As you know we have not been in much of a Merry mood after the death of our friend. A month ago we bought tickets to a Jewish Chinese Dinner Comedy event that benefits one of my clients. We thought it would be a fun non-traditional thing to do for the holidays. We invited some friends to come along to share the experience.
Because of circumstance we ended up going in separate cars. My friends got there first. The seating was assigned by table. We were assigned to the Farklempt table. For those of you who don't know it is a Yiddish word meaning choked up with emotion.
Anyway, our friends got to the table and sat down. Another family got to the table and took all the other seats except one. Brenda and I arrived to find one seat. We explained the situation to a person in charge and boy, that started something. One after another people with more authority showed up to check all the tickets. After 10-12 minutes we were told that the other family didn't buy their tickets together and not all their tickets were at the same table. One person had to move. They were putting up a HUGE fuss and refused to get up. Finally the guy in charge said he would kick them out unless one person got up.
It was quite awkward. Especially since once the guy got up, I had to sit in his seat. Yay! We got to sit with the folks who were glaring at us. After a few minutes they apologized and explained they were not mad at us.
Then came the food. One of their men was allergic to shrimp. So what did the server do? He put all the clean serving spoons on the shrimp platter. As we know I am vegan and the folks at the table began mixing the spoons from platter to platter, using their personal forks to scoop food (which I find to be disgusting when you are sharing food with people you don't know!) and slopping food all over. I ate rice and some eggplant I got to before anyone else touched it. It was comical.
The comics were hysterical and made the whole night worth the trouble. I have not laughed so hard in a long time. Each one was funnier than the last. I really needed a good laugh.
The whole night was funny and awkward and weird. I came home and ate dinner!!
Until tomorrow...
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