The Pants of Destiny

Quick little story:

Right around June of 2009 we went to Dick's to look for a swim suit for my wife for the gym we had joined. As we are looking around, I venture off to the outdoors/hiking apparel area (not being very helpful in the swim suit search). After some perusing I find these pants from The North Face, and being an instinctual frugalista I go price first ($50). I am not a fan of paying much for clothes no matter how "good" they are, but as I inspect the pair of pants I start to think that I really can't live without them. There isn't anything incredibly special about the pants, no utility belt, no water proofing, nothing. They are just this really nice feeling material, and we are just clicking on what seems to quickly becoming a date with how much feeling I am doing... :-) . They are basically cargo pants made from some really light weight material and they are green (a nice dark green, my favorite). End of the day I decide I can't afford to pay $50 for pants right now, and try to find them online at maybe REI or somewhere to see if they are cheaper. I forgot to look at the style or name of the pants so I check out Dick's website and they aren't there...it was like they disappeared (even on The North Face website - nothing).

Last night we were out and stopped by Dick's to look around (as well as Best Buy) and I instantly go back to look for the pants (maybe they are on sale) and like on the websites they are gone. I am honestly kind of sad at this point, I was hoping after this many months they would be on sale, instead they were alllllllllll gone. Feeling like they had escaped me we decide to leave. As we walk towards the exit Angela sees a CLEARANCE rack on some men's clothing racks. Appearing to be all golf gear I make a turn to approach and BOOM THE PANTS! There are 2 pairs of pants left on the clearance rack so what are the chances one will be my size (pretty common 32 x 32). We look at the first pair, turning the waist out to see the tag and right there 32's! and the even better part, they are only $30 now! After all of this I can't say no, the price is right and everything. So that is the story of the pants of destiny...it will go down in history and be told for generations I am sure.

Worst Waiter Ever

So we get back in to town after our trip and we have no food in the house (pretty common). Instead of doing the grocery store and all that good stuff we just wanted to eat some damn food, trying to avoid fast food we decide on Chez Elena Wu (what we expected to be a sit down chinese food restaurant similar to Hong Kong Ruby in Harrisburg). We get seated and look at the menu, it was a very odd assortment of different Asian cuisine and incredibly over priced. As we are looking through the menu deciding maybe we will try something (the food is not the point of the story). So we are looking through and a waitress comes up and asks how we are doing (assuming this would be our waitress, it was not), we tell her we are still looking.

It was at that point we encountered him. Now I know not everyone who comes into this country adapts to our social norms but this guy wasn't even trying. It reminds me of the Friends episode where Mike Hannigan (aka Crap Bag played by Paul Rudd) is hanging out at Ross' apartment and it is super awkward. He then is asked to intercept all phone calls, where Ross states Mike was playing with the boundaries of social conduct.

This guy didn't even come up to us at first but was doing the "I am going to get uncomfortably close, within normal conversation range" in order for you to notice that I am here. He stood about 3 feet away from me over my left shoulder and hovered there not saying a word and not leaving. He was in this waiter limbo where he wasn't taking orders but yet he was so close it was uncomfortable to talk to each other. I knew as soon as he heard us say the name of a food he was going to pounce. This went on for probably 10 minutes, just kept hovering right by us not suggesting anything, not asking if we needed more time just standing there and kind of started pacing after awhile (like CMON AND ORDER ALREADY). We ended up ordering 2 rolls of sushi because it was actually the cheapest thing on the menu (and it tasted like it) and tipping him a minimal amount. This guy was kind of the exclamation point on the suckiness of the restaurant.

Annapolis

We celebrated our 1 year anniversary this past weekend by going to Annapolis, MD. We stayed in our first B&B, which for me was a little weird (staying in a stranger's house) but all in all it was very nice. We enjoyed some of our favorite Annapolis treats like sushi at Joss, gelato at Aromi D'Italia, pain killers at Pusser's and a new favorite fudge at Kilwin's. We went on a self guided tour of the Naval Academy, walked around the cute little streets, enjoyed the architecture, went on a sunset sailing cruise (same boat as used in Wedding Crashers) and did some shopping. Joss is still a 10, gelato is a 10, fudge is at least a 9. Next time we would like to check out Cantler's Crab House and possibly some more water activities!

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