We took The Pony out for supper on Thursday, to a local catfish place. We got there at 3:53 (okay, we took The Pony out for LUPPER), and were pleased to see that we could get the all-you-can eat special for $2 less, since the lunch special ran from 11:30-4:00.
WELL! Those dirty dastardly do-nots did NOT give us the special price. Which I only just now figured out by checking the bill! It was just a matter of $6 total, but $6 is $6. I can't wait to complain to Farmer H for not raising the issue before paying! It's not OUR fault that they made us sit at the table without taking our order until right at 4:00. DANG THEM!
Anyhoo... my purpose when I started typing was to reveal that a customer behind us, an older man, all alone, kept talking to our waitress while she was at our table. Farmer H asked if she was having a good day, and she said she was ready to go home, since she'd been there since 11:00.
Guy Behind: "Well, you could have got on that bed with wheels they brought in here for you, and took a nap."
Hmm. That was odd. She smiled and said she wasn't ready to leave THAT WAY.
Guy Behind: "You know what was wrong with her, right? She ATE TOO MUCH!"
Waitress: "At first I thought maybe she had low blood sugar and was going into a coma, but she already ate! So it doesn't work that way!"
Guy Behind: "Her blood sugar was up, and her oxygen was 99. So she was fine!"
Waitress: "Did she go with them?"
Guy Behind: "No. She refused. Walked out on her own."
Huh. The more you know. I surmised that the paramedics had been there with a gurney, because a customer was about to die. Only she wasn't.
Then the waitress said, "You may not believe this, but that incident happens here at least once a week."
Maybe we'll catch it another time. Lupper and a show.
2 comments:
Technically, you weren't over-charged because your order wasn't taken until 4.00pm. Next time you'll have to get there earlier for the special price (and the show, maybe)
So was the food good?
River,
We didn't know there was a special price for lunch until we were shown to our table by a waitress, and handed the menus. The Pony saw it, and I said, "What time is it?" That's when he said it was 3:53. I think if you are seated and given your menu during the Lunch Special Time, you are entitled to that price.
Otherwise, what is the cutoff time? Can people come in at 3:30, and be left sitting at the table until 4:00, when the waitress suddenly appears to take their order at the non-special price? It's not like we arrived at 3:59, and slid into the table like Indiana Jones rolling under a descending wall!
We were in the building, standing at the front register, waiting to be seated before 3:50. We stood a while, as the three gals had a discussion of where to seat us. It was not crowded, but they were trying to balance people in each section, to be fair to the waitresses.
The food was delicious. Its tale will be told elsewhere.
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