Thursday, December 01, 2005

free stuff is both timeless and ageless

regardless of how old i get, the prospect of free food never loses it's appeal. i love eating. i love going out to eat, and i love it when food is prepared for me. i just got an e-mail from a local indian restaurant called bukhara. marleen and i eat there a lot. when they bring the bill, they offer a little invitation flyer to join their frequent diner club. i realize that sounds tacky. it looks tacky too. it's orange and there's a tiny picture of some old-school indian dudes on it with illustrations of tassels on each side. regardless of the tackiness, i joined their preferred diner club, and i must say that the benefits are fantastic. the e-mail i got today offered me $15 off on my next visit because my birthday is this month. that's an entire entree. in october, marleen's parents were here, and we got a sizable discount then as well because we had amassed so many diner points. it pays to be a frequent diner.
i know with all my aged wisdom that the food is not really free. it is discounted, and the restaurant still makes plenty of money on it. that doesn't matter. if it mattered, i would buy the ingredients and replicate the cuisine at home. the joy comes from being willing to pay for one thing, and finding out that you don't have to give as much as you thought. the joy comes from feeling awkward when you order the incredibly girly pistachio shake. even more joy comes when marleen gets annoyed that the guy tries fill her glass with water every two minutes. eating out is rad. do thirty year olds us the word rad?

until next time,
jim

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

who doesn't like to eat? Eating is a non-guilty pleasure...

Good on you!

4:27 PM  

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