Saturday, January 17, 2009

Bloody Dinner - (Hoping that I don't come off to much of a princess)

This post comes about as a major question: How to avoid princess tendencies, and when is it okay to be princess brat?)

Last night some friends of mine were at Chile's enjoying midiocer chain fake Mexican food. Although I will give props to their fabulous mango margaritas! We were enjoying ourselves at the bar, and as it is one of six restaurants in this tiny armpit hole I live in California it was rather busy, finally we get to sit down and order dinner.

Sharing the classic fajitas with a friend everyone orders tasty middle of the road America. When for some reason one of the dudes sitting across from decides to share this story,

"So, when I woke up this morning, my nose (which he has just had surgery on) was filled with blood."

Exact story. Period. There was nothing to that. What makes this even worse is that my steak was rather pink (which I enjoy just don't talk about anything nasty while I am devouring my meat).

I thought I was going to be sick. I excused myself to the restroom. No big deal. Maybe to vomit. Maybe to walk away without stabbing this guy in the arm...not really sure...

But in all of this I'm thinking, "Am I being a brat?" "Am I dramatizing this situation too much?" And this leads me to my next question,

"Where's the line?"

10 comments:

  1. Welcome to the blogging world! If HP recommends you, I'm in!

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  2. Um, no. It's well-known that you don't talk about bodily functions at dinner. Especially when there is a malfunction. Even more especially if it's over faux tex-mex.

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  3. Definitely not being bratty. All discussion about bodily functions, especially blood in the nose!, should be left for non-eating times. I totally agree with you on the margaritas at Chile's, yum yum :)

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  4. The line? Started with his nose and ended with the word blood. At dinner. EW. No, you were not over the line.

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  5. Welcome! HP rocks, so her baby cousin must too :-) and ewwww on the body malfunction dinner chat! Hope you love blogging and are enjoying your California dream, can't wait to see how the young folks roll ;-)

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  6. Hi! Welcome to the blogging world... I am here via Heather. :)

    The line? I don't know where it is, but that dude definitely JUMPED RIGHT OVER IT. There are some topics that are Not Appropriate for Dinner and that is definitely one of them!!

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  7. Hi, welcome to blog land and I agree...where's the line? Bodily functions at dinner are a no-no.

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  8. Bleh. Of course you know me, I would have had to hear all the bloody details and I would have laughed at you when you ran off to the bathroom. Hee hee. But that's how we older cousins roll. Anything to see the younger and more attractive crowd squirm!! Glad you're making friends out there! Already with a group of peeps! Way to go!

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  9. Here via Heather. That's pretty gross but funny to me. Sorry. Of course it is funny to me because I wasn't the one sitting there eating a rare steak.

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  10. Great start to your blog - you're doing great! And I have to agree with you - eating meat and talking about blood - not a good combo.

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