On Mar 28, 3:29*pm, Kris > wrote:
> On Mar 28, 12:24*pm, "The Ranger" > wrote:
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> > The proverbial "we" decided to invade a local chain one lunch. As chains go,
> > it wasn't bad and provided a haven of "safe" foods for everyone to munch
> > upon while we all socialized.
>
> > Then the female equivalent of Badluck Schleprock that can-and-does find
> > everything wrong with Real Life® rose with a great flourish and protest, "I
> > cannot believe what I'm hearing. This is a 'chain' and not a very good one.
> > My food was barely edible and my coke watered down to a bare fizzle. You
> > should have chosen better. I was forced to come here."
>
> > Now, don't get me wrong, I wasn't impressed with the place either but I
> > don't remember a gun or other such instrument being held to her back as she
> > was brought in.
>
> > As providence would have it, the person that suggested the restaurant
> > pointed this out to her. She then asked Schleprock to wait out in the car
> > like an errant child so there wouldn't be any further incidents.
>
> > Why would anyone go out to lunch to a restaurant they hated simply to make a
> > scene like that? If I don't wish to go to a chosen restaurant, I beg off.
> > It's that simple.
>
> > "We're headed out to Applebee's. Wanna join us?"
> > "No thank you. Not this time."
>
> > It boggles me that someone would do what she did. (Although, I did thank
> > her; she provided more material to write about.)
>
> > The Ranger
>
> Sounds like she'd better oragnize the next one or she's going to be
> left out from now on.

Just like I'm "stuck" making way more than my share of the holiday
meals. It's the only way to ensure that the food is up to standard,
i.e. doesn't include jarred gravy.
>
> People like that need to learn manners some way.

I don't go out to lunch with my boss because he insists on going
through the drive thru, and taking it back to work, instead of eating
in. When the food gets back to work, it is no longer right. Example,
McDonald's French fries. However you feel about them to begin with,
they certainly aren't very good six or ten minutes old. I like my
boss. He's a good guy, but his standard for food freshness means that
I don't go get lunch with him. I don't go to certain places because
of bad food. There's a nice YMCA resort in this area. Nice, except
that meals are included in the exorbitant price, and the food is less
than Rally's quality. Precooked burgers sitting in God knows what
that liquid is, burger broth? *Shudder*. Half hour old "fries"
sitting in a chafing dish. It created some tension with my extended
family when I spoke to the manager and told him that the food was
worse than a grade school lunchroom. I really insulted the
operation. I left after one day, when I'd expected to stay three.
They ended up comping me the one day that I did stay, which mollified
me. Notice that I called it "otherwise nice."
>
> Kris

--Bryan