I’m currently sitting in a restaurant with my extended family, as one often does during the holiday season. They’re all eating. It’s not rude of them to be eating while I sit and stare at my empty placemat, because you see, they ordered soup and salad bar with their meal. I, did not.
It’s quite unsettling to have everyone else eating while I sip my ice water. Sure, I could snitch a crouton or two, but really it’s not the same. I could make a pterodactyl out of my placemat. Really. I make a mean paper pterodactyl. I worry it would be considered rude to start a craft project during the meal though. So, here I sit, blogging on my phone. It could be worse.
Here’s my holiday tip for those of you frequenting restaurants with your family: Order the salad bar. Really. Everyone else will, and you’ll be like me, alone with your phone. You’ll hope your meal comes soon, but you’ll realize the kitchen put your order on hold because everyone is eating salad. Happy Holidays everyone. May your weekend be full of food, and not paper pterodactyls. 😉
UPDATE: This blog post was eaten TWICE by the WordPress application for Android. Yes, I’m an idiot for expecting something different the second time I typed it on my phone…
“Rawr!” says the paper pterodactyl! “Where is my paper fish? Rawr!”
Merry Christmas, Shawn – may it be filled with non-origami food.
You’re not an idiot. You’re QC testing. Remember, if it only happens once, it never happened.
Dr. Phil
Oh, and here I was thinking you were thinking of those of us that won’t even have soup for X-mas. Imagine if you had nothing else coming to you while every one else had soup…
It’s worse than that, they have SALAD TOO! ;o)