Um, I can't go out because I have to stay home and clean the toilet
OK, this one wins the prize for lamest excuse ever:
My boyfriend's friend J just cancelled their plans for Thursday night because she has a life insurance physical the next morning and doesn't want to blow it with booze.
We so need new friends...
OK, it's still a great restaurant, but...
Recently my boyfriend and I had dinner at
Banjara, an Indian restaurant in the East Village. It's on the corner of First Avenue and 6th Street, and it's definitely a few notches above the other Indians on curry row.
We had a delightful meal, accompanied by a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc that was listed for about $35.
When the check came we realized that they'd forgotten to charge us for the wine, so we called the waiter over and told him.
You'd have thought we'd rescued his first-born son from a burning building. He gave us free desserts, free after-dinner drinks and a thousand thank-yous. In the end, the freebies he lavished on us were probably worth about as much as the bottle of wine. It got to the point where we wondered if he'd ever let us out of there.
A couple months later, my boyfriend and I had dinner at
Milos. For those of you who don't know it, it's a pretty high-end Greek restaurant that Zagat's describes as a "modern Midtown seafood temple where the prices are as high as the quality of the catch."
This time we ordered a $140 bottle of French white (I mention the price only because it's relevant to the story).
Sure enough, the check came and they'd left off the wine. After a brief crisis of conscience, our better natures won out, and we called the waiter over to point out the mistake.
He looked coolly at the bill, took it from my hand with a brief "sorry about that" and returned it five minutes later, wine included.
And that's it.
Now, I wasn't expecting him to fall at our feet in gratitude, and we'd already had dessert and after-dinner drinks so it wouldn't have made sense for him to offer us anything else, but don't you think he could have shown us a tiny bit of appreciation for the fact that we'd just saved him $140?
I'm just sayin'.
