After a pleasant afternoon geocaching we decided to eat out for dinner. Because a couple of our favorite haunts are not open on Sunday we settled for a third tier option, Chilis. They have that 2 for $20 thing going on which we had enjoyed at one in Statesboro, GA on our way back from Florida at Thanksgiving. This dining experience wasn’t as good as that one, but that is a whole ‘nother post.
While waiting for Zeke to bring our drinks, Donna spotted an application booklet on the table to join their E-mail Club. They ask for your birthday, so we figured maybe you get a free margarita or something on your special day. Trouble was we didn’t have anything to right write with, so we asked Zeke if he’d lend us a pen. We both filled one out and handed them and the pen back when Zeke brought our appetizer.
As we finished our desert Zeke asked if we wanted anything else, when we replied in the negative, he dropped off our check and disappeared. Trouble was, he didn’t leave us a pen. I eyeballed the receipt and noticed that it was that thin glossy stuff, almost like old time fax paper, and thought, I bet this is pressure sensitive. I grabbed the salad fork, which I hadn’t used, turned it backwards and test wrote the total on the *guest copy*, with the handle. It worked, it was a little light, kind of like I signed it in pencil, but fully legible.
Zeke returned a few seconds after I had finished filling out the charge slip and said, “Did I forget to leave you a pen?” “Yep,” I replied, “But not to worry, I signed it with the fork.” He was so stunned than he forgot to say thanks for dining with us or hurry back or whatever the corporate mandated server’s last line is.
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Hey Brian,
I was reading a web comic this week (unfortunately I can’t recall which one or would have attached the link.) and the main character says something like “I don’t know why I keep posting on my blog. I haven’t gotten a single comment in weeks” at which point his friend says “misspell a word”. Suddenly he has hundreds of comments because the internet masses will not stand for bad grammar or the misspelling of words. (I misspelled grammar but I fixed it. 🙂
I tried to leave you a comment but for reasons unknown, the evil forces of the internet would not allow it. You have the following sentence in your most recent Zeke post.
“Trouble was we didn?t have anything to right with…”
Yeah, I know – “let him with no spelling errors cast the first stone”. That is surely not me. I rarely even run the spell checker. But since you normally have higher standards than myself I thought I would pass this on to you.
At this point I meant to include a pun using the statement “put a fork in it” but I am drawing a blank.
I hate it when I have to point out the puns myself because that means they aren’t really funny but just in case you missed it, here we go. I suppose this would be considered a meta-pun though. “drawing a blank” with a fork – HA!