A Phone Call From Jeff,Shopping, and A Bad Restaurant Experience

Orange City, FL.
49 deg. clear, W. wind @ 5 mph.
Forecast today = high temp. 65 deg. partly sunny, WNW wind @ 10 to 15 mph with 25 mph gusts.

Not much exciting happened yesterday. Both Jim and Linda watched quite a bit football because there wasn't much else on. Jeff, (Jim's son), called from Portland Oregon to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and to thank Jim and Linda for the presents that they sent out there. They had spent Christmas down in Los Angeles with Heather's sisters and her parents, and it sounds like they had a very good time.

I don't know what Jim and Jeff talk about when they get on the phone, but they always talk for a very long time. I think they talked for about an hour and a half yesterday. They don't talk very often, so I guess they're just catching up. ;-)

About 2:00 yesterday afternoon, Jim and Linda took CLT and headed over to Walgreen's. Jim needed a few things, and Linda bought some Christmas wrapping paper and supplies because all the Christmas stuff was 50% off and she got some good bargains.

About 5:30 Jim and Linda decided to head over to Perkins for dinner. Now, normally they enjoy going there, but last night was another story. It was about 6:05 when they walked into the restaurant. There weren't many people there, so they got seated right away. Then, they waited. It was bout 15 minutes before the waitress finally came around to get their order and then they waited. At one point, when their waitress was bringing out food to another table, she looked at Jim and said, "It's going to be awhile". So, they waited.

Jim is usually pretty understanding in situations like this. Things happen, and sometimes you have to wait awhile, but, when it was about 10 minutes to 7:00 and they still didn't have their food, he was starting to get pretty upset!! He was just about to get up and walk out of the restaurant, when the waitress finally brought out the food. (It was just a couple of minutes before 7:00).

They ate their food, and it was good, but I know Jim didn't enjoy it. He was not a happy camper by this time. So ...... when they checked out at the register and the gal asked Jim how everything was, he told her the food was good but it was unacceptable that they had to wait so long to get it. The gal at the register apologized and told him that this happens every weekend.

What??? This happens every weekend???? Well, being that Jim was already an unhappy camper, he told her that if that was the case, and they were going to treat people like that, she should tell her manager that they had just lost 2 customers. :-(

He paid the bill and he and Linda walked out! I don't know if they'll ever go back to the Perkins in Orange City again!!!

By the time they got back here to the park, Jim was pretty well calmed down, and he and Linda spent the rest of the evening watching TV.

Did you know that about 75% of all New Years eve parties involve 20 people or less?