The Mortification of March 11

So my mom and I went out to dinner at Applebee's last night.  My family tries to do this almost every month where my dad and my sister will go out somewhere and then the same night my mom and I will go out to a different place, but sometimes my dad and I go out somewhere and my mom and my sister go out somewhere.  When my dad and I go out and my mom and my sister go out we call that Guys' Night Girls' Night (I don't prefer that name!), and when my mom and I go out and my dad and my sister go out we call that Date Night (Goodness, we really could think up another name!).  Anyway, after that confusing ramble I'll just tell you that last night was Date Night.  It was a Friday night, of course and my mom and I were going to Gregg's at first - yeah we pulled right back out onto the road when the restaurant was packed to the doors!  So we went to Applebee's instead, and we had to wait about five minutes for a seat - which wasn't that bad.  As we were waiting this person walks into the kitchen and I say to my mom, "Mom, that person in the kitchen really looks like Dan!"  And she looked and said, "Because it is him, he does work here."  It just turns out that Dan is my cousin's fiance.  Very unfortunately he wasn't our waiter but he did have a spare moment so he stopped at our table to say hi.  

So anyway, when we were finished with our meal and I had put my leftovers in a container that the waitress brought me (without me asking, by the way and she did the same thing with another glass of lemonade), I went to wash my hands before we left since I had been touching my shrimp which seemed to be a bit greasy.  So my mom said, "Do you know where the bathroom is?  If you look at where Dan's standing it's right behind him."  So I said, "Okay" and walked off.  So, after I had rounded the corner I thought I had walked far enough and that Dan had just moved or something.  No, because as soon as I went through that doorway I was smack-dab in the kitchen!  Thankfully someone was walking out at the time so I didn't more than a bit of a step inside.  This person says to me, "Oh hi, are you looking for the bathroom?  Well it's right up there to your right, just walk right up there."  Then I looked up there and Dan is still standing there, and he said, "Yeah, it's over here behind me."  I was a bit mortified, my future cousin directing me to the bathroom which a snail or a turtle could've found sooner than I did!  So I said, "Oh okay, thank you!" but was really feeling a bit silly.  

That almost tops the other day when I was watching a show (I Love Lucy) and there was a quiz show on it and the song, My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, Lucy sang there.  After the episode was over I saw the only song of that episode come up on the screen, so I exclaimed, "It's 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean?'  I always thought it was 'My Body Lies Over The Ocean!'"  So my mom and my sister, who were home at the time, got a good kick out of that and now my mom has given it this alias, 'The Song of the Ghost.'  Do you get it?

Anyway, I know if Dan is with the family for Easter in just over two weeks he'll tease me about it, "Oh hey, do you know where the bathroom is?"  Who knows?  He's also a magician, by the way - I don't know why I just said that now but whatever.  Anyway, that was 'The Mortification of March 11' and next time we go to Applebee's I'll be sure to watch more closely!