The cost

I have realized that in recent months I just have not had time to blog! I'm getting out freebies and things, but nothing personal. I know some of you really like to read my personal posts, as well as other great finds. I have moved toward twittering these things instead of blogging them. Isn't it odd how our habits transition with technology?

So, I thought I would share this one with you from last night.



Hubby and I both got a packet of birthday coupons....most of them are $8 to $10 off a main meal! However, our ticket said only one coupon for table. So, we went in there and asked indicating we could sit at different tables to both get our free meal. They said we could not do that even! I was like...what! That's what we get for being honest. We could have walked in there, sat on opposite sides of the room, and got our free meals, but because we asked first, we did not get away with it. I was not happy, so instead of ordering an appetizer, drinks, etc. just to run up our bill so we could pay them something, like I would have done because of our own ethics, we ordered waters and split the free meal! If we had not ordered fries which were extra, we would have paid less.

Our bill came to the .99 cents for fries and .67 cents for tax, which equalled $1.66! How crazy is that to eat a meal for $1.66! We almost always split our meal anyway, so we were satisfied with our meal. Just think, now we can go back and do that to them again!

I explained to our (unfortunate to get us) waiter that the owner should know that by not allowing us to use both coupons, we were intentionally spending less money. That should he have shown us the kindness, we would have shown him the kindness. I think that often people are so directed at seeing the principles that they forget to look at the situation outside of the box.

Our waiter returned with a comment that the other restaurants that provided us coupons would not let us get away with using both coupons, to which I replied that we would now just have to go try it at each and every restaurant and blog the results!

Get this! Our waiter returned with a comment like "no one will read it." Hubby and I just looked at each other and cracked up laughing! Hubby told him "you have no idea." Goodness, why do people assume that everyone is just a nobody? What if I were a reporter or someone from a famous food critic blog?

So, here I am, blogging about my restaurant experience at Beef 'O' Bradies in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I also shared my experience on Facebook, which has more local people on it that this blog. People should know what word of mouth can do for a business. Oh, however, the service is good and the food is good at the restaurant. I cannot say anything bad about that. We did give our waiter a $5 tip, which was more than the food! How funny is that!

I've often thought about starting a new blog and being an anonymous food critic for our city. I think it would be something fun to do, but then I stop myself because I just don't have the time.




What is wrong with this picture? $1.66 for our dinner and $27.75 for a movie and popcorn? Our world is turned upside down, isn't it? We saw The Proposal and just loved the movie. It is hard to find good, clean movies and this one was so. It made us laugh out loud and had a great plot, complete with the beginning, middle, and end. I would love to see a sequel to it to watch their marriage progress.