Wanted: food watcher

The Collective received gift certificates this week for participating in the public libraries summer reading program.  So of course I used them as leverage.  "If you are good this week, we will go out for dinner. " Quite frankly it was going to be  bigger treat for me, as I would get out of cooking, and doing dishes.

Upon entering, I took The collective to the restroom, and then we were seated by the hostess.

So we decide what we decide what we want (this took about 10 minutes), placed the order, got the food, took two bites, when my 5 year old announces "I have to go to the restroom".  I told the waitress with a wink on the way, we would be right back. 

We returned to find our table freshly bussed. 

Please DH hurry home, I need my food watcher!

On the drive home, I couldn't help but  think, this has to be  pretty common in the World of Milspousery. 

*the manager was nice, he offered to bring us "more food", but frankly The Collective were not about to sit and wait for another batch of food to be brought out.  I opted for the gift certificates.....*

Comments

[Wiese]

Funny post! I'm glad I need my husband for funny little things that come up. I need him and want him and can't wait until he's home. I've learned to be silent during his interactions with our children because his style is another type of right way. (I'm soooooo mature, ha ha.)

When my hubbie is gone, I don't sleep well. I have pepper spray and cell phone near the bed. I lock my bedroom door with the dog on the otherside to bark at any intruder. Plus I've started a neighborhood watch program, but it doesn't help. When my husband is home I'm off into dreamland without any worries.

The last time he was gone my door bell rang at 8pm. Two guys were selling oil changes. Man it disturbed my sleep and it happened the night before he got home. Funny thinking about it now.

[Jan Wesner]

Wiese, I can so relate to all of that! What I need Mark for is yard work. He is quite content doing it - gets some sort of weird pleasure from it. Me, not so much. Plus I have black thumb. Am currently in the process of replacing dead spots in my front yard with fresh sod. I'm sure it's a waste of time as nothing I plant ever grows!
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[TripleE]

I've been known to write on a napkin "We'll be right back" and place it on our food when I take the gang to the restroom. (At Macaroni Grill the napkins are cloth,but the tablecloth is paper) Doesn't happen often, take-out is more my style when I'm not in the mood to cook.

[Reasa]

It is nice having older Kiddos to be my food watcher. Now when they leave for their summer trip I probaly will not go anywhere but have it delivered or go pick it up. Plus having to take all three little ones to the restroom in pulic is a comdey act in the making for us. :) I think we will have two or three more times of eating out this summer and that is all I can handle. LOL
Last night I sent all the Kiddos out to the truck first while I waited to pay and to have a minute or two of peace. The couple next to us smiled and said "Break time?" Well yeah was all I could think. The Kiddos were awesome just needed a minute of no "Mommy!!Mommy!!" Talk.

[Carrie]

Wiese,
A friend of mine who works on a Drug Task Force in Kansas told me to keep my car key fob by the bed.
If you hear something weird, set off your car alarm.

[usmc ssgt wife]

So funny, it was great that they compensated you though with GC.... I use to have a hard time sleeping without him home til we got our german shepard.Even though he's a big pussy cat I feel at ease. I know he wouldn't let anything happen to the kids. Strange male salesmen freak me out too...I always think they have a motive behind it....must be from being a Cheif of polices daughter i'm a little bit paranoid. I don't miss my husband for yard work, I love to do that, it's actually a great break from the indoor chores.What I do miss is planning a new exciting meal for him and being giddy all over again waiting for him to come home, table set, candles on, wine opened and gourmet style food set up...nothing makes him smile bigger (even with the kids here...although of course ..their plates have mac and cheese on them). Can't wait to cook for him again...

[liberal army wife]

I can't wait for mine to cook for me! He loves to cook and create. I have a lovely dog, part chow, a cupcake but you'd never know it from the noise she makes when someone comes to the door (or a wabbit crosses HER yard) Strange salesmen I don't have a problem with, I live waaay out in the sticks, they don't bother with us. Anyone who does, will be greeted by said snarly dog and if it's wierd enough, by me in a window with the phone in my hand.

LAW

[airforcewife]

AWTM, I can SO relate! I'm laughing to death here!

I have a 15 year old, who is a real help with the little ones. But she's gone fairly frequently on CAP stuff and then it's trouble.

We got Ike, our dog, specifically because hubby is gone a lot and Ike looks scary enough that no one will bother us. Of course, he's a big sweetie who spoons people when they let him sleep with them...

Yes, my dog spoons people. Robbers beware!

[angela]

I need my hubby back to hold my purse and whatever else we have at the moment. Taking kids to the bathroom is bad when you have 3 kids and 2 of them little girls with their own little purse full of who knows what. A little boy with a sippy cup and a spare pullup. Plus if you are leaving a store you have bags. I remember the days when my hubby could hold everything and I only had to take the actual kid that needed to go to the bathroom.

[Bonny]

When my husband was deployed, and even gone on other missions, I would lock all the doors and windows. Not only that, I wouls keep my cell phones in the room, pepper spray, taser and my Glock in the room with me. When the kids were very little, all three of us would be in the same room. Now that they are too old to sleep with me, I sleep in the living room and act like the "watch dog." Did I say, I would be back in the house before dark, as if all the monsters only came out at night.

[JB]

So when this happens, are you expected to still tip the waitress, even though you don't pay for the meal??? LOL!

[loquita]

Guilty as charged! I was a bus boy in high school, and remember when I did this to a mom with 2 kids once. My apologies on behalf of all bus boys who are forced by waitresses into table-clearing-automotons unable to stop and think, "Why are these plates of food sitting here, untouched?" :-p

Leaving a note sounds like a good plan if there's no one to do food watching duty.