Lazy Saturdays

On off days I can reflect on some of the unique situations that happen in any eating establishment. These stories aren't always elaborate, or flashy, but actions in dining establishments reflect many sociological tendencies. Let's use the second person perspective, to try to understand what it was that "you" may have been thinking.

:You order your dinner at a restaurant that you haven't visited in a few years. You are asked whether you want soup or salad and yes, you want a cup of soup. When the "cup" of soup arrives, it is in a small bowl. You are outraged. This is too much soup, you only wanted a cup, and every "good" restaurant offers soup in a cup. The amount of soup in a cup happens to be equal to the amount of soup served in the small bowl. Why on earth would this restaurant serve a bowl instead of a cup of soup? You motion for your waitress to come to the table, and you demand that the soup be removed from the check. Sure, you did eat the soup, but you did not expect that much soup? Although technically you recieved exactly the amount of soup that you ordered. The manager visits your table, to let you know that the soup is no longer on the check. You let the manager know that the waitress should not have told you about the problem. :

So, take the soup off because there was too much soup. I'm going to try that sometime. Excuse me sir, I ordered the steak and it is way too big. How am I going to eat it all? I'm not paying for it!

This incident continues to puzzle me. Sure, if I didn't know what I was ordering and I ordered too much I might be disappointed, but in my own judgement. An example would be if friends were coming over to watch a football game and I am ordering buffalo wings. If I order 100 but ony two guys show up, there will be leftovers. And there is a good chance that those leftovers will go bad in the fridge. However, I can't then be angry with the sandwich shop where I bought the wings, can I?

Today brought plenty of relaxation, and a late night screening of BASEketball, a true comedy/sports classic. I think the defining (not the funniest) scene of BASEketball, the scene that stands out and gives the film its place in comedy/sports history, as well as in the context of comedies from 1997, is a brief confrontation between main characters Remer and Coop, in which they exchange the word "Dude!" back and forth, changing tone and facial expressions, ending with Coop telling Remer, "You've got a point there."