One night at Texas Roadhouse

Where I am going soon to celebrate my birthday. I turn 75.

A couple of years age I went into TRH for a rare steak dinner. The place was crowded and I was offered the choice of waiting or eating at the bar. I chose the bar and found myself sitting next to a young woman that was sitting next to a young man. It was obviously a dinner date of some sort. They, too, had opted for the bar instead of waiting.

As I was starting to sit down their food arrived so I waited for a few seconds to be seated. She had obviously ordered the biggest steak on the menu plus a couple of sides. She took a single bite of one of the rolls and announced she was full. That caught my attention and I looked at the man. 

He was shocked, angry and hurt. He realized he's been played for a sucker. He was livid and rightfully so.That same thing had happened to me several decades before and I remembered it clearly.

I turned to the youngster and said, "You paid for that meal It's yours to do what you want with it. I'll give you ten bucks for her leftovers to help you recoup your losses."

"Mister, that's a done deal," he replied and slid her entire meal over in front of me.

The bartender that had come over for my drink order saw and heard the entire thing and broke out laughing as the diva threw a conniption and stormed off.

My newly found young friend looked at me sadly and commented that after this he wasn't likely to get another date on campus again. 

I corrected him. I told him he would never get another date with a DIVA again. They'd all be terrified of him because they knew he wouldn't take their shit. What WOULD happen if he told the rest of the story about ordering the entire menu and eating one bite that the decent women would get word. I told him that good women don't like that crap either. They would find him desirable because he had self-respect and handled himself with a quick wit and a sense of humor. Good women also respect the fact that while you're still in school you don't have a lot of disposable cash. They respect that something like this dinner takes a BIG chunk out of it.

 

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