30 June 2011

How Many Boxes?

This one takes the cake.  It's probably one of my favorite restaurant stories to date.

It's another wonderful day at the restaurant and I have a wonderful party of seven.  It's getting to be the end of their meal and I've started clearing plates.  Noticing that there is food left on some plates, I ask if anyone needs a box.

One lady speaks up, saying she needs one.  Then another girl says she needs one too.  I wait for a moment but no one else wants one.

"Okay, so I'll grab those two boxes and be right back."

But the first woman stops me.  "No no, we don't need two boxes.  She needs one and I need one."

Hmmm...what is my face doing?  And how do I respond to that?

"Right," is what I go with.  But the woman still feels the need to explain.

"Well we don't need two.  We just need one each."

Fantastic.  I'm beyond words at this point and I'm sure that if I stay much longer, she's just going to keep going and I'm not going to be able to stop myself from laughing or saying something stupid.

"Okay.  I'll be right back."

One plus one still equals two...right?

2 comments:

Candace Castor said...

That's what I thought too!
Maybe she went to a different school than were used to!? haha

anne said...

haha. What an idiot. :)