Continuing on the theme of 'Write what you know" that I began last week, I'd like to share some more thoughts.
When I talked about my experiences eating in restaurants, I spoke about high prices, inferior service and bad food. I also talked about waiting for a table, waiting for menus, waiting to place an order, waiting for the food to arrive, waiting for the check. In this post I'd like to talk about what I, the customer, am guilty of when eating out.
Sometimes I take too long to order. I often find typos on the menu. Sometimes I ask stupid questions of the server. Sometimes my food arrives and I don't like what they served me. Sometimes I send it back. Sometimes I complain about the service, or the prices, or the quality of the food. Sometimes I find errors on the check.
Sometimes I ask for my remaining food to be wrapped up and then I decide to include in the bag the rolls and butter left on the table. Sometimes I throw in some extra unused napkins. Sometimes I joke that we need salt and pepper at home and maybe I should help myself to the condiments.
All of this is the material for my cartoon gags. I use all of this, both real and imaginary.
The more I eat out, the more material I have to write what I know.
Any comments on this or last week's blog? Email me at: gagsbyhelene@gmail.com.
