Steve & Amy – Hoping to Adopt

On Friday night Steve and I decided to go out to eat. We went to this Chinese place called Lucky China. My family and I always went there when we were growing up, so I told him we should try it. We had the most hilarious dinner!! We decided to order combination plates, with chow mein, sweet and sour chicken, and fried rice. Our waitress (and you must picture all this said with a very thick Chinese accent), said “you sure you want the Chow Mein, the younger generation, they like the Lo Mein, and I can substitute the Lo Mein for only $1 more.” When we said we wanted the Chow Mein, she tried to describe it to us…and asked us again, “you sure you want the Chow Mein?” We once again told her that’s what we wanted, and so she finally took our order. Then when she brings out our meals, she points to Steve and says, I put the sweet and sour sauce on yours, you are a man, you eat the whole plate. Then she points to me and says, I put your to the side, we women, we cannot eat too much, our stomach will poke out. You take some of this home! I got a good laugh out of that, but it gets even better. Well, Steve didn’t really end up liking his Chow Mein, but he tried to stir it around, so it would look like he had eaten some of it. When the waitress came back she looked at Steve and said, “You no like your Chow Mein?” He tried to be polite and said it was okay, but she would have none of it. She said, “I told you, you no like the chow mein. Next time you come here you ask for Lo Mein, and if you not remember, tell the waitress that you want the SOFT noodles, they will understand,” then she went on to describe how she only works a couple of nights a week, and how she has worked there for seven years and knows what the customer likes. Then she continued the lecture by saying, You both cannot get the same thing, you need to get different things, then you try a little of both and you can get what you like. Then she told us to take home our food, because we paid good money for this food and Chinese food is still pretty good when you warm it up the next day. So needless to say, we packed up ALL our food including the Chow Mein (we didn’t want another lecture). As we were packing up, Steve asked me where I had put our fortunes. When I told them they were on the table, he said, pick them up…what if it’s rude to leave the fortunes!! As we left, I was laughing SO hard. I’ve never seen Steve so concerned about what he was taking home…and I’ve never gotten so many lectures from a waitress before!! We gave her a good tip, because it was such an entertaining night!!

If this doesn’t seem funny to you, ask Steve and I to tell you in person with the Chinese accent, it’s great!!