Carolyn: "......you're NOT touching my creme brulee....get your own (and then she added a very loving word that starts with a B and ends with an H.)"! lol
Me: "OK, OK, calm down...no one's touching your creme brulee!"
Carolyn: "Just making sure..."
Me: "The meals are pretty generous there, we could probably share."
Carolyn: "OK, but not the creme brulee."
Me: "Oh hell!!! No one is touching your damn creme brulee!!!" lol
Carolyn: "So, ya, that'll be good. We can just share the meal and each have our own servings of creme brulee."
Me: "I'm taking Austin, but he'll probably only eat spaghetti and meatballs. No biggie. We should all be good. And don't worry, no one will touch your stupid creme brulee."
Carolyn: "OK."
That was the night before.
Oh, and by the way, I could be exaggerating just a tad on how many times Carolyn actually used the word 'creme brulee' but I'm not.
Carolyn would be spending the night for old time's sake. Great! Time to catch up and relax! No stress, no worries. Just an easy, inexpensive, fun-filled night.
Friday comes around. As usual, I pick up Austin from football practice after work and head home to shower and change for our wonderful night at the wonderful Paesanos...where they serve the best shrimp paesano and of course, the best creme brulee.
Carolyn arrives. It's sooooo awesome every time I see her. All we do is laugh....about everything and anything! Our plan was to share our meal, order spaghetti and meatballs for Austin and order OUR OWN creme brulee. About 50.00 split, 25.00 each. Are you kidding me? Great food, great people AND creme brulee??? For about 25.00 each??? Awesome! With our plan in place, we head out the door.
Austin orders first: "Uh.... I'll have the spaghetti and meatballs and a lemonade, thank you."
Me: "We're gonna share the shrimp paesano *making the 'back and forth' hand gesture between Carolyn and I* and I'll have a Dr. Pepper, please. Thank you. Oh, and, my salad, make it Caesar, please. Graaaacccciiiaaassss."
Carolyn: "I'll have a 'side salad' also and a Sprite."
Notsogood waiter: "Sierra Mist OK?"
Carolyn: "Sure."
Food comes out along with an 'extra plate' and an 'extra drink' for Carolyn! Grapefruit Basil Mojito, to be exact! I hate mojitos, but this one tasted ok, still, I didn't order one. We needed to stay on budget! But because she drove in from a land far away, I figured I'd let this one slide. That's just the kind of friend I am...
Time for dessert. Shouldn't be that expensive... for crying out loud, it's Bill Cosby's pudding with a burnt topping! 3 bucks each top!
We finally get the notsogood waiter's attention.
Me: "He (Austin) and I would like to order the creme brulee, please."
Carolyn: "I'll have one to. Thanks."
The creme brulee is served in a dish that is on a plate that has powdered sugar and drizzled with I don't know what. The presentation was really nice. Austin and I dig in. Carolyn is hovering over her dessert. After like two minutes, our entire meal, PLUS a teeny portion of the creme brulee hit bottom! We were all stuffed and we hadn't even made it halfway through the stupid, but delicious, creme brulee! Yikes!
"Carolyn, you better eat all that damn creme brulee! You wanted your own! All three of us could have shared one!" lol!!! This is where it all began....
We were unsuccessful in putting away every last bit of the creme brulee. Ugh... we were extremely full....and happy. Kinda like the days we used to order a dozen flour tortillas and queso from Taco Cabana!
Then it happened. The bill.
You can imagine how we almost shit our pants when we saw the total! First of all, the effing meal DID NOT come with a salad and apparently they have no 'side salads'!!! They're full blown big ass salads! No wonder we couldn't finish them. 8.00 salads! Each!! Our meal (that we shared, by the way) was 24 Gdamn dollars! Half a tank of gas! That meal consisted of 6 dumb (but very tasty) pieces of shrimp and pasta that I could have made at home! Austin's meal was 12.00. Expected. Not expected: 4.00 for two stinking meatballs! Carolyn's mojito= 10.00.
We looked at each other and seemed really confused. We were expecting to pay no more than about 50.00 TOTAL. Not 108.38!! Sun uv a.........
Me: "Dammit Carolyn, you better eat all that shit! Lick that powdered sugar too! And make sure you drink that backwash you left in that 10.00, 2 ounce glass!!"
I think we were both so surprised at the total that we were becoming delirious. We forced all the creme brulee and believe me, had they not taken our salads or plates of food, we would have forced all that food in too! A hundred and eight stinking dollars!! The gratuity alone was 17.00!! Mutha.....shit! He didn't even give us refills! Or KY!
I licked all the sugar and ate all the brulee. Yay stuffed me! And once everyone was gone, I found some one's left overs that were left behind! lol I'm pretty sure I won't be wanting any kind of pasta or creme brulee for a while (well, maybe the creme brulee), but I wasn't about to leave left overs! I'm taking that shit home! 108.00 + leftovers = awesome deal after all! NOT!!!
I already miss you, Carolyn!!! Come back!! Let's try sharing a meal at, say.....anywhere but there!
~bankrupt :)
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