The day was uneventful and full of the usual same old routines. Justin went to school and meetings and I went off my job until 9:30. It did not feel like the festive, flavorful day that Cinco De Mayo should be. When I arrived home from work to find Justin in his usual spot at the kitchen table working on homework (a.k.a reading baseball stats on ESPN) we both declared that we were indeed starving and deserved a night out in honor of the aforementioned holiday. Now for those of you that are accustomed to our frugal ways you will not be surprised to learn that we headed off to TGI Fridays for the following reasons.
1) We have a "give me more stripes" rewards card through them and therefore we were emailed a free appetizer for Cinco De Mayo.
2) They have an amazing deal going on where all of their full sized sandwiches and salads are just 5 dollars.
3) In there, "It's always Friday", and that is just the kinda scene we were in the mood for.
We settled ourselves in close proximity to the bar so that we could be close to the t.v's to see what game they had on. It was hockey on every t.v. There was an NBA playoff game on and we were watching hockey. That is Minnesota for you. We ordered the usual waters to drink. After brushing off the deflated look the waitress gave us after ordering non-alcoholic beverages on this Spanish holiday, in the bar area nonetheless, we made things worse by presenting her with our coupon for our free appetizer. Lets just say that we did not see her again for 20 minutes. I know this because I was staring at my watch and giving Justin updates every 5 minutes that went something like this, "I can not believe it has been x minutes and she is not back. This is unacceptable service and I should know since I have so much serving experience...........". Poor Justin, this went on until she finally returned after our appetizer (that was brought to us by someone else) had been long gone and our beverages were no more then ice cubes. We gave her our order which was one salad to share. Take that server girl.
In all honesty I was irritated, and that is putting it nicely. Her service to us should be no less just because we are trying eat out on a budget. Our meal was finally brought to us, yet again by someone else, and we were ready for it, forks in hand.
Now this is the part of our story where a little thing called Karma comes into play.
The night had not been great so far. It was almost 11p.m. and we were just eating our dinner, but just then a funny thing happened. I found something in my food, yet again. If you do not know what I am talking about, please refer back to this post. It was an expiration date sticker, and to make things even better the expiration date was yesterday. Now to us this was no big deal. It was a only a piece of paper and lets face it, we eat way more questionable things out of our own fridge all the time. But when that "waitress" came to ask us how our meal was we let her know that there was a sticker in it. For the first time all night I saw a glimpse of humanity spark from her as she apologized and went to get things taken care of. Right after she left there was an announcement made that Bingo would be starting soon. We LOVE Bingo. We suck at Bingo but we love it still. A guy came over and asked us if we wanted to play, and when we discovered that it was free, of course we were in.
Our waitress came back and explained that our salad would be of no charge and gave us a coupon for a free appetizer or dessert on our next visit. We were still hungry so we ordered another salad. By this time, bingo was starting, we were eating a fresh new sticker free salad and the world seemed right again.
Then Justin won bingo. Thats right my friends, Karma. And what was the prize? Cold, hard, cash. It would've been 20 bucks but another person called Bingo as well so we won 10 dollars. We were happy as could be with our great meal and prize money, could the night get any better? Yes. Justin won round 2 of Bingo. We couldn't believe it. We won another coupon for a free appetizer or dessert. We played 3 more rounds and even though we didn't win, it no longer mattered. Like a 4 year old on a soccer team, we were just playing for fun.
Lets do a little recap shall we?
Waters- Free
Appetizer- Free
Salad- 5 dollars plus sticker makes it free
New Salad- 5 dollars (I don't think she should've charged us for a replacement salad but I was beyond caring when we got our bill)
That makes a total of 5 dollars.
But wait...........
Free appetizer for sticker in salad
10 dollars in Bingo winnings
Free appetizer for Bingo winning
That makes a pretty nice profit if you ask me!
So don't worry kids, if you find yourself stuck on Cinco De Mayo with an awful waitress who shuns you for being cheap and refuses to refresh your measly waters, Karma will step in and strategically place a sticker in your food and then it will go the extra mile and allow you to win Bingo twice.
Thank you Karma and happy belated Cinco De Mayo!
*Note from Justin*
He is sorry he forgot to wish you all a happy Star Wars Day....
May the 4th be with you.
Get it?
I Spy something in my food.
B I N G O
Winner Winner!
2 comments:
Ask Justin why Star Wars day is May 4th.
And is he totally pissed at Manny Ramierez?
Justin's comment is so......Justin.
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