Fork and Knife Affair
Thursday, December 22, 2005
We watched from afar; it was quite the ordeal. They clamoured around like a couple of tourists, unsure of where to sit, unsure of how to order. Couple of young kids, what do they know, anyways?
So, they come back to their table with their first plate of really good buffet food, I must say, and sit down. We could see them eating, and talking, enjoying themselves. The young boy seemed to fiddle with his chair and table and couldn't seem to get comfortable at all.
You see, these chairs, their arm rests are higher than the usual chair, so it makes for an uncomfortable utensil to plate angle. Anyways, the young boy slid his plate of roast beef and green beans closer to the edge of the table, to satisfy whatever need to be comfortable.
Sure enough, as any silly young chap would, he reaps the reprocussions of his choices, and in attempt to cut through his roast beef, pressed down on the portion of the plate overhanging the table and sends it in his lap and on the floor.
Beef and green beans everywhere! You shoulda seen this kid look around in pure embarassment. Both of them froze, not really knowing what to do. He ended picking up most of it onto his plate and switched spots with the chair next to him. I kinda felt sorry for the kid now, cuz he had this beef blotch all over his crotch, nevermind the runners he was wearin'; clearly he wasn't from around these parts.
I couldn't help myself but to stare at him any time he got out of his chair. Maybe he's American. Don't they use a fork and knife down there?
So, they come back to their table with their first plate of really good buffet food, I must say, and sit down. We could see them eating, and talking, enjoying themselves. The young boy seemed to fiddle with his chair and table and couldn't seem to get comfortable at all.
You see, these chairs, their arm rests are higher than the usual chair, so it makes for an uncomfortable utensil to plate angle. Anyways, the young boy slid his plate of roast beef and green beans closer to the edge of the table, to satisfy whatever need to be comfortable.
Sure enough, as any silly young chap would, he reaps the reprocussions of his choices, and in attempt to cut through his roast beef, pressed down on the portion of the plate overhanging the table and sends it in his lap and on the floor.
Beef and green beans everywhere! You shoulda seen this kid look around in pure embarassment. Both of them froze, not really knowing what to do. He ended picking up most of it onto his plate and switched spots with the chair next to him. I kinda felt sorry for the kid now, cuz he had this beef blotch all over his crotch, nevermind the runners he was wearin'; clearly he wasn't from around these parts.
I couldn't help myself but to stare at him any time he got out of his chair. Maybe he's American. Don't they use a fork and knife down there?
3 Comments:
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I laugh a second time. In fact, the story gets better and better the more times I relive it!
By , at 2:14 p.m. -
point number 1....that young lad could be me anytime I go to eat anywhere that requires some form of class...I am a classless individual and I too would have wound up with a beef blotch crotch
By , at 10:43 p.m.
Point nmber 2...Erin, I am just going to start calling you "E" from now on ... or "E-Dawg".....whichever you find more annoying :) -
I was in a shmancy restaurant the other day..buffet too as it were. A young girl tripped on the stairs spilling her plate everywhere..and showing everyone her butt crack. Yea..she was pretty embarrassed too!
By , at 8:44 p.m.