wave at her to get her to come over and refill my drink.

When the meal was over, and "our" waitress came over to clear the table, my wife reminded her: "Where is his Flan order?"

"Oh."

We had to go to the cashier's station to get our bill. The Flan order was on the bill and we could well have paid for flan not received if we had not been so pissed off that we carefully read the bill.

That took about another eight minutes to get the Flan and the flan was fine

We had to go to the cashier's station to get our bill. The Flan order was on the bill and we could well have paid for flan not received if we had not been so pissed off that we carefully read the bill.

The service sucked; I hope my wife remembered that when she left the tip, in cash, on the table. But, knowing her, she had to have over tipped...

Dinner: We had the office Christmas Party at Casey's Cowtown. The meal consisted of:

• salad with a white dressing
• overcooked ribeye steak
• baked potatoe
• roll and butter
• iced water

The steak was a bit overdone but then Mike Casey had a house full of people doing Christmas Parties. So, it was excusable.