No Restaurants -- I Get Angry December 23, 2012

No  More Restaurants  --  I Get Angry

 

December 23, 2012

 

     Went on a short errand to WalMart.  Afterwards, went to a familiar chain steak restaurant/buffet with a relative.  I paid no attention to the prices or menu.  When the bill was rung up before we were seated, it was over $25 and I had a fit. 

 

Steak Buffet Restaurant 

 

     This is an old restaurant, a chain which is located all over the south, nothing special.  Years ago, I went there a lot, in another state.  Why did I get so angry?  I demanded that we leave, even though I was not paying for the meal.  Why? 

 

     So my relative took me to a surprise restaurant in Waterford Lakes Shopping Center.  The menu was long and complicated with 100 choices of tiny sandwiches, as it was explained to me.  Each tiny sandwich was as cheap as you could get.  I got upset again.  Why?  Look at the reviews this restaurant got.  Everyone says it's great:

 

100 Montaditos Restaurant Site and Reviews

 

     I can only say that I don't want to be confronted with menus so long and complicated that I completely shut down.  Why?

 

     It turned out to be a ridiculous miniature sub, with some of the ingredients not even on the tiny thing.  I returned it to the counter to be corrected.  This all embarrassed and angered my relative.  What is causing my anger?

 

     It has to do with being bullied into liking something I truly don't like, like that sushi experience last month.

 

     At this time of my life I want to go to familiar affordable restaurants.  That is not too much to ask.  As a result of today, I am angry, hurt, and completely over the good feelings I had for my relative and for the holiday season.  Why?  I can't explain it.

 

     I just want to go to bed and wake up after Christmas is over.   I do not get any pleasure from eating where prices seem high or menus are complicated, even though the prices are very low. 

      Are these reactions related to future retirement or to restaurants in general? When I am over this anger, I will have to do some hard thinking about eating out again.

      I think it has something to do with my past experiences, so I'll have to think on my reactions, which are becoming frequent these days.

      It's time to go to the park to watch some nature after I turn off the Christmas music. Then I'll go get a burger for $1.00 at McDonalds.  I think I'm the only person who gets angry at restaurants.



 



Sushi--Not On My Activities List Ever

December 1, 2012

 

      First of all, my little goal of having a meal with a friend or with friends each week is going well.  However, Friday evening I met a good friend at a sushi restaurant.  She loves sushi.

 

 

     Personally, I would not choose such a restaurant willingly, but I was invited, and I like my friend, so...   It was so foreign, none of the items on the menu made any sense to me.  I don't eat raw food or food wrapped in brown plastic, and I don't like to think of how long the food preparer had handled the food just to get it to get it into those origami sausage shapes.

 

     My friend and I had a rather in-depth discussion of why I was averse to new foods.  The result was she found the one thing on the menu I might actually eat...tempura vegetable appetizer.

 

     There was a counter and seats where people were engrossed in watching grotesque things being prepared. It was supposed to be entertaining, the waiter explained patiently. 

 

 

       We became very involved in our conversation and our individual career trials and tribulations.  It was lovely.  When  the food appeared I found it hard to even look at her huge rectangular plate of make-believe food.  I know she could see it all over my face.   I'm never shy about blurting out my opinions.   May I just say that I had to request a fork, as if that was asking for a trained seal to be brought to the table.   Don't misunderstand; the waiter was excellent.  They just don't put forks on the table. 

 

     My plate was the size of a bread plate and contained five items, each one a "vegetable," if you can call one long string bean as one of the five items.  There was a slice of a sweet potato, something green, something maybe yellow, and a definite onion ring, and something else.   And I ate all of it. 

 

     Thank goodness the tempura coating was familiar in flavor. But wait, there is more.  By the time I drank 2 full teapots of tea, and we gathered our things to leave, this place was packed with every person in Baldwin park, including children eating this stuff.

 

     Outside, the sidewalk tables were just as packed except the family dogs were all sitting near the tables as well.  I am definitely living in my own little world.   My friend repeatedly asked why I wasn't excited to try new foods.  Let me say that this is never going on my retirement activities list. 

 

     I adore my friend, I adored our conversation, I definitely did not adore my meal.  As soon as I got home, I got ill, enough said.  Who invented this kind of restaurant, and why are people paying these prices for mystery food with mysterious ingredients and names?  It is obviously one of the most popular restaurants in the area. 

 

     If my good friend reads this, I hope she understands me well enough to know that I loved every minute of the meal, except the food.  

 

Note:  I am not criticizing the restaurant in any way. 

 

 

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