Friends In High Places

It ain't Cheers, but we are regulars in a few neighborhood places.

Friday night on the way home from the airport, it's a usual practice for Ron and I to go to dinner. It's not anywhere fancy, since it is Friday night around 7:00 p.m. and I'm pretty beat by then. But we like to stop somewhere local, have dinner and sit and chat and catch up on the week.

This week, we chose an oldie but a goodie. There is a family style restaurant that we like to go to. They have the best soups and believe it or not but they have cole slaw to rival Aunt Mary's! We aren't there every week, but when we do go, we always ask for Nancy to be our waitress. If Nancy sees us first, she'll always make sure she grabs us for one of her tables.

Nancy is an older lady with an awesome attitude. She is always very nice, always has a smile on her face and will always keep our coffee cups filled. It's a win-win situation. She gives us awesome service and we leave an awesome tip.

So, Friday, we are sitting at Nancy's table, enjoying our dinner and chit chatting. Neither of us are in much of a hurry; the place isn't that busy so we're really not holding up a table. Nancy as always asks if we want dessert, naming a few of the scrumptious things available that night. As usual, we decline. The dinners are so filling, you did something wrong if you have room for dessert. We said we'd take the bill and that would be it for us.

Nancy came back in a few minutes with our bill, and a to go container. Inside of the to go container was a huge piece of chocolate layered cake! She said that the dessert was on her and since we were full we were to take it home with us and enjoy it later. C'mon now. How can you beat service like that? I love being a regular! And, it helps to have friends with connections to chocolate cake.