For the dinner date portion of our evening we went to the nicest
restaurant that was available within 20 miles and was also in our
price range. It was a swank little steakhouse by the name of Carvers
it has since gone out of business in that location largely because of
their high prices and shady business practices which I will enumerate
straight away. I opened the menu and steadied myself as I started
noticing the prices and got a little panicked because I didn't know
that appetizers cost $10 and that dinners cost $30. I sat back and
nodded approvingly while trying to find the least expensive thing for
myself and endure the brunt of my dates order. I was hoping against
hoping that I had enough brought enough cash to cover the meal. she
started up by ordering a stuffed portobello mushroom appetizer of
which she took one bite of and decided it tasted like human fleash,
gagged a little, hurried for a cleansing sip of soda and pushed
aside. Well there was a quick $10 experiment that I'll never get
back. When we're going over the entrée menu she asked if the
swordfish was very fishy, because she hated fish and the waiter
assured her the swordfish was not a very fishy fish and she would
probably like it. I thought for $24 she better like it. Anyway, it
may come to little surprise to those of you who were able to guess
from the 'fish' half of the name swordfish that it, brace yourself,
tasted like fish. This also got a single nibble, a gag and a quick
trip to the sanctifying flavor of Pepsi cola. I was getting pretty
irritated about laying out $40 now for her meal which she done
nothing with but taste, gag and drink a soda. I ate mine all the way
down to the glazing, and then ate hers all the way down to the ground
including the human flesh flavored portobello appetizer. No wonder
they went out of business selling swordfish that, of all things,
tasted exactly like fish.We headed out to go to the dance and as we
left the restaurant which just cost me $90 for the two of us to not
eat dinner she informed me that she was starving to death needed to
stop at Wendy's to get kids meal. She got a chicken nugget kids meal
and some ketchup the put on the chicken nuggets and said that was the
best thing in the world. I pointed out there was a way we could have
gotten them and saved $90. Or, with a little bit of deduction,
realized that the swordfish would taste like fish. This made her very
defensive and she was in a huff for about an hour as we drove to the
site of the prom. I guess the important part was the experience and
what price can you put on the experience of turning your nose up and
fate gagging at dinner?
