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It started out as a nice idea - my girlfriend wanted to treat me for dinner in honor of my birthday. What transpired was a meal gone wrong.

Originally we were supposed to meet her boss and his wife out at a swanky restaurant this evening, but after a few hours of shopping she decided that she didn't want to go. Instead she wanted just her and I to dine alone together. She suggested a restaurant that we have eaten at before, a 1950's themed place called the Red Apple Diner.

The Red Apple is quite well known locally as a great place to eat breakfast and lunch. My dad and I have gone there many a weekend morning and had some of the best bacon and egg breakfasts I've ever had. Sue and I have eaten a few dinners there over the last few years, and while their steaks were never anything to rave about, they were half-way decent.

We arrived and were led to a booth, where we sat and read the menus while waiting for our waitress. They were offering a prime rib dinner for $12.99 which sounded good to me, and Sue chose a rib steak with a side plate of sauteed mushrooms. Soon the waitress came and we ordered. I asked for a baked potato with sour cream and a salad with my dinner.

We got our salads shortly thereafter, and began eating. The salad was tasting pretty good to me, but Sue mentioned to me that the croutons were stale. Well, mine tasted ok, so I didn't think anything more of it. But those croutons were a harbinger of what was to come, and we should have heeded it.

Our dinners finally came after awhile, and we started in on them. I buttered up my baked potato and smothered it up with the sour cream in the little plastic cups that came with the plate. I then attacked my prime rib with relish. It was quite a thick slab, cooked medium just the way I like it. Sue started cutting into her rib, and immediately began complaining that it was not cooked enough. We flagged down the waitress and asked her to take it back and cook it some more. Graciously she apologized and took the steak, and mentioned that she was going to take her mushrooms with her so they could be kept warm until the steak was reurned.

About 5 minutes later the waitress returned with the steak and placed it on our table and took off. To our amazement her steak was topped with onions, and her side order of mushrooms were on top of it all too! Sue hates onions and she couldn't believe that they did that, since that was not the way she ordered her steak. Once again I had to call attention to our waitness.

The waitress was told to take it back and start over with a new steak since the onions had ruined the taste of the first one, and to put the mushrooms on a side plate like they were before. Once again the waitress apologized and took the food away. I felt sorry for Sue; here she was treating me and getting a screwed-up meal. I kept eating the prime rib and thanked my lucky stars that my meal was perfect.

Her new steak came back later, along with a new side dish of mushrooms. This time everything was right with her meal, and she began eating with relish. By this time I finished my prime rib and began cutting into my baked potato with my fork. I stuffed the first bite into my mouth and nearly choked - the potato was not smothered in sour cream, but with horseradish! I summoned the waitress a third time, and complained bitterly. It wasn't her fault really, since she was just serving what the kitchen sent out, but I could tell she was really embarrased. A few minutes later a new potato was brought to me by a different waitress, and I tasted the sour cream first to verify that it was sour cream before spreading it on the potato. I ate it quickly while Sue wrote out a check to pay for dinner while swearing that she would never eat there again.

I'm glad the rest of my birthday has been pretty good. But the Red Apple is now the Rotten Apple to us.

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Beautifully written, but you instead of "Birthday dinner from hell" you should of entitled the thread "SHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT"

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Beautifully written, but you instead of "Birthday dinner from hell" you should of entitled the thread "SHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT"

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I thought the "shit nobody cares about" was DawgBone, so I didn't write a thread about him.

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hahhaah. mr. dog man made me laugh. also, who writes a check at a restaurant? i mean, really? anyway, happy birthday, glad there wasn't any food poisoning, hope you got a bj at home.

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Well apparently 2 people so far care about muah, SO WRITE THAT DAMN THREAD! And judging by your crankyness, you didnt get the bj.

Better luck next year?

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The take checks at more places here in Minneapolis than they do credit cards, or it seems that way sometimes. Different places have different practices, Travis.

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Maybe when you've written more than 11 posts, you might be worth a mention somewhere in a throwaway thread by someone.

And I've gotten more than just a bj tonight, DB. So just go into your bathroom and pound your pud while meditating on that fact.

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they made you guys pay for that?

or, you actually paid for it?

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Different places have different practices, Travis.

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Beautifully written, but you instead of "Birthday dinner from hell" you should of entitled the thread "SHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT"

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And I've gotten more than just a bj tonight, DB. So just go into your bathroom and pound your pud while meditating on that fact.

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Alrighty, here ya go... I just woke up, so BE GENTLE!

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Maybe when you've written more than 11 posts, you might be worth a mention somewhere in a throwaway thread by someone.

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Now its 12 WHERES MY THREAD!?

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And I've gotten more than just a bj tonight, DB. So just go into your bathroom and pound your pud while meditating on that fact.

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You want me to meditate on the fact that you got some on your birthday, or that you left your unsatisfied wife after your Bj to post possibly the most uninteresting thread on this forum?

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nice and attitude to boot. btw, watch out for the women in here. they're deceitful connivin bitches that'll drag you down. just trust me and follow my lead, puddin.

I'm puttin together a composite man. Keep it up, bud. You have the technology.

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oops, I thought I was in a pm window.

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I figured the oral fixation sort of went with the territory, Mug. Now it looks like you have a new asshole to bat yer big purdy eyelashes at.

Hell, at least this one is bound to have some clearasil handy, should you need some sort of makeshift lube. (Either that or he fell facefirst onto a Domino's pepperoni supreme before snapping his picture.)

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Billgerat - Check
Peter_Torque- Check

Welcome to my list

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Billgerat - Check
Peter_Torque- Check

Welcome to my list

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Thanks! The asylum needed a new bitch. You've been here four days and already told Simon to die and gave Bill a bunch of shit for no reason, so I guess that means you're it.

That's great, because a lot of people here really miss Annea and were just waiting for fresh meat to arrive. (Don't go all mushy on us now, Mug. I predict this one will make Annea look like Einstein.)

I predict a rosy future for you here.

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Hell, his complextion didn't look that bad to me.

I'd hit it. There's only a handful that I'd bump uglies with here (I'm sorry. I just heard a collective sigh of disappointment), but.....



now wait, you put any thirty of us in a room with alcohol, and I guarantee you discernment goes right out the window. We're about the loosest group of people in any forum not sexually oriented or exclusively dedicated to pullin some sex. Pissups are like AA conferences with alcohol added; they're a bunch of drunks who just wanna hump each other's legs if they can't get nothin else goin.

I've woke up with worse than most of you at one time or another. The problem was that all those years I kept wakin up next to "IT" on Saturday mornin and wonderin where I met "IT" and how to get out without wakin "IT" up, and I swore I'd do somethin about that behavior. Then one mornin I woke up and "IT" was already awake and lookin at me as if to say "IT" wanted to get out without wakin me up, and I realized I had become "IT"'s "IT".

It happens to all of us at some point. Corn is likely the only one who'll never experience it, as he apparently has a painting in the attic to take care of that kinda stuff.

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Thanks! The asylum needed a new bitch. You've been here four days and already told Simon to die and gave Bill a bunch of shit for no reason, so I guess that means you're it.

I predict a rosy future for you here.

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PLEASE STOP! NO I CANT TAKE IT! HOW COULD YOU!

wait....



Why dont you post a nice little picture of your fat bald head on here torque? Hm? Come on, what you got to hide?

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more pics. now I have a hand

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Horseradish>>sour cream.

Although better in smaller quantities. Than one might have of sour cream, that is.

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I just can't believe you paid for it.

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