Thursday, August 31, 2006

Fine "Guidos" Dining and Circumcisions

I feel bad right now. For the first time ever, I have left a restaurant having, more or less, not tipped the waiter- unless you call a 39 cent tip a "tip". Let me explain: This bastard waiter at Guido's Pizza in Cool Springs, after bringing Allie and I are initial drinks, completely ignored us for the rest of the night. I spent half of my meal with an empty drink and then had to wait an additional fifteen minutes for him to come by to give us our check. I was nearly to the point of getting up and walking out because of the frustration. It also doesn't help when you see the only other waiter coming to his tables dozens of times throughout your meal, yet you NEVER see your waiter. The crazy thing is that I feel bad about what I did...I hurried out of that restaurant like there was no midnight....even to the point of sacrificing leftover spaghetti that Allie left on the table. As we walked out, Allie said, "Shoot, we forgot the to-go box." "Dammit Allie! Now we can't go back and get it. He's read the note and seen the tip by now. Just leave it."

You might have noticed that I used the word "note". This is because, yes, I did leave our boy a note.

Total=$16.71
Amount Left=$17.00
Note= "We are both servers (I fudged a bit on my part). If you would actually serve your customers, you would make good tips. Thanks for the refill by the way."

As we got into our car, minus said to-go box, I waited for a bit, sneakily watching through the restaurant window. I needed to see his reaction to the advice and the 39 cents. Although I never did see him, I think he learned his lesson. I thinks it is sometimes a chain reaction when a server sees younger people sit down. He probably thinks, "Damn, kids. They won't tip. I will just ignore them and do my side work." We think, "Damn. This waiter hasn't waited on us at all. We won't tip him." ...It just keeps going on and on like this with every table. Someone stop the chain! Stop it, man!

The sad thing is that because of our terrible meal and serving, Allie and I deduced that this white Cool Springs boy is a product of his rich parents and has never worked more than a four hour shift in his life. He also has no work ethic and is a bastard. In actuality, he probably found out that a grandparent had just died and spent the duration of our meal in the back crying. We will never know the truth. Yet, as always, I left feeling like I was the bad one.



On a lighter note, I received my cirumcision form from Kel from when I was a baby. Did anyone notice that next to length, it said 20 and a half. Yes, I'm big. Probably the biggest one in three counties.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

The Office



Speaking of getting emotional (see previous post), anyone see the Office's "Pam-Jim" montage-preview on NBC? How do we get so connected to these characters almost to the point of tears. ...Can't wait for Season 3.

5 Most Special Movies

My five...in no particular order. These are the five that first came to my mind. Maybe not my favorites.

1. Good Will Hunting (If only for the takedown in the bar; "Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter?)

2. Contact ("In time, you'll make another move. Small moves, Elle")

3. Back to the Future ("I'd like to get that in writing." 'Yeah, me too.')

4. Shawshank Redemption ("There's a river of dirty money flowing through this place")

5. Rocky IV ("Adrian always tells the truth. Maybe I can't beat him. Maybe, I can take everything he has."


Your turn. Don't diss me for Rocky IV. Anyone that doesn't get emotional watching that movie deserves to have pee placed on their head.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Snapshots


I thought it would be fun to, every month or so, update my current media interests. It would be nice if everyone reading this would post a comment with their current interests also. Here are mine.

"Song Stuck In Your Head": "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room", John Mayer

"Favorite Recently Read Book" "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", J. K. Rowling

"Favorite TV Show of the Year"(Tie) "Project Runway" & "The Office", Bravo and NBC, respectively

"Most Repeated Movie Watches of the Year" "Rounders", Matt Damon, Edward Norton

"Favorite Take-Down Line" "Tell someone, 'You have something in your nose'...then immediately walk away."

"Looking Forward To" "Nintendo Wii and new Zelda"

"Last returned item" "Digital Camera returned after rented for Disney World vacation"


...Now your turn.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Song of the Month

Check out "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room" off of John Mayer's new album, "Continuum". This is one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. Reminds me of everything that I like in music...very beautiful.

Of course, my new song, "Pave the Way" is much better. This song just rocks. No one is gonna tell me that they don't like it...no matter what music they like.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Pimp

Once upon a time, Kel and I were forced to leave a movie theatre because some Chinese punk was practicing ghost punches..eventually intended for our faces. Click the link below and you will see what our Chinese friend ended up doing to a pimp. That could have been us!

http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/karatechop.html

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Kingda Ka


When Kel and I boarded the coaster for Top Thrill Dragster (scared as balls can be), we thought we were about to ride the highest, fastest, and scariest ride available. Unfortunately, it seems that Six Flag's "Great Adventure" is thirty feet higher and 8 mph faster. As Karate Kid's nemesis says, "Second place is no place." It looks like we'll have to plan a trip soon to scale this new unchartered mammoth. I'm thinking four people this time. Allison, me, ...and any two other people.....or four if we can get. Maybe J, A, K, M.....or J,A,Ma,A.....or J, A, M, K....J, A, H, K ......I'd even love to get mom and Damon on this son of a beast. What do you guys think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingda_Ka

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Three Disney Pics




The third picture was stolen via "digital picture of tv screen." I ain't paying $15 for a picture!

Donkey Buttocks


If this guitar could talk, it would say go to Jeff's Myspace and hear his two new opposite sounding songs. (See link)


Poker night was pretty much a success. I'd like to do it once a month...maybe a different game every month.