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Chaos and bean sprouts

On Soup Plantation (again):

Me: Want to go out for dinner tonight?
Wife: Sure. Where to?
Me: Well, it's Kids' Eat Free Night everywhere so the sky's the limit! Ha! Ruby's, Polly's, Chick-fil-A... Oh, we have that Soup Plantation coupon.
Wife: Soup Plantation, huh?
Me: Let's not go there though. That place stresses me out.
Wife: What?
Me: That whole place is a giant line.
Wife: It is not a giant line.
Me: It is a giant line. From the minute you walk in until the minute you leave, you're in line.
Wife: There's a dining room. You sit.
Me: Their "dining room" is just a line you sit in while unhappy people with large plates of buffet-quality lettuce queue behind you. You can feel their eyes carving into you like so much roasted turkey, rage beginning to boil over in their hearts because what they really want is a juicy, medium-rare steak and some peace but what they have is chaos and bean sprouts.
Wife: Huh. You know, you might be totally insane.
Me: Yah, but Soup Plantation is out.

Comments

  1. Norby on 2007-11-30 01:10:44 wrote: You’ve summed it up nicely. I can’t even imagine why you’d bother having/saving the coupon in the first place though. -//

  2. JGJones on 2007-11-30 01:33:31 wrote: It’s a secret fetish of his…whenever he want to torture himself…well he can do it on the cheap ;-)

  3. John on 2007-11-30 09:08:19 wrote: You caught me. No, this unavoidable doom has been inflicted upon me by my son’s school. He received a certificate for a free meal as a reward. But maybe I can smuggle something in… ;-)

  4. Norby on 2007-11-30 11:10:42 wrote: Bring a camera - share your misery with the world! -//

  5. s’mee on 2007-12-01 08:47:50 wrote: Can I get a witness? Amen to this description! lol

  6. Trula on 2007-12-11 19:49:04 wrote: LOL! this post cracked me up. I hace had this conversation with my husband!