A few years back, Mr. Pam and I were going to spend
US Thanksgiving weekend in Toronto. We stopped in Buffalo for T-day
dinner, since I told him I at least had to have turkey that day (we got
the meal for free, but not cuz they planned it that way). Ah,
the old bring a cockroach in a film canister ploy. Even better - we were seated for a buffet, got food and
didn't get drinks served even though wait staff wandered by us
constantly. Didn't take 1st bunch of dishes away. Got dessert,
still no drinks. Finally sitting there waiting for a check. A
waitress who had walked by us a half dozen times and even looked in our
direction half way through our meal (we were sitting in the middle of a
well lit room, mind you) came over, apologized for the mess on the
table, picked up the dishes and asked if we wanted anything to drink and
that we could go up to get our food when we were ready. We told her
the water was just fine. We figured since we had spent 30 minutes
being invisible, so was our check. I'd say this is better than the
cockroach trick, but I don;t suppose the people who BYOC feel guilty about
having defrauded the restaurant. The goddam waiters at yours shoulda
felt like they'd defrauded their boss....but were probably too damn
dumb. We assume that you learned a valuable lesson from this when it
came time to open Pinhead Coffee. When we arrived at our hotel later that evening, the
concierge said they had Thanksgiving dinner in the restaurant that evening
so visiting Americans wouldn't miss out on the festivities. How
nice! Why we tend to find
our northerly neighbours are a friendly lot. D'ya think it's the
result of brain freeze, remoteness from NYC, or socialized
medicine? It's gotta be some sort of mental
defect.
If any Canadians stop into the shop today, I can
make them a turkey wrap, but I don't have any cranberry sauce or large
caliber weapons. Advise you start with weapons, unless you
have a wicked throwing arm with cranberry sauce. I could practice. That 16 oz can can make a hell of a
dent. Just don't eat the cranberry sauce from it once you've
dented it.
