If A Meal Was Going To Get Screwed Up - Guess Whose It Was?

Jennifer was a finicky eater, as I believe I have mentioned more than once. It never failed that if we were out to eat and a person’s food order was going to get screwed up it was going to be Jennifer’s.

More often than not it involved having Mayonnaise on the order. She hated Mayonnaise, and if you wanted to see her get pissed, it was when she sent it back and they just scraped the Mayo of it and sent it back out. She was having no part of that. I always told her it was because she was messing with the system by asking to have certain ingredients omitted (like ginger). She did not like ginger in her stir fry dishes, but she loved ginger snap cookies! She hated peas but loved split pea soup.

So many times it was a texture issue, that I just never grasped. She loved olives but hated mushrooms. To me those are about the same type texture, but not to her.

I am more of a “order what you want and eat what you get type person”. Not Jennifer she ordered what she wanted and if it came out something else, there was going to be some pouting and grumping.

Last night my Dad’s food order got screwed up and it made me think of the many times this happened to her.

Last night we attended Dad’s rotary club social function at Buffalo Wild Wings. It was a nice function. They had us in a separate room from the main restaurant. The only real issue was they only had one waitress to serve the room. It was a little chaotic because people were trickling in and the poor gal was running ragged getting drink orders. They had some chip/salsa/ guacamole trays out for people to munch on. However no napkins or utensils. I went out and got some napkins for the room, needless to say it was quite a while before we got food orders placed

Anyway after a good bit we were finally able to get our order for food in. Dad ordered chicken tenders and onion rings. I ordered boneless wings and Mom just ordered onion rings. Well after a good long while the food finally starts coming out and Mom and Dad gets their onion rings, but no tenders, but food was still coming so we did not say anything.

Well finally pretty much everyone had their food except for Dad. Well we finally get the waitress’s attention and ask her about his tenders. She goes “oh I forgot to tell you , we are out of chicken tenders”. So he ended up getting boneless wings which took about another 10 minutes to show up. All I could think of Jennifer had been there it would have been hers order that would have been screwed up.

What boggles my mind is a chicken place not having chicken. This is not the first time I have had that happen. Jennifer and I had that happen once at a KFC! It is like a golf course running out of hot dogs. Jim and I had that happen (and that place was only blocks from a grocery store). As Shannon Sharp would say “C’mon Man”.

Well enough for today.