Of the 592 hours that have transpired in the month of June thus far, I have spent approximately 60 of them driving around the country in our minivan. (That is 10.1%) When we are on these road trips, there are only three activities in which I can engage without getting car sick: 1)Driving, 2) Listening to music or podcasts or audiobooks, and 3) Thinking. Of course, all three of these activities can be engaged in concurrently. I tend to think alot as the scenery along the interstate blazes past us at 65 or 70 or 75 miles per hour. Here is a collection of some of the more coherent of my thoughts from the road.
Part One - "The Blame Game"
We ate at a Cracker Barrel on Monday night. Our waitress had only one star on her apron. I'm assuming that means she is either new on the job or not very good on the job. Actually, I think it was a combination of both. I ordered my steak medium--it was well-done. My mom didn't want gravy on her potatoes--there was gravy on her potatoes. The camel back-breaking straw was when my wife ordered country-fried steak and was given country-fried chicken instead. When Danielle mentioned this to our waitress she said this, "Oh, did they do chicken?" Her intended implication here was, of course, that it was not her fault but rather the fault of the cooks in the kitchen who prepared the food. That really irritated me. As if the cooks would just spontaneously decide to prepare something totally different than what was on the order form. "Hey guys! It's says steak, but let's do chicken instead!" Or maybe they just got the raw steak and the raw chicken mixed up because they look so much alike! What we have here is a classic case of blame-shifting. The girl didn't want to admit that she wasn't listening very carefully when we ordered our meals. I hate blame-shifting! I especially hate it when I do it! Would that we all we would learn how to admit when we are wrong!
Part Two will be forthcoming...
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Maybe you were just in a bad mood because of your tire situation. Maybe you were just unnecessarily demanding of your hard-working waitress. Maybe she had had some really stressing situations enter into her life, and you, with the patience and understanding of Nero, made things worse by complicating the order. Instead of blaming your waitress, maybe you ought to remove the Pike National Forest from your eye.
Well, not everyone is perfect in getting EVERYTHING right. I work in a restaurant and i see how waiters and waitresses act to certain situations and i also know that sometimes a customer might be giving them a headache. The waitress might have had a customer earlier that was giving her some problems and she might of not got over the GRUDGE. Then you came and sat at her table, ahile she is still thinking about that annoying customer and maybe thats the reason she didn't get everything right OR the cooks might of been goffing around and did a mistake order. Anyway, some waitresses do their very best to get things done correctly so when you see one, make sure you tip them well cause maybe it will make their day a better day. :')
Hey this has abosolutly nothing to do on topic but the time on my last comment was an hour back. It should've been 4:19 not 3:19.
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