Tuesday, February 07, 2006

High as A Kite in Scotland, Fin

And you thought we had had enough by Part 2. No, we're doing consecutive entries today. And we're also really liberal with our use of first person pronouns today, sometimes singular and sometimes plural. Who do we mean by we? That's for us to know and you to find out.

Tour Guide: They had these structures called blackhouses, so named black after the color.

What else can you name black after?!

For lunch, the Tour That Just Gets Better Every Time The Guide Opens His Mouth, dropped us off at a tiny 'village' and told us we had an hour to get lunch. Most of us had just woken up from a woozy nap (thank you, windy country roads) and really, had absolutely no idea where we were. Didn't help that unless we wanted to eat at the exact same cafe we had stopped at during our first rest stop, serving the exact same food, we had to trek half a mile down the road to a sketchy little diner called Little Chef. Ah... Little Chef. If you could imagine a Denny's, but less classy, with even worse service, you get Little Chef. Man, I miss Denny's right now. The waiter at the Nashua one was actually pretty nice. The signs outside and on the menu advertised that Little Chef was having a "price crash!" so the foods were at especially cheap prices- that always stayed constant... yeah, we didn't understand the price slashing either. We stepped in, the 5 of us, and after a few minutes, a man finally came over to ask if we wanted smoking or non-smoking. We said 'non,' and he told us he'd have to split us up so that there'd be a barrier between two tables. We looked at him incredulously since one foot away from the seats he pointed to was a completely empty booth that could have easily accomodated us. We pointed this out to him. "Oh, that's the smoking section, do you mind sitting there?" But there's no separation between the two 'zones' and they're literally one foot apart and facing each other... so we said, yes- henceforth preventing all other smokers from using the 'smoking section.' On the menu, Little Chef didn't just advertise their proudest entrees but also items that were "Just as Good." Because sometimes, you don't want things of highest caliber, but food that's Just as Good. And sometimes, you get really thirsty and really need caffeine and that's why Little Chef advertises their COFFEE AND TEA LIKE THIS! To jerk you awake when you're reading. Pay attention to the menu! Oh, and when Lauren and I left early, because service was so slow that we were afraid the bus might leave without us, and so we were sent with the intention of asking the bus to wait for the rest of us, when we did that, did the waitress run after us yelling, thinking we had dined and dashed? I think she did- even as the rest of our table was waiting patiently for her inside the diner to, I don't know, ring up the bill? Oh, Little Chef, I shan't forget you.

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