Crazy Days – August 23

I haven’t updated yet this week for two reasons. First, there really hasn’t been anything going on worth updating besides going to dinner in bad restaurants, although there is a story with that one. Second, this is the last week of the audit, the VP is going to be here on Wednesday reviewing our work, and I’m scrambling to get everything finished. Sorry.

Now, the restaurant story:

I asked a couple of the people at the company if they could suggest someplace good to eat. Both of them immediately said Plunketts. I thought, “That sounds like a good British name. I’ll bet they have some good stuff. Besides, they come highly recommended.” What I didn’t ask was what kind of food they serve, a very important detail when dealing with hungry auditors that get bad-tempered when in need of food and beer. We get in the cab to take us to the hotel and mention that we’re going there for dinner. One of the older, wiser guys in the cab asked what kind of food was served there. The cabbie said, “Mostly Mexican I guess.” He must have heard me groan because then he said, “But don’t worry. It’s not all that spicy.” Sending a Texan to get Mexican food in England is the equivalent of one of them coming to Dallas and me sending them to a great place to get fish and chips. It just doesn’t work.