Categories: uncategorized
Tags: friends
Date: 15 September 2006 13:18:26
Three friends and I meet for dinner about once a month - we've been doing it for about a year now, and it's truly a blessing... and something I always look forward to. Last night we met for one of our dinners...
there was a bit of confusion about location (one girl thought it was next week) but we finally were sitting around the table... dinner and converstaion was good - I truly enjoy our time together.
After we paid the bill, we continued to talk... about stuff. Nice conversation... At one point I looked across the table and both women started to scream. They were looking at the floor outside our booth, pointing, and were yelling! I, too, looked... and saw a squirrel! VERY surprising to see a squirrel... and he looked very surprised himself. There was a little iddy-biddy squrrel inside this nice restaurant... and the manager, waiters, and bus-boys were trying to non-chalantly capture this rodent and take it outside. Our whole restaurant was all a twitter... it was hysterical. We were laughing so hard... one man said (i think he was a manager) that it was his last night - and of course this would happen on his watch on his last night...
There was a little old lady who was obviously terrified and disgusted... but she also told the staff not to hurt the squirrel.
The man at the next table was giving us a running commentary (the small animal got into the space between booths... and the waiters were trying to excavate him) ... a play-by-play if you will.
The booth was disassembled... (guests were reseated, of course)... there was a broom and dustpan... a blanket to catch small visitor... at one point they thought the animal got into the wall (somehow).
Not sure how it ended... we had to leave before the event was fully resolved.. and we were tired from laughing so hard. Hopefully he's at home, online, blogging to his acorn-eating buddies about the night he scared all of the humans at that restaurant....
Glad we chose that restaurant - we were treated to dinner AND a show :)