Short (ha,ha, don’t believe him!) update, not much going on in the big city of “Beautiful downtown Apple Valley” this past week.
Brunch with BFF Rick at the Original Pancake house in Edina. I ordered the “Big Apple” pancake. And, a side of sausage links.
The food arrives, and I’m served two side plates with three link sausages each. I’m not sure how to interpret this, AND, silly me, I don’t bother to ask.
I can’t eat all six (huge) links, so I offer Rick to have some. We both eat two, leaving two left for one of us to take home.
Upon getting my check, I see charges for (2 sides) Link Sausage ($4.50), total $9.00
That doesn’t make sense to me, so I question the waitress, informing her I didn’t order two sides of linked sausage, and, oh, by the way, we got a total of six, besides.
She says: oh, contraire, Mr. Williams, a side of linked sausage is composed of only two links, so I put in two sides for you, to equal your order for 4 links. The other two links (of the six) came with your meal! And, with that wonderful explanation, she walks away.
Ok, just to insert how much of a genius I am: I didn’t notice the pancakes already came with two links. If I did, I would have only ordered a second pair of links. I also didn’t notice that a side of two links was $4.50.
It took a while for me to realize what had happened and how much of an idiot I am sometimes, but, the side order part of the many says you can either get 4 paddies, OR, 2 links. So, I believe I transposed the numbers, thinking if I ordered “4 links”, it was one side order, and not two sides of links. And, I’d thought that the links were the small skinny guys, not the HUGE FAT (TWICE THE DIAMETER OF MY LEFT TOE) TYPE OF SAUSAGE LINKS!!
Along with the genius of not seeing that the pancake ALREADY had two links coming with it.
Well, I was starting to get my shorts in a knot, and was just about to put a note on the back of my charge slip, saying I didn’t order two frigging plates of links, and BESIDES, If it already comes with two links, who in their right mind then orders another 4 links, for a total of six??
But, BFF Rick, calms me down, and says he distinctly remembers me ordering “four linked sausage.” And, besides, he tells me, it’s not up to the waitress to question the customer’s eating motives. If a customer wants an extra four links, what’s she supposed to say: “Oh, Mr. Williams, do you really need those four extra sausage?? I don’t think so, Mr. Chubby!”
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I calmed down, and left off my little note, and gave her my usual 3% tip. (Not really, it was 15%).
BUT, I learned my lesson! (I think)
(read the friggin menu!)
