Any Excuse Is A Good Excuse
Nov 6th, 2006 by Don Ray
Well the way I rationalized it was this way. If I walked back from down town, I could mentally deduct the cost of the taxi ride from my check at TGI Fridays. And beside after that walk I needed a break anyway and I knew when I got home I wouldn’t feel like making lunch.
My second rationalization is that the entertainment of talking to the waitresses is another benefit and certainly worth something. Today, I had the barbeque beef sandwich. Final price was $6.00 after the jubliado discount. And when I deduct my cab fare, it comes to a more reasonable price.
While I was there a group of young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came in for lunch. I talked to one of them and learned they will be in Panama until 2008. I always like to see a bunch of clean cut young people who are willing to give part of their lives to such a cause.
I took a photo of them so their folks back home could see that they were eating well. I apologize to the gentleman on the left that got cut out of the photo. I know he was in the photo when I pressed the button. Must have been a photographic senior moment.
[...] A new PC arrived and the activity was ready to go about 3:00 PM (one hour late). The presentation exercise began without any opening remarks about the class, what the objective of this exercise was, or what they expected of their invited guests. There were three of us, myself and two of the young missionaries that I had photographed at TGI Friday’s a few weeks ago. [...]