Every meal is a deal

It's Friday night, and Mike and I decided to go out to dinner. There is a deli/Italian restaurant down the street from us that I had never tried, so we decided to check it out tonight. Their sign out front advertises "Freshest food in town!" and "Every meal is a deal". We ordered and were happily munching on our calamari and bread, when the waitress brought our entrees to the table. I looked down at my lasagna and noticed, to my dismay, that the lasagna had fuzzy mold growing on it. We flagged the waitress over and showed her, she apologized and took it back to the kitchen. I briefly began mulling over whether I wanted to chance it with a replacement lasagna, or whether I wanted something else...

And then the waitress brings the lasagna back, sets it down in front of me, and tells me that the chef says "it's just the meat," as if that is how meat is supposed to be. We were stunned. It took me a minute to process the fact that they actually expected me to eat moldy lasagna. Eventually, after I clarified that I had no intention of eating that lasagna, they got me some spaghetti (without meat, given that apparently their meat comes with fur).

I'm not that mad. But it was pretty funny. That was definitely not how I expected that to go.
That definitely takes some chutzpah, to bring back the same moldy lasagna.

So.... definitely avoid Nathan's Bella Napoli, on Ashley River Rd in West Ashley.

Tragedies

Last night, Mike and I went out to dinner. As we drove to the restaurant, we noticed a huge cloud of smoke rising from down the street, and emergency vehicles kept flying past us. We figured that there was a fire somewhere nearby. This morning, we learned that 9 firefighters were killed in that fire. It's a terrible loss for our community.

Two weeks ago, an aircraft carrying a University of Michigan transplant team crashed. Six people were killed, including Richard Chenault, who lived across the street from my parents. He was a father, a nurse, a high school cross-country coach, and he worked tirelessly to promote organ donation.

The world needs more people like these. You can read profiles of the U of M crash victims here.
You can read profiles of the Charleston firefighters here.