Adventures in Eating Out

We just got back from eating out and there are two things that stick out in my mind that I just had to blog about.

The first is we had to wait for a table (which is not a shock especially on a Saturday night). Right around the time they told us our table would be ready Dave went to check on the placement of our name on the list. The last time we were at Maggiano's they skipped over our name and it took us forever to get seated. We were compensated that time for our wait and was taken very good care of by our waiter but I digress. So as Dave is waiting to talk to the host the man in front of him asks the host to be seated and was told the time amount and apparently this wasn't satisfactory to the man because he slipped the host a $20 (obviously he wasn't as slick as he thought because Dave was able to watch the whole thing take place). The host then helped Dave and told us there was only one person in front of us.

Dave came back to the wait area and told me what happened we watched the man who slipped the host a $20 and he was seated before us!!! How frustrating!! There was one other couple seated and then us so we didn't wait much longer but how many people went in before us just because they have a some cash burning obvious holes in their pockets.

The next event happened at the table. Arden was in the middle of eating her dinner and all of a sudden she puts her head to her shoulder (imagine holding a telephone between your ear and shoulder) and just starts talking to herself and at the same time feeding herself with her fork. This continues for a couple of minutes. I couldn't stop laughing. I guess she's seen me eating and talking on the phone at the same time.