Gloria: How great to hear from you again! Sounds like you and grandones are having an excellent time. I sure do have fun with Thomas. We have a squirrel who has worked our gutter mesh off and made himself a nest in the gutter! SIGH! It is right outside our bedroom so creepy to wake in the night and hear scratching and such. The cat just sits on the cedar chest and stares at the ceiling!
Jean: Do you get Good Friday off? Jack gets Good Friday and Monday April 5th as that is the day MLK was assassinated here. It is part of the union contract. In this case, it is great as that means Jack only has to take 4.5 vacation days and gets 10.5 days of vacation!
Boy did we have a BAD experience with Applebees last night. Don't know why we go there as we have trouble at every one we have tried here and we have tried 6 in the area, but we tried another one last night. Sat for 10 minutes with no drinks or anything, then someone asked if we had been waited on and we kind of growled no. He went back and told the dope who was supposed to have our table, 5 minutes passed and she still didn't come to the table so he got us drinks and Jack demanded to see the manager because he told the kid, she is NOT waiting on us. We saw him walk up to the manager and tell him and after another 5 minutes of no waitress and no manager we had had it and got up to leave. Jack walked over to the manager and told him off and said we wouldn't be back and the guy didn't even care, apologize or anything. I suggested coming back here to Bob Evans, but Jack wanted Applebees so we came to the one by our house. BAD DECISION! We sat there too, but were a little more patient because they were really busy. They had unbussed tables, food on the floor etc all over the place, which should have been a big whistle to "RUN DON'T WALK OUT OF THE RESTAURANT" but we stayed. She took our order (in her head nothing written down, which always makes me nervous), went around the corner and waited on another table, doing the same thing, taking the full order, food and all in her head. I was sure we were going to have a mess and Jack was going to pop his cork! When the food came, Jack had ordered shrimp and steak and they brought out popcorn shrimp. He asked to see a menu and said look, this is full sized shrimp. She said she thought they had run out, but she would go check. Well, he was fuming of course. I saw her talk to one of two managers on site and came back that they were out. He demanded to see a manager and basically told him off too and said we don't want the food. He said, "You don't substitute without giving the patron a chance to refuse." The manager took away the food (so now it is 8 pm and we have had no dinner) and I stopped the waitress and told her I wanted the check for the appetizer and drinks only as the manager had taken back our food. She was miffed but said ok and 10 minutes later here she comes with the bill. We had enough cash so I told Jack to pay by cash so we could get out of there. SHE HAD THE GALL TO STAND AT THE TABLE WITH HER HAND ON HER HIP WAITING FOR HER MONEY! Made Jack so mad, he plunked down a 10 and a 1 for a $10.35 bill and she grabbed it off the table and huffed off. So did we, came home and never did eat anything! I got online and found their website and took them to task online, so we will see if anything comes of it. If so, maybe we will get gift certificates and can use them in Vegas and see if it is any better there!
Well, need to go fold and put away my load of clothes.
Faye