Restaurant mishap

Tell me if I am truly paranoid. But this time I think I am right.

Wednesday after Kegan's Alpha time I was really hungry. DW was going to be home late too I thought so I decided to treat myself to a restaurant meal. I know a Chinese place on the way home. I will not mention the name, you will see why later.

Their food is not spectacular, how many Chinese places are? But the prices are pretty reasonable.

Well I got there at 9:20. The door says they are closed at 9:30. I walked in to an empty restaurant. I balked and said I wanted to eat. I did sort of give them a chance to say no. But I think they knew what the sign said as well as I did. I was going to try to make it worth their while.

But in retrospect I think I got stung. I don't know what they put in my food but I do know that about 15 hours later I had a very bad case of the runs. The food did not taste different to me but my bad tooth started really killing me as I ate the egg foo young. I went to the dentist the next day and it is fixed. But I got some water and paid my bill quickly and took the rest of the food home.

I'm not sure the toothache had anything to do with it but the diarrhea did.

Plus after serving me these two ladies, who own the place I assume, pulled up chairs at the next table and proceeded to pepper me with questions. When they found out I had been at the jail the most senior one in terms of authority went off on a diatribe that I really struggled to understand because her English is so bad. I still really do not understand her beef with the penal system, something about it costs too much.

I think this was their other way of punishing me for coming in right at closing time and keeping them from leaving.

They seemed to think the solution to my toothache was whiskey. As I was leaving two large men who looked like bouncers or enforcers came in and ordered drinks. They seemed willing to stay and serve these men. The men looked to be in no hurry to leave. That I do not understand either. Draw your own conclusions if you want to.

In the future I hope I'll remember to not enter restaurants about to close, especially if the place is otherwise empty. I guess I may be stuck with late night drive throughs. I keep thinking Chinese is better for me, maybe not. hehe