8 January 2011

My life changed radically 7 May 2004 or 6 years 8 months 1 day ago...
I don't know if this could have been avoided but it might have been put off.

Breakfast: Kathie's big breakfast of

• bacon
• scrambled eggs
• Serri Lee coffee cake
• coffee

My dog enjoyed his share from both of us...

Lunch: at Appleby's

• cup of onion soup
• "sizzling fahiates"{sp} with
  
• steak
• chicken
• white cheddar cheese
• sauteed veggies
• sour creamme
• desert of chocolate moose in a large "shot glass" and
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

There was a man (in his late 20s) with a little girl (about 6 years old) seated at the table across the divider from us. At first, I thought he was talking to the air, like a classic lunatic, but he turned his head and I could see he had a little phone in his left ear. He simply looked like a head-case talking to the air. He got done with his "urgent" call, promised to call back and split out several statements at the child. It was apparent he was a "non-custodial parent" taking his daughter out to lunch and he didn't know how to engage the child in conversation. She continued coloring her Appleby's place mat and didn't reply. (Maybe I simply could not hear her?) He stopped trying to talk with the girl and Kathie and I went back to our conversation.

Several minutes later, he was back talking to the air and the girl was silently watching him. This time, it was easier to block him out.

Eventually, I noticed he was gone. Kathie had been watching him and told me he had never gotten a menu and thus, had never ordered. This was clearly not a case of "the customer is always right". He simply rubbed the waitress and waiter wrong and they admitted this when Kathie asked them.

He probably told his friends of his bad service at Applebys and that is a shame as it was his bad manners that lead to the "wait staff" not wanting to serve him. One of the many extra things kids in school apparently should be taught  is "pay attention to the person you took out to lunch!" That just seems like good manners and common sense to me...

Dinner: I had

• a largish ham sandwich
• bowl of corn (which I had to cook in the microwave) and
• iced water

This is a meal I won't be repeating soon! The ham was limp and the corn simply lacked flavour; I should have spiced it up with whatever I could have found in the spice cupboard!