Yesterday Evening.
I enjoyed yesterday, for it was good.
Me, Mum, Dad, My Brother and his girlfriend all went for some food at Old Orleans in the Printworks. The restaurant takes the ‘I am Blombo, I will be your waiter’ thing a bit too far, for not only do they say the afore mentioned quote but they write their name on the table. Obviously it’s not a linen cloth they write it onto, it’s a paper table cloth on top of a linen one. So our relatively delightful waitress wrote ‘April’ across the table.
No, not the April you’re thinking of.
I found this to be quite a strange concept. So after all three courses had been cleared up I noticed they leave two Crayola crayons on each table. Probably for children or something.
Dad had commented throughout the meal that the waitress isn’t getting a tip because she didn’t ask what his name is. (Sounds oh so like something I would say…..) With the new found Crayola he scribed his name into the table as if to say ‘Yeah, well, she’s knows it now, doesn’t she?”
I wasted no time scribing underneath ‘IS GAY’. This coming from the only person at the table not sat with their beau. Not that I have one, of course. We found it extraordinarily funny……… “haha, gay!”. He then added ‘Marvin’ and an extra ‘e’
‘John is Marvin Gaye’. Yeah Dad, really black aren’t you?
Mum decided to draw a bloated looking woman looking ever so slightly distressed about the amount of food she had consumed. Dad wasted no time in drawing a Hitler Moustache on the drawing. Before I wrote in relatively large letters in a speech bubble “Heil Hitler!”
Mum scribbled out my quotation, claiming it was a step too far. I suggested that she should shut up.
Of course, not content with destroying Mum’s picture, Dad had to go one step further by drawing a GIANT SWASTIKA above the picture.
I didn’t stop laughing until they said that I have to chip some money in for the meal. wtf.
While all this was going on my brother and his girlfriend sat there looking disapproving, occasionally asking, “How old are you supposed to be?”
My Dad is 60 this year.