A Dining Out Rant

We decided that we were going out for dinner as we are still being lazy and not cooking at home like we are supposed to. I had called my parents to see if they wanted to eat at a newer local place with us, not thinking that today was the night before Valentine's and my dad's last night home this week. So, they had gone out to celebrate at Outback. As I was driving to get Matthew, I kind of started getting the taste for their cheese fries...yummmmm!

We got seated at the restaurant right away and our server came promptly. The restaurant was fairly busy but not overly crowded. We ordered our appetizer, my cheese, fries and started chatting to pass the time.

As we chatted, it became harder and harder to hear each other because the group behind us kept getting louder and louder. Honestly, if you are sitting 3-5 feet from someone, do you really have to project your voice...at all? This group was apparently there on a business trip and they discussed their business, banking, the entire time. Two voices stood out in particular. A female with the shrillest voice on the planet, I kid you not. And a loud obnoxious guy with a deep western NC accent who kept telling everyone how he was from Boo-ooo-oone (three syllables in the word Boone, I didn't know that was possible!)

I don't remember the female saying anything of note but the loud obnoxious guy was talking about how his wife was screwing over the company she worked for by taking her business trip meal per diem and buying a loaf of bread and then buying $75.00 gift cards at the Melting Pot. The, he spoke about a customer, who he called by his full name, who had over $500,000 in his checking account. So, not only are you telling your coworkers confidential information about one of your customers and how your wife is basically stealing money from her employer, you're telling EVERYONE IN HALF OF A CROWDED RESTAURANT. What a group of winners.

I kept hoping that they'd leave before we did so that we could at least have some part of our meal in peace but they stayed until about 2 minutes before we did. We would have left sooner, but it took 30 minutes for our waitress to bring us our check after she brought us our food. At least the food was good...

If this isn't motivation to cook at home, I don't know what is.