{"id":450,"date":"2003-02-13T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2003-02-12T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/450"},"modified":"2003-02-13T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2003-02-12T21:50:38","slug":"an-interesting-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/450","title":{"rendered":"An interesting meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

After laughing our way through the movie, we decided to get a late-night meal at Magnolia Cafe<\/a>. We sat down and perused the menu, then hub nudged me with his eyes and said “Problem customer”. I looked over to where he was indicating – a guy in a girl in a booth by the window. They were complaining about the service. Suddenly the girl lashed out with a barrage of “Fuck”s, mostly directed at the manager who was talking to her. The manager told her to get out of the restaurant; she didn’t appreciate being cursed at. (Scene from Clerks: “You’re not allowed to rent here anymore!” “Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah!” Man, that cracks me up for some inescapable reason.)<\/p>\n

The man at the booth then started spouting about his First Amendment Rights(tm). People just don’t seem to understand that the first amendment doesn’t give you carte blanche to, say, yell “Fire!” in a movie theater (although we should have done so during the movie tonight, as it would probably have been more entertaining than Final Destination 2) or go into a private business establishment and start verbally abusing the staff.<\/p>\n

So the manager went to call the cops. In the time it took for them to show up, the couple plus their two friends in the booth next to them went outside and started pacing around.<\/p>\n

It is important to note at this point that I had noticed a large and visible bulge in the small of the back of the man in the booth. I do have some experience in noting if someone is ‘printing’ or not, and this guy was printing. <\/p>\n

I started to get nervous. So did hub. We looked for the waiter so we could change our order to go, and began to understand why the original couple was complaining about the bad service. I checked out the bathroom area for a back door – no luck. If we left, we were going to have to walk through the four pissed-off pacing people in the front of the restaurant.*<\/p>\n

Well this was a dilemna. Just then the cops arrived. I only saw one car, but later discovered that three units responded. For about thirty minutes, the cops talked to the PPP* as we watched and waited for the front to clear. Hub said not to worry – it was APD, and if anyone started to get crazy, the police would just shoot them. Finally, the PPP’s friends drove off. That left the original duo – the guy who looked like he was packing and his foul-mouthed woman friend. Anxiously we waited while they wandered back and forth in front of the plate glass windows, the woman waving her arms around in an agitated manner. Finally they left too, and one of the cop cars did, leaving two behind to pull up and chat with each other. We made it out without incident and are safely home, where hub is now lovingly playing with his guns.<\/p>\n

Was the guy carrying legally? I don’t know. I do know that hub was<\/i>, and that he’s very relieved that he wasn’t involved in a situation where he might have to use his weapon. He also swears that he’ll never go out in public with only one mag again. Magnolia Cafe. Who’da thunk?<\/p>\n

*”Pissed-off pacing people” has such a nice ring to it, don’t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After laughing our way through the movie, we decided to get a late-night meal at Magnolia Cafe. We sat down and perused the menu, then hub nudged me with his eyes and said “Problem customer”. I looked over to where he was indicating – a guy in a girl in a booth by the window. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}