Dr Copa

All day long while I was working around the yard I was thinking about how I wanted to take the wife out to eat supper tonight. We haven’t been out in a while (other than a fast food place) and I thought we were overdue. So I took her to the local Ruby Tuesday restaurant.

We ordered the Grand Sampler appetizer (substituted the spring rolls with cheese fries) and my wife had the Asian sauce flavored baby back ribs (full rack) and I ordered a combination plate of sirloin steak with fried shrimp. I was concerned that the fried shrimp might be too spicy-hot for my tastes because the menu indicated that there was some bayou seasoning in the batter, so I asked my waitress about that. I told her that I didn’t like spicy hot food. She assured me that the shrimp was not hot at all and guaranteed that if I didn’t like them that my meal would be free.

Guess what – they were hotter than the hot wings that came in the appetizer! My wife tried one and said the spices were burning her mouth!

So I ate all of my dinner except for the shrimp, and when the waitress came with the tab I told her that the shrimp were too hot for us to eat. Boy did her face turn ashen! She left the table and went to confer with her boss. When she came back she said that she would only charge me for the sirloin part of the meal, and not the shrimp part. Well I told her that was OK, but I was annoyed because she had promised me my whole meal would be free if I didn’t like the shrimp!