We
went to the Business district for lunch again today. Eating lunch and dinner
both seems to be taking it out of us. Last year we powered through the seven
weeks of pasta without issue, until almost the very end. I even lost weight
last year. This year, after only a few visits, we’re starting to see the
cracks. I think we planned wrong. I received a few Olive Garden gift cards last
month for my birthday, and we went to Olive Garden, like, twice in the last
three months. What I’m saying is, we did not have a good absence of pasta in
our diet to begin with, and now, things are already a struggle. WE WILL PERSEVERE ! (gees, with that and my supporting of American jobs from the last
post, maybs I should throw my hat in for the Democratic candidate).
The
host was a dude who looked like Moby. Remember Moby? I don’t really. He showed
me to the table and demonstrated the ziosk, clearly he’s not a blog reader. He
tried to get me to sign up for the eclub to get coupons. Please, I don’t need
no stinkin’ coupons, I have a Pasta Pass.
This
Olive Garden that my wife and I are going to for lunch is hard for me to pin
down. Yesterday I said it was in the Asian district and that there were lots of
businesses around. But today it was mostly families. Almost exclusively
families. What a weird Olive Garden.
I
asked my server, who looked like a more handsome, un-handicapped Walter Jr.
from Breaking Bad, what paired well with the Asiago Garlic Alfredo. He recommended
the Crispy Shrimp Fritta with a long noodle, the Fettuccine. I informed him
that I had just had the Fettuccine yesterday, and so I’d do the Spaghetti. He
said, “Yeah that’s just as good. There is no difference to me, just long
noodles and short noodles.” I like the way you think healthy Walter Jr. We need
to get rid of classifications, stop labeling what kind of noodles they are and
just let them be noodles. If we can do it with noodles we can do it with
people. Race should not matter. Everyone should get the same opportunities.
Stop seeing race people! (and vote for Bullinger). The Asiago Garlic Alfredo
was delicious, I highly recommend it.
When
we gave the Pasta Pass to the server, he was super impressed, and said
something like, “Yeah they sold out in like five minutes.” One second my friend.
One second. That’s the power of the pass. He brought by the Pasta Pass after
clearing out bill and said, “That is awesome. I gotta get me one of those.”
Good luck Healthy Walt Jr., good luck.
Visit
4:
Monetary
value: $32.89
Total:
$121.32
When
Ariel got home from work we didn’t rush immediately to Olive Garden. Like I
said, she’s feeling the pain already. Instead, we sat on the couch and watched
Netflix. I hadn’t watched Netflix in over a week. That’s a big deal for me. I
was out of town, and then the Never Ending Pasta Bowl started, as did my blog.
I have just been too busy. We’re re-watching Parks and Recreation. I love that
show. More specifically, I love Ron Swanson and April Ludgate. If you haven’t watched
that show, watch it. The first season isn’t WONDERFUL, but if you get through
those six episodes, it gets 100 times better.
When
we did go to Olive Garden it was pretty late for us… like seven-ish. The place was
busy, we had to wait for like 10 minutes. When I walked up to the hostess
podium I noticed a Never Ending Pasta Bowl BINGO card. “What is thaaaat?” I
said, awestruck to the hostess. Apparently, the servers have a BINGO promotion,
where if they can up sell people who buy the Never Ending Pasta Bowls, they can
win something. How sweet is that?
When
we sat down, we noticed it was pretty busy. The crowd was not our usual old
folks, but a younger group. Because it was busy we weren’t greeted right away.
But in no time at all, Princess Jasmine swooped in and said, “Your server will
be right with you, but can I get you some drinks? Some Dr.Pepper?” She’s good.
We
were seated next to a couple of nice Lesbos. I don’t actually know they’re nice,
I just try to quote Juno as frequently as possible. And, I’m not 100 percent
sure, but we might have actually been seated between a couple of couples of nice Lesbos (Word
auto corrects to make Lesbos capitalized, I don’t know why, but I like it).
These
nice Lesbos were clearly on a date. They were laughing outrageously, and ogling
one another like Sean Williams Scott ogled women back in ’99. They did the
wedding toast with their wine glasses, where you intertwine your arms, and then
proceeded to try and toss stuff down one another’s cleavage. They were both
eventually successful. I usually pay too much attention to people around me,
especially while writing this blog, but I was directly across from these girls,
and they were being completely outrageous, and didn’t seem to care who saw.
Our
actual server had a man bun, but not a full, luxurious man bun. It was one
where he’d shaved the sides of his hair down and now had a small samurai top
knot. I asked him what he needed for his
BINGO card and ended up ordering the Tri-Colored Penne with Traditional Meat
Sauce and Italian Sausage (the up sell being the sausage). The Penne didn’t particularly
do anything for me, but it was fine.
The
general manager, Jean, came over and talked to us about the passes. She said
she has three for four passes come through each day. Her theory is that people
from around here are very, I think she used the word “motivated,” and that’s
why out of 700 restaurants, she probably gets a few more people with passes
than the other restaurants do. She also said that when she told her regional
manager that we’d won our passes on Twitter, that he told her she’d been
scammed. But Jean had apparently looked it up and seen that people really did
win through Twitter.
We
didn’t see much of Man Bun, it was busy and the team work tonight was flawless.
As I said, Jasmine got our drinks. There was another woman, who used to be a
super nice hostess, who brought out our meals. Another guy brought us drink refills,
and then Man Bun helped us with the check.
When
we left I just wanted to say, “Bye couple of nice Lesbos, thanks for making it
fun.”
Visit
5:
Weight
fluctuation today: + 0.4 LBS
Total:
+ 2.8 LBS
Monetary
value: $31.27
Total:
$152.59
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