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April 30, 2007
Mo Lie Mow! (or, how do you say Gesundheit! in Chinese?)
First thing first. Good morning, and yes, I mean that in the birds are chirping, it's not friggen raining, and I believe I just caught a glimpse of the sun sort of way.
Today's blog is brought to you by Point Break Live! and Miss Manners and Loius CK
As the above already lets you know what i've done this weekend, I'll jump right into the crux of the entry.
What Would You Do?
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There we were, ( my beau and I, because women use pronouns) at a Chinese restaurant, after seeing Point Break Live. We were chowing down some Congee and discussing my seemingly rampant desire to make a fool out of myself onstage at public performances. We're about half-way done with our meal, and a woman walks by, baby in arms. The baby, cute as a button, and stuffed up as a teddy-bear, sneezes on our food. Let me expalin further:
The baby had food in her mouth and sneezed at the same time. We saw particles of snot and food spray across the table in an almost cinematic replication of Hooch's drippy, nasty, wet saliva, making its way across all of Turner's pristine apartment.
Our dinner, was done.
The nasty waitress (who could not endure my English) came by to ask how everything was, and the boy (because women use pronouns) explained the situation.
Eventually, the snot-riddled tot's mother came by and apologized, but did not offer any compensation for our completely ruined dinner.
Would you have?
Picture gleaned from:
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/images/sneeze.gif
Posted by lysa at April 30, 2007 9:10 AM
Comments
Can't comment too much as i was there, and no joke folks, the snot spray looked like it was shot out of a garden hose while hosing the garden. There was not a thing that avoided 'lil Godzilla's sneezebomb.
And i was enjoying my crab congee :(
In fairness, the Grandmother looked sincerely apologetic and she tried, in a fairly ineffective exercise, to make even 'lil 'Zilla apologize to us (whom only glared at us and made me feel guilty for having our food get in the way of her snot). But I wouldve totally offered to either offer to buy a new plate, or SOMETHING.
Posted by: booboo at April 30, 2007 9:56 AM
But was it good congee? I dunno.. I would have freaked too.
Posted by: scottie at April 30, 2007 11:03 AM
Would be difficult for me to say what I would have done in their position but I'd LIKE to think that I would have offered you some sort of (financial) compensation. Did you have to tell them what happened or did they notice it and immediately start apologizing?
Maybe they are too tight on funds to feed you and doing so would have cost them their diaper money for the week? The restaurant, if no one else, should have replaced your meals.
Either way? Pretty gross. Not sure what a congee is but I imagine that it was better pre-babyzilla snot. Bummer. =(
Posted by: Kbee at April 30, 2007 11:43 AM