Do you all have a Chili's restaurant you've patronized in your area, if so you'll know where I'm coming from if not you missing out a some pretty good food for the most part. Not just good food, but good Margarita's and Beer and a lot of rustic tile and decor to look at.
I've ate at Chili's more times that I can count, many a lunch at Chili's with co-workers and clients alike. Chili's has always been a favorite of a lot of business lunches and friends getting together for a quick bite to eat during a busy day, as well as meeting with old friends.
As most of you know my younger brother has been visiting and we've had a few lunches out at different places where he might now have dined while in Iowa, and today Chili's was one of those stops. We neither were all that hungry, but a bite thirsty so we ordered off the appetizer side of the menu and had a couple of draft beers to accompany our choices. I'm a sucker for Chili's classic nacho's which really aren't anything like your typical nacho's but cleaner and easier to eat in my opinion, so that's what I ordered. Dave just had the Queso dip and chips and it came with salsa. Now like I said it had been a while, but not that long since my last visit with the boys and I was indeed surprised that chips and salsa was no longer complimentary! Our waitress claimed to have worked there for 3 years and also claimed they had charged for them ($2.99) for at least that long....................bull puckie! Maybe me and the boys had a great waiter or waitress last time in and just gave use the chips and salsa, but I'm here to tell you we did not get charged. The waitress also added that it was due to the current recession per Chili's nationally, wow it's even hit the chips in the Mexican restaurants.
Now like I said we also had a couple of draft beers and while we were waiting for our apps we drank a draft to get started. Now as the appetizers came out my glass was just getting empty and a fresh one was needed, but as I took that last swallow I noticed the condensation dripping on my shirt. Wait a minute, how could that be since Chili's had those nice coasters to sit your drinks on, usually quite a few on each table...........................where was mine? I took a quick glance at a couple of tables around me and the same, no coasters! I asked the waitress "what gives, no coasters" to which she replied "same thing, the recession! I said you mean to tell me a Chili's trade mark has been discontinued due to the recession.............yes she said, then she said let me get you some extra napkins to set your drinks on. In what seemed like an eternity she appeared with a stack of napkins you could wipe a horse with, I mean the cost of this stack of napkins would have bought me 3 coasters.
If your like me and lot of folks I know you've swiped a coaster or two in your past trips to Chili's (their usually neat) and if your like me you'll grab a few of them and stick them in the glove box so you can take then into Chili's on your next visit.
What can I say, it's been a slow week for me and the current events and this is what I came up with. Don't tell me you all haven't been there or in some similar situation in the past. And besides as you can see the "recession" hurts in more ways than you can imagine!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Snopes...............
Something was brought to light this morning via an e-mail from an old friend. Sure who can say where the e-mail originated or from whom it originally came but the fact is it got me thinking about Snopes.
We've all no doubt heard of snopes or the website snopes.com "rumor has it" an urban legend and pretty much a majority of folks out there use snopes as gospel when it comes to finding out if an article, e-mail, quote, you name it is in fact the truth or just a misleading lie. I know early on a good friend of mine threw snopes in my face a number of times as I forwarded e-mails which snopes believes to be untrue or misleading or misconstrued in someway or another. Oh sure as it turns out a lot of those e-mails where false, wrong, misleading etc., but now I'm starting to wonder if our socialist friends have infiltrated snopes!
Some folks are now not just taking snopes word for it but doing more diligent research and finding some of what snopes spews is not always the truth either or at least slanted towards the liberal direction more often than not.
I'm sending an e-mail to a lot of my friends that will read it and asking for a more reputable website for finding out the whole truth on matters like this that come up in e-mails or conversations. At the time of this writing I'm not sure how many other sites are out there but I'm sure there must be a few so that will be a project for today (you know us retire folks don't have shit to do other than crap like this) but it's my job to keep you informed.
One last thing that has been bothering me and maybe some of you intellectuals can give me an answer via an e-mail or FB as to how and why. I'm just going to take a couple of words but we know there are many more, but why all of a sudden we're or at least the media is changing the pronunciation of words we grew up with and were taught in school. Let's take the first that comes to mine, Jaguar (jag'war') I've notice and bear with me that some commercials now call the vehicle jag'u'waaa. Did I miss something in school, is this car named for a large cat the jaguar now ending with a long waaaaaaa? Also in the news now is another one, the country of Chile (chili), we grew up with everyone pronouncing it Chili but now especially the media has to work their asses off to pronounce it "Cheeelay"and it's getting to the point there's a new one every week. My kids are too old and my grand kids are too young but it would be interesting to know if our geography teachers or literature teachers or reading teachers are in fact teaching these and other words to our children different that we were taught and why! Was my geography teach a dumb dumb, because I'm sure he taught me exactly how he was taught so we literally have had generations of children being taught wrong.........................if these folks in the media are in fact correct in telling me these miners in Cheeeelay are having a tough go of it.
Just some more of what I like to call "food for thought".
We've all no doubt heard of snopes or the website snopes.com "rumor has it" an urban legend and pretty much a majority of folks out there use snopes as gospel when it comes to finding out if an article, e-mail, quote, you name it is in fact the truth or just a misleading lie. I know early on a good friend of mine threw snopes in my face a number of times as I forwarded e-mails which snopes believes to be untrue or misleading or misconstrued in someway or another. Oh sure as it turns out a lot of those e-mails where false, wrong, misleading etc., but now I'm starting to wonder if our socialist friends have infiltrated snopes!
Some folks are now not just taking snopes word for it but doing more diligent research and finding some of what snopes spews is not always the truth either or at least slanted towards the liberal direction more often than not.
I'm sending an e-mail to a lot of my friends that will read it and asking for a more reputable website for finding out the whole truth on matters like this that come up in e-mails or conversations. At the time of this writing I'm not sure how many other sites are out there but I'm sure there must be a few so that will be a project for today (you know us retire folks don't have shit to do other than crap like this) but it's my job to keep you informed.
One last thing that has been bothering me and maybe some of you intellectuals can give me an answer via an e-mail or FB as to how and why. I'm just going to take a couple of words but we know there are many more, but why all of a sudden we're or at least the media is changing the pronunciation of words we grew up with and were taught in school. Let's take the first that comes to mine, Jaguar (jag'war') I've notice and bear with me that some commercials now call the vehicle jag'u'waaa. Did I miss something in school, is this car named for a large cat the jaguar now ending with a long waaaaaaa? Also in the news now is another one, the country of Chile (chili), we grew up with everyone pronouncing it Chili but now especially the media has to work their asses off to pronounce it "Cheeelay"and it's getting to the point there's a new one every week. My kids are too old and my grand kids are too young but it would be interesting to know if our geography teachers or literature teachers or reading teachers are in fact teaching these and other words to our children different that we were taught and why! Was my geography teach a dumb dumb, because I'm sure he taught me exactly how he was taught so we literally have had generations of children being taught wrong.........................if these folks in the media are in fact correct in telling me these miners in Cheeeelay are having a tough go of it.
Just some more of what I like to call "food for thought".
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