Romance and Reservations. 12/16/22

See what we did there with that title? You have certain reservations about romance, and we’re talking about making reservations for dinner. Both of which have absolutely nothing to do with each other. And now that we have that cleared up let’s talk about Craig. If you happened to read the blog 2 weeks ago, when we started the Craig series, we asked the question: do you know people who are intelligent, funny, in good shape and attractive, everything somebody would want in a mate, and yet they remain single? Of course you do. And now you know why Craig remains single. If a relationship can’t survive a road trip, how’s it going to survive the real stuff? On the other hand, we’d guess many relationships would crumble on an extensive road trip, but that’s a different topic. If you applied the potato/po-tah-to song to road trips, we think it might go something like this: You say Doritos, I say Funyuns, You say taquitos and I say onions, Dortios/Funyuns/Taquitos/Onions, let’s call the whole thing off. And so he did.

Our second comic, first on your scroll this week, is about dinner reservations. If you live in or around a big city, you know how tough it is to get a desirable time at a popular restaurant. You go on a restaurant app like Open Table and you type in your restaurant and are given two choices, 5:30 or 10:00 pm. Everybody wants 7 or 8 and those go first. So you’re left with two undesirable choices. But a funny thing happens on the way towards your 60’s and 70’s and even 80’s. Before, if I had to choose, I’d have opted for the 10 pm. See a movie first then out to dinner. 5:30 is for old people and families with young children. Then John and I took a look in our own mirrors And we saw two older guys who also go out with couples with young kids (our daughters are both married and have blessed us with granddaughters). The baby has to go to bed by 7, which means leaving the restaurant by 6:30, which means dinner at 5???? But after a while, I discovered I like going out early. It means getting home early. And going through season 5 of Yellowstone. Then let’s talk about eating late and the impact it has on my acid reflux. On the other hand, let’s not. As John put it yesterday, we used to be embarrassed to go to dinner at 5:30, but now an 8:30 dinner sounds way too late. Yes it’s true that we are getting older and our habits are slowly changing, but at least for us and our characters, we’re going by kicking and screaming the whole way. I STILL won’t eat lunch before 12:30. Even if it means having no appetite left for my 5:30 dinner.

See you next week with two new ones,

Andy and John