dear diary (go lose some weight) 10/27/2008

dear diary,
yesterday was a good day. in fact, it was an amazing day. we took the girls to the mountains to pick apples, and enjoy the vast array of fall foliage and then on to asheville to have dinner with my wife's aunt and uncle. now, my wife's aunt and uncle are incredible people...so much so that i have just adopted them as my aunt and uncle as well. so what better way to top off a perfect day by eating dinner with great people...right??? what could go wrong??? anything??? or so i thought. once my aunt realized we were going to be in the area, she had planned a dinner at her new favorite restaraunt (cheddar's) and was thrilled to take us there and watch us experience our first time at said restaraunt. we walked in, and the atmosphere was great. we were seated right away, and now starting to feel the hunger pains set in. our waitress comes to greet us, and looked more pissed off at the fact we were there taking up her booth than anything, but took our drink orders none the less. it wasn't until about 45 minutes later that we realized..."hey, where is our food???" we kept waiting for our waitress to come over and explain to us what's going on, but no. in fact, she avoided us all together. when our food finally came out (about an hour later), it was cold. now...i'm upset. i asked several employees (including our waitress) to speak with a manager...after 3 attempts he came by. he bought our meal, which he should have and gave us $25 of food vouchers which he should have as well. i can be somewhat mean at times, and i know this so last night's free meal was no exception. however, the people sitting behind us overheard the rant. and later we find out they are friends of our beloved waitress. as we were leaving i noticed i kept getting the stink eye from them. i didn't really acknowledge them...at first. i proceeded out the door with my uncle, and my 6 year old daughter faith. and happened to notice that 2 of the teenage daughters of the table sitting behind us follows us outside too (to which i still have not acknowledged them). as they finish doing whatever it is they were doing, the went back inside, only to stop at the door...turn around, and tell me in the most annoying 17 year old angst ridden voice "oh and by the way sir? the food here is amazing and maybe you would have gotten better service if you weren't such a dick". (mind you my 6 year old was at my hip). the fire raged inside me so much so that i shook. and the only thing i could think of (in my head) was wow...you're fat. so i took it and ran. "why don't you go lose weight", i told her. she stood there dumbfounded. my uncle was speechless. partly because he had turned his hearing aid down about 45 minutes ago after getting tired of us complaining about our horrid service. miss piggy turned and went back inside, only to come back out to finish her nonsense of verbal assaults to me, to which i just smiled at her and walked away. i won that interaction. she didn't know what to say to me. she's never been called fat before by some complete stranger. she's never met me before, and now she probably wishes she never had. oh well...i slept like a baby last night.

i love you,
maynard