Leave My Fries Alone!!!

(I promised Dania I’d blog about this!)


Dania picked me for lunch. Both of us are on diet. SUPPOSEDLY.
So we went to Johnny Rockets as it has been ages when we last ate there!

We promised ourselves that we will have just a salad or nothing for dinner!!

So we ordered.

I ordered the usual chicken burger and the Half & Half so that I don’t order the cheese fries.

As my side order arrived, an Iranian family of 7 came in. Most sat at the counter. The mother went around checking what each is ordering. Buzzing like a bee between them all in the small JR outlet.
Suddenly I see a finger pointing at my fries. Then it moves to my onion rings. Back to my fries and again to the rings.
That finger was closer to my Half & Half than my own finger ever was!!!
I looked up and I saw the mother pointing at MY side dish to her kids. So Dania & I look at each other and basically smiled it off.
15 seconds later I find the finger even closer to my Half & Half again, so I look up again and again the mother is still pointing at it for her kids. WTF!!!
Have they not seen something like it before??
So I say “politely”: just stop touching my food!
Dania was also getting annoyed and told her to stop poking at my food.
The finger disappears.

Three minutes later, the finger appears again. I still have not taken a bite from that plate.
I look at Dania and laugh. I remembered the Egyptian candid camera where someone sits next to you and eats your food. Only I’m not sitting next to them!
There I was just waiting for her to take a couple of fries and some rings off.
This CAN NOT be happening to me.

The finger disappears.

Two minutes later, and yes I have not touched my plate yet, the finger comes with the rest of the hand towards the plate. Picks up the plate a bit before I say:
HEY!!!
The mother’s voice comes to me: sec-uze me, please see modil?
(Don’t Secuse me!! You are making me sick & turning me off my food!!) HA?!!!

It turns out that the woman wants to show the waiter my order, so I told her the “model” is called Half & Half! After checking with me if she pronounced it again, she happily recited after me to him!!

She really didn’t see anything wrong in sticking her chubby finger into my food or taking my plate to communicate to the world around her!!

Dania & I couldn’t stop laughing. Now who thought a short guilt-full trip to JR would end up as a very funny incident, and I don’t even have to feel guilty because I didn’t eat half my food. (I like to think that I more resolved not to pig out than to think that she really turned me off my food!!)

I’m still not having dinner today!!