Friday, March 6, 2009

ill gotten gains?

so today . . . i took a banana from sizzler. i hope it wasn't stealing . . .

we found a sizzler in our area that has a great lunch special. on monday thru friday until 4:00 you can choose from a list of entrees with one side dish, one trip to the salad bar, and a drink--all for $7.99! so since i have friday afternoons off, sometimes we eat lunch there in the middle of the afternoon. then we don't have to eat much for dinner. it is kind of like practice for when we retire . . .

so i ordered a 6 oz. steak and a soda, and rollie paid (because that is the natural order of things.) they gave me a plate and i headed to the salad bar. i love the salad bar, but only if there are garbonzo beans, and there were! i started with just a small amount of lettuce. i've learned that if i put too much lettuce on my plate to begin with, then by the time i put all the toppings on, stuff starts falling off when i try to mix it all up. so i put just enough lettuce on the bottom that i can call it a salad. and it has to be iceberg lettuce, because have you noticed how hard it is to stab a fork into any other kind? anyway, i added the requisite garbonzo beans, peas, carrots, cheese, sunflower seeds and ranch dressing. and then i saw the fruit . . .

i'm not a big fruit eater, but i like bananas. and the bananas at the salad bar were perfect--just a tinge of green on the peel. so i took one. it is ok that i took it, because it was a part of the salad bar that i had paid for. but i knew i had a whole plate of salad and a 6 oz. steak on it's way, not to mention unlimited soda. so when i took it, i was pretty sure i would be too full to eat it. but i took it anyway.

my salad was good, my steak was delicious! there was no way i could eat that banana in the restaurant. i was way too full! but i really wanted it. i didn't want to leave it and have it thrown away--it was a really good banana--i could tell! and i certainly couldn't put it back on the salad bar. so i did the only thing i could do--i hid it under my sweater and took it home . . .

and several hours later, i ate it. and it was really good!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You stole the banana! Ummm....