Tues Aug 6, 2002 - 10:30am
Shame Morpheus was with me or I would of dropped a tissue or something....ha
So we met at Sushi Samba which I love, but unfortunately there was rather an annoying wait staff last night. First of all we had the pissed off waiter who was very angry that we were sat in HIS section AFTER we'd gotten drinks from the bar. He wanted us just to order from him, clearly to get the tips but you know what honey, you'd better be quicker than that, find us, seat us and then we'll gladly give you our order. Of course when Beth arrived she gave him her order, but he was still angry, then when Logan ordered and we asked him to bring the drinks to our table he got even more pissed off and told us that we should probably just pay for Beth's and that Logan should order his beer outside...well then!!
Then once outside we had the most crap table waiter EVER. He was just a pig, I asked him what Specials they were? He's like..."I don't think there is any", so of course I'm like well IS THERE OR ISN'T THERE? Make up your mind dickhead. God what an idiot. We then waited for ages for our Edamame, then ages again for our wine. Clearly this guy was having a bad evening, bad day, whatever, maybe just a bad life.
It was still great to see Beth and Logan though, we had fun.
I decided yesterday afternoon to walk down to Western Beef to stock up my fridge, which is desperately needed as there's like NO FOOD at all in there. Now the thing is with Western Beef over on 14th Street (Meat Packing District) is that it's dead cheap, but they're is a price for it's convenience and good value. Basically it's full of very very scary people, that look like they want to kill you in a most horrible way. So the thing to do is try very hard to avoid them, which when your trying to maneuver one of their ancient shopping trolleys, is very hard as I always manage to get the ones with dodgy wheels which when pushed forward actually go crab-style, which then invariably slides right into the person next to me. Oh joy.
So you can imagine my dilemma once in Western Beef. Also you always have to remember that even though it's hot as a bastard outside, you really need to be wearing a sturdy bra, or workout top because believe me girls, regardless of how small your titties may be, your gonna get the nipple freeze going on, cos it's really cold in that meat section and the guys in there just love it when a woman comes in.
So not only am I trying to maneuver a dodgy trolley, I'm trying to do it with one arm, while my other arm is draped across my chest in a painful manner because my frozen nipples are stabbing at my arm....oh joy AGAIN.
Also the aisles in this store are so thin that's it's practically impossible to walk down one with trolley, I generally just leave my trolley at one end and gather my goods, but alas nobody else thinks of that, so you get a Mexican fucking stand-off every time I go in there. Which is generally by either a Puerto-Rican and yes probably a Mexican, both not wanting to move, with me oblivious to their presence, stood right between them, trying to pick out which yoghurt I want, the fat free, or the low-fat vanilla??
Then the aisle lines to the check-out counter are just a joke, because they slope down to the check-out desk, yes they slope, so the fucking dodgy trolleys, if not gripped tightly, will start to roll and in my case hit the back of a rather large black lady, right in the ass.....OH FUCKING JOY AGAIN AND AGAIN!!
I swear to get out of there WITHOUT being cursed at, is not only lucky it's quite near impossible. Always happens to me but then again the check-out girls are quite nice and they generally tell other customers to fuck-off if they get rowdy.
It's definitely an experience but for $107 for enough meat and veg to feed the whole of my apartment floor, it's worth it.
So what else, well I have a nasty ingrowing hair, which is driving me nuts and also a small fruit fly that keeps zipping past my head, I'm gonna kill that thing right after I finish this site, then I'm off to workout and sunbathe, because my friends it's beautiful out there, yes fresh as well, we can finally breathe.