"She Looks Like a Dog!"

Back many years ago now when I was very much younger and married. We as a family would go out to eat rarely what with four children and being the only one working at that time. So when we did go out it was a big occasion.

This one time after saving up for the night out we arrive at the restaurant. It was the usual you wait to be seated and the hostess tells you your waitress will be with you shortly. Everything was going rather well what with having four young children at the time. Our youngest was about four at the time (he will be thirty seven next month) and the oldest was nine.

Our waitress arrives to take out order. So far so good it seems this is going to be a nice night out for the whole family. Our order is taken and as the waitress is walking a way our youngest son stands up in his chair and starts saying in a rather loud voice, "She looks like a dog!" Talk about wanting to crawl under the table and hide.

My wife says to him no she doesn't. Does that shut him up? NO! He says equally as loud again "Yes she does, she looks like a dog!" That goes on for several minutes. Of course everyone else can hear him as well as the poor young lady who is our waitress. I try to get him to stop saying that she looks like a dog. Finally we get him to quiet down and stay quiet the rest of the meal.

We ate in silence and as quickly as we could and left soon after the meal was over. Yes, I left the young lady a very good tip and apologized for my son's statements. Did we ever go back to that restaurant? No, and to tell the truth I can't even remember the name of it. Guess because I wanted to put that night behind me.

Oh, and no the waitress did not look like a dog or for that matter any other animal that I could imagine. She was rather attractive which made my son's saying she looked like a dog even worse.

It was a long time before we ventured out to another restaurant again.