How do you keep entertained at a Mexican restaurant when there is only one server for the entire restaurant?
This is a serious question. Folks, you never know when you
might have to survive in the Mexican Restaurant Wild. Oh, sure, you could drink
margaritas (of course, we do), but that’s not enough. It might be a half hour
before the server returns to your table. Maybe even forty-five minutes.
Binder Clip.
That’s right. You heard me. You need to bring along a
mini-binder clip.
I find one randomly stuck inside my sweatshirt pocket. I
must’ve put it there from work or something. Anyway, I put the binder clip on
the table and immediately start flicking it like that plastic frog game, the
one where you squish down the frog’s butt-end and it leaps across the table.
The Binder Clip Football Game keeps us entertained the whole
time we are there, about ninety minutes, having a few drinks while waiting for
TAKE-OUT food. Yes, we are waiting for a TAKE-OUT order. The best part is that we entertain those
around us, too. The binder clip sails across our table, on to the floor, over
the booth backs, into the far window, past the register, into our cleavage,
across our shoulders, into our foreheads, into the tortilla chips . . .
Honestly, it’s cheap and satisfying entertainment. When we go to leave, a woman three booths away says, “You two sounded like you were having so much fun!”
Should we tell her? Who would believe us? Will people judge
us when we admit it? Oh, what the hell.
“Yes, we were. We were playing with a binder clip.”
The expression on the woman’s face? Priceless. The hour-plus
of enjoyment we got from the game? Also priceless, but, even better, memorable.
