{"id":1299,"date":"2009-11-22T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:47","slug":"list-monday-november-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/list-monday-november-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"List – Monday November 23nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n10 Things That Make Me Anxious While Dining At A Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. Being seated near the bathroom, kitchen, bus station or front door.<\/p>\n

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2. Being perceived as high maintenance when I refuse to sit near the bathroom, kitchen, bus station or front door.<\/p>\n

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3. Not being sure if I’ve clearly conveyed to my server that I’m cool, because I used to be a server too.<\/p>\n

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4. Anticipating the water up-sell: “Would you like sparkling water, still, or tap” (read: tap is for turds)<\/p>\n

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5. Sending the server away because I’m not ready to order then fretting and fretting that they won’t come back.<\/p>\n

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6. Wondering if the server likes me, thinks I’m funny, and is impressed by my knowledge of vernacular like “86’ed” and “four-top”.<\/p>\n

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7. Watching a bar-tender handle cash then garnish my drinks without washing his hands. Wondering if the bar-tender has ever been to a strip club or watched “Locked Up Abroad”. If he did he’d know that cash and food should not touch each other.<\/p>\n

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8. Calculating how dim the lights are on the Low Lights = Unclean Dining Area scale. Calculating how much it really matters to me if I’m waiting for Truffle Fries or Lobster Mac and Cheese. Realizing it doesn’t matter to me as much as I know it should.<\/p>\n

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9. Getting up to go to the bathroom, not paying attention and smashing into a server who’s carrying two bowls of Linguini Vongole. He goes down, the pasta’s everywhere, then the busboy rushes over to try and help and he slips, tries to grab a table to steady himself and crashes to the ground pulling the entire contents of the table behind him. The server and the busboy are on the ground, moaning and clutching their backs, there’s food and broken dishes covering the floor. Everyone in the restaurant is looking at me. I still desperately have to go to the bathroom.<\/p>\n

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10. Telling a joke loudly to be heard over the din of a busy dining room then dropping the punch-line-essential F-word just as the room quiets down inexplicably for a moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    10 Things That Make Me Anxious While Dining At A Restaurant   1. Being seated near the bathroom, kitchen, bus station or front door.   2. Being perceived as high maintenance when I refuse to sit near the bathroom, kitchen, bus station or front door.   3. Not being sure if I’ve clearly … Continue reading “List – Monday November 23nd”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}