On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:11:12 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-08-11 5:18 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 8/11/2017 1:53 PM, wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:47:22 -0400, Dave Smith
>
>>>> At a family gathering the big niece went into the kitchen and started
>>>> packing up all the food to take home with her. Her brother confronted
>>>> her and told her that was unacceptable.
>>>
>>> big niece?
>>>
>> Dave hasn't mentioned her in a while. Surely you remember the tales of
>> his "big niece" who would attend, say, Thanksgiving family dinners and
>> eat pretty much everything in sight? IIRC if she couldn't find
>> something on the buffet table she liked she'd help herself to whatever
>> she could find in the kitchen.
>
>Actually, she never seems to have problems finding things she likes at a
>buffet. She will eat pretty much anything, and in large quantities. That
>does not stop her from sneaking off to the kitchen and raiding the
>pantry, opening up boxes of crackers and cookies and whatever else there
>is.
>
>One of the more memorable buffet tales was when her mother was living in
>an apartment for artists and actors and there was a Boxing Day potluck.
>She and her also large husband brought half a head of lettuce, with a
>little bit of tomato and onion as a salad. She was eating it on the way
>for her mother's apartment to the party room. When the dinner bell went
>she was one of the first in line. Instead of taking the plate on top,
>she moved all the plates to get the big one at the bottom, and then she
>proceeded to pile it high with all the good food that others had bought.
>
>
>The last time I had to endure a meal with her was when her mother took
>us to a restaurant. BN ordered something that came with fries or salad.
> It was not a surprise to me that she opted for the salad, but a few
>minutes later she called the waitress over and asked for the salad. When
>her meal came with the salad she asked about the fries. The waitress
>said she thought that she had wanted salad instead of the fries. Nope,
>she wanted both. So the waitress headed off to the kitchen to correct
>the problem. A couple minutes later, BN called her over and cancelled
>the fries. A little while later she called the waitress over again and
>ordered the fries... again.
>
>IIRC correctly, you once worked as a waitress. I wonder how you would
>have liked to be able to deal with a customer like that.

But no one answered why she's the BIG niece.