Underpass Adventures and Benihana Bust

I’m exhausted but want to leave each of you with either some good night humor or something to make you smile and laugh first thing in the morning.
I finally checked into my hotel at 6:30pm Dallas time this evening. I was exhausted, tired, and hungry. Heather and I had decided that we’d get dinner together after running a few errands. She needed to fill a prescription at CVS and I had to get a manicure since having black nails isn’t attractive for meetings. (In case you missed it earlier, my black pen exploded mid sentence while I was working on the flight.) What I didn’t realize, was that the CVS and manicure trip required crossing eight lanes of intersection traffic, walking under an underpass, and hiking through the grass. As background, the DFW airport is flat out of cars today. Therefore, no one was able to rent a car since one of our coworkers forgot to book a rental car until today. The hike definitely resulted in some honks, laughs, and comic relief we desperately needed after a long day. Oh, and the manicure was $7. I kid. you. not. I tipped the poor girl $7 for her 30 minute effort! So, I leave you with this picture. 🙂
 

After our great adventure, food was no longer an option. Furthermore, we only had ONE choice unless we wanted Jack in the Box. The only restuarant within walking distnace of our hotel is the Benihana. Therefore, we hapilly decided to head that way and grab a quick bite at the sushi bar. Well, this ended up being an epic fail. Evidently, we were speaking a foreign language tonight because this was my face an HOUR after ordering our sashimi appetizer. Please, keep in mind that sashimi equals raw which equals no cooking time.

Yes, our waitress somehow lost our order (even though the restaurant was half empty) and then proceeded to present us with a sashimi salad instead of the sampler. The sashimi salad was NOT sashimi over a bed of greens. It was more like Texas’ attempt to merge as much mayonaise as possible with iceberg lettuce an some raw fish. *blek* After that was quickly refused we REORDERED our sashimi sampler and ordered 2 brown rice rolls, rainbow and eel. Now, insert thirty more minutes of laughter between Heather and I over the fact that EVERYONE else was being served except us and the poor sushi chefs kept offering us random food like edamame. Finally, after an hour and a half we received 2 bowls of brown rice and our sashimi sampler. Two bowls of brown rice? Maybe my New Yawk accent doesn’t translate down here and rainbow and eel roll rolls off my tongue sounding like brown rice roll? Oh wait, I DON’T HAVE A NEW YORK ACCENT BECAUSE I”M FROM THE SOUTH!

This time around I couldn’t even stop laughing for the picture to turn out. I really can’t say much more about this evening other than the fact that Heather and I haven’t laughed so hard together in the eight months i’ve known her. Maybe this was really a team bonding exercise in disguise and we were on candid camera somewhere. 🙂

I’m exhausted and am hitting the sheets with a smile on my face. Because after being awake for 20 hours I think i’m a bit delirious.

 
 


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