blackout

Pigpen and I went to Mama Santa's in Little Italy for lunch yesterday. I ordered a dish of fresh fettucine with meatballs which was quite yummy but the portions were huge. Pigpen was nice enough to help me eat half my dish on top of his veal parmigana with spaghetti.

Funny thing is about a minute after our waitress placed our food down in front of us, the lights in the restaurant went out...a complete blackout! Of course Pigpen had a lighter and we ate our lunch by his Bic lighter until the waitress brought us a candle.

Sitting near us was 2 brothers who each ordered a large pizza to eat! The chubby brother (bears a very close resemblance to Jerry O'Connell's character in Stand By Me) who said "I told you, we shoulda ordered smalls instead" dumped salt into his brother's water glass while he was in the restroom. The brother came back and took a swig of his water and immediately spewed a mouthful of water at his younger brother. It was an ideal time to pull that prank since the restaurant had no windows and the lights were out. It was really dark in there. Sorry but Pigpen and I couldn't stop laughing - I thought I was going to snort fettucine up my nasal passages. Hee hee hee. --MM