Adventures in Dining Out

Ted flew to Dallas for work early Thursday morning and returned late Friday evening.  When Ted is out of town, Julie does one of two things for dinner with the bambini: makes breakfast for all (since Ted doesn't like breakfast for dinner), or goes out to a restaurant (no dishes!).  This trip, she decided to do back-to-back restaurants.

Thursday, she took the bambini to Yum!  Yum! (which really does punctuate its name) menus macaroni and cheese and has cupcakes so as you might imagine, Fans, the bambini love it and Joe would for sure eat every meal there if he could.  This trip did not include cupcakes because of the aforementioned siren song of Halloween candy.  That is how glorious that song is: it beats out Yum! cupcakes.  Some of the conversation revolved around Julie telling Joe to pipe down and use his inside voice because Our Hero was repeatedly throwing his arms up like he was crossing a finish line and saying--loudly--"Yum!"  He eventually looked at Julie like she was a total dope and informed her that there was a "shouty thing" after the word so "we got to say it loud."  Indeed.

Friday, Julie took the bambini to My Burger, or "Your Burger," as Clara calls it.  My Burger does not punctuate its title (bummer!), but it does have booths (yippee!).  The booths are some distance from the ordering counter but within sight of it, so Julie left the bambini at the booth with the announcement that if she saw anyone walking on the seat or using it like a trampoline, we would leave right then and there.  Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a man in the corner chuckle.  Turns out, Julie should have also said no standing on the seat, because there was plenty of that "to lock at the car," as Joe informed her.  The man in the corner chuckled some more.  He wasn't eating and appeared to just be taking in the My Burger tableau.   Dinner proceeded apace and as the bambini were struggling into their coats and gear, Clara insisted on turning her hat such that one of the ear flaps was covering her face.  Julie pointed out that the hat was askew and tried to turn it at which point Clara said "NO!" That's when the Man in the Corner chuckled again and said, "That's what I call boss."  Indeed.