I had dinner recently with a friend in a rather posh restaurant where everybody seems to order prawns. At least that's what I immediately noticed on all the tables within my view. I have this bad habit of spying on what other people eat, mostly to help me find out what looks good. All right, I am also just a bit nosy! So, we too ordered King prawns with garlic butter as starter.
The prawns arrived, a beautiful sight of artistically 'constructed' pile of prawns dripping with aromatic butter, a lemon 'basket' on the side, and crisp courgette butterflies. Half way through it, I noticed at a nearby table a well dressed woman, well off too I bet (wearing more jewellery than she ought to), struggling hard with her knife and fork, painstakingly trying to pry off the shells of her prawns, while I was eating mine with fingers of both my hands, posh restaurant or not.
When she happened to pause for a momentary rest with so much struggle, I raised my hands with the half striped prawn, grinned and winked at her. With quick and good humour, accompanied with an enormous sigh and smile, she winked back, threw her knife and fork on the table, grabbed
and attacked the prawn with her hands.
When she happened to pause for a momentary rest with so much struggle, I raised my hands with the half striped prawn, grinned and winked at her. With quick and good humour, accompanied with an enormous sigh and smile, she winked back, threw her knife and fork on the table, grabbed
and attacked the prawn with her hands.
I go to a restaurant to enjoy eating food, not to stare at it and fight with it, right? That little episode quite made my night. I have done my good deed of a girl scout for the day, and it compensated somewhat for my date's not very interesting account of his recent financial combat in the stock exchange.
My friend Abbaren just added the following:
A man walked by a restaurant and saw his good friend Mulla inside devouring his food with both his hands instead of a knife and fork. Shocked, the friend went inside and asked, "Mulla why are you eating your food with two hands?"
"Because I haven't got three," responded the hungry Mulla!
My friend Abbaren just added the following:
A man walked by a restaurant and saw his good friend Mulla inside devouring his food with both his hands instead of a knife and fork. Shocked, the friend went inside and asked, "Mulla why are you eating your food with two hands?"
"Because I haven't got three," responded the hungry Mulla!
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