Dining out surprises

Last evening was Sunday evening - date night! Being good thrifty senior citizens we had a coupon for 50% off second entree at the local Marie Callender's restaurant in Pismo. We put in our orders and had a great time talking, catching up and then noticed that a family who came in just before us had ordered just before us and were now FINISHED eating their meal. We had drinks and cornbread...So I called over Mary the waitstaff person and asked her to check on our meal. She came back shortly and apologized to say it would be just a few more minutes. We thanked her and sure enough it came out just a few minutes later. It wasn't a gourmet meal by any stretch of the imagination but it was tasty enough. Shortly after the manager stopped by and said our wait person told her that she had forgotten to put in our order and that we had waited quite a while. The manager said the restaurant's policy was to apologize and to give us our meals free. She was pretty adamant and being the good thrifty seniors we have become, we didn't fight it too hard. So then the conundrum of whether or not to tip. We decided to give the tip to the manager with a message for the wait person that we were tipping her honesty.

On our way out of the restaurant we were treated to a most beautiful sky - pretty clouds and colors. Clouds at this time of the year are pretty rare for this neck of the woods which made it all the more beautiful.