I'm tired. And replete.

Last night I ended up reading until 1am, and then I noticed an evil spider making a house right above my head. I have a fairly high cabin bed, so the ceiling's quite close. And the spider was doing that, "Oh, look, I nearly fell off. But I'm still here. Spin, spin, spin, wooo, nearly fell off again," thing that spiders do. I thought about trying to catch it, but it was taking me so long to psych myself up that I thought it'd be easier to sleep on the settee downstairs.

This makes me a complete wimp, probably. I let the spider have my room all to itself. Hmmm.

Anyway, I'm replete because I went to Pizza Hut tonight with three people from church. And my brother John.

I have bad memories of the two previous time I've been to Pizza Hut. The first time, I went to one in Southend. We were kept waiting ages. I was prepared to give them another chance, so I went to the branch in Leicester. And I was kept waiting there even longer! Some people know this story already. You see, I was annoyed because the staff seemed to be congregating and chatting rather than serve us. I can appreciate that if they were busy service might be slow, but... When the bill came round I noticed that it said, "Service not included". Presumably that's to remind us to tip. The service had been so appalling that I wrote "I noticed" on it, before we paid and legged it...

Tonight was pretty slow, too. I'm beginning to think it's me who causes the problem. Maybe they see me coming. I don't know. It was fine to start with, but when it got to dessert time the waitress disappeared. One of our party enquired as to her whereabouts, and the other waitress said she probably had a problem with her terminal, or some other vague excuse. Eventually a very nice lady came out, who I presumed to be a manager of some sort. She was very apologetic. I think she was having problems with several staff members. But she said we could have as much ice cream as we wanted. She was so nice that I'll forgive them. Besides, we were there to talk more than eat. And the music was decent, even if the air conditioning made the atmosphere like that of a fridge. :-)

Oh, and I feel extra sympathetic towards the nice manager lady because the two blokes at the table next to us apparently left without paying.

Tut!

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:54 PM