Blog Number 183

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

After church this morning we were invited out to lunch with 2 other families.  One of the families were the ones we had over for our poker night two weeks ago.  We decided on Double Dave's Pizza hoping that it would not be crowded.  We had been there twice in the past but only went there because we had free coupons.  When the wife opened up her checking account that she uses for grocery money, they gave us 4 adult buffet coupons.  The pizza there is OK but nothing to write home about really.  They do have Peperoni Rolls™ there though that are quite tasty.

I had made my last trip to the buffet and had a piece of pizza on my plate along with a piece of desert pizza (chocolate chip cookie dough pizza).  We were just sitting around talking when the daughter asked if I would go up to the buffet and get her a piece of the desert pizza.  I asked her to bring me her plate as I intended to give her my piece since I was full.  As she went to her booth (all the kids were sitting together in a booth right across from us) my wife told me that I had to get a fresh plate and not reuse the daughters.  I was aware of this of course since we have been to countless buffets over the years and the "always use a clean plate" rule is quite universal I assure you.

I thought about this for a moment and came to the following conclusion.  My wife had to think before she spoke (in the second or two after I told the daughter to bring me her plate and the moment my wife reminded me of the clean plate rule).  She had to weigh the follow two possibilities in her mind...

1. My husband is being nice and giving our daughter his only piece of desert pizza. - OR -
2. My husband (though he has been to dozens of buffets before and though he has never before forgot the clean plate rule) obviously has forgotten this universal truth - AND - it is my job to inform him of this BEFORE he even gets up and walks toward the buffet with a used plate.  No, I must tell him now, before the daughter even returns with her plate and I can see for SURE that he is not really going to do option 1 (where I give the kid my desert pizza).  I must tell him this in front of friends and I cannot wait until I have an indication of his plans one way or the other.

So anyway, I pointed out that I knew about the clean plate rule and that I was indeed just going to give her the pizza off of my plate.  She said, "Oh."  That's it!  No apology or nothing!  Hence this blog entry.  Double Dave's Pizza was not really that great again but the bill only came to $23 so I guess all in all it was not that bad.  We did have a good time so I don't have anything else to complain about.  I will just make sure I voice my intentions verbally so that next time she does not have to guess at my intentions.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon