Friend, dinner invitation, and spit in the food
Someone I know works as a waitress at a Thai restaurant. She wanted to go out with me long time ago, but I didn’t feel like being more than friends with her, so I remained a friend. Usually, every few months, I meet and ask her about her experience with the customers at her work. She always tells me that if she doesn’t like someone, she tries to mix something in their food. Sometimes it’s extra salt, sometimes it’s extra spices and sometimes it’s some spit in the water or the drink. Yes, spit with S and a P and I and a T. It makes her feel better, she says.
I’ve never eaten at the restaurant she works at. Yesterday, she emailed me to ask if I would like to go there this coming week, as she could have me order things for free while she worked, and she could also sit with me whenever possible. I would like to go there for three main reasons. First, I like thai food. Second, it would be free food. Third, I like hanging out with interesting people.
She is a good person who does not hold grudges in conversations, so she acts normally and likes to mention from time to time how things may have been different had we been dating. However, I’m also wondering if she would mix anything in my food or drink because I had refused to go on a date with her, or proceed further into the romantic field. I joked about this with her, and she laughed it off, though I’m still wondering. Maybe she was not thinking about it, and now my joke has put the idea in her head.
What do you think? If you were in this situation, would you go and eat food at that place, feeling comfortable with anything you ate or drank? I’m sure she means me no harm, and I’m sure that even if she is forced by her uncontrollable inner self to mix something in my food, it won’t be poisonous? Would it be bad if I rejected kissing a beautiful girl long time ago, just to end up drinking her spit through a glass of water? hmmmmm >< hmmmmm. What are your views on this?
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( April 30th, 2006 at 7:03 pm )
I think there are worse things than spit in the water to worry about. I doubt she’d try to posion you, or anything harmful.
Have you seen the movie Waiting? I always thought that people in restaurants did things to food. That’s why I always try to be as nice as possible. Where is this Thai restaurant btw?
( April 30th, 2006 at 7:04 pm )
oh, does she know about your blog? Because if I were her, and I read this, I would spit in your water or something
( April 30th, 2006 at 11:18 pm )
lol.. i doubt that gurl reads the blog.. but hmm i dun think i would eat @ that place though.. i would if i could go to the kitchen n see everything myself
BEsSssSs tell me if u go there hehehe.. interesting update post coming up next hehehehe
( May 1st, 2006 at 11:54 am )
I always thought people do that in restaurants, but I never let it worry myself since the cooking part would sterilize the food anyway. Oh and if you want to poison someone you can always place turpentine for water, not many people can tell the difference!
( May 1st, 2006 at 3:01 pm )
absolutely not! :\
Unfortunately, I would not be comfortable at all. I’d be so paranoid.
But that’s just me
( May 1st, 2006 at 5:44 pm )
Wow, she actually spits?!! I understand the "extra salt", "extra spices" part, but spit?! Wow…
Hehe about her hinting about dating and all… I think I’m like that with my crush… Well, I haven’t talked to him about it ever since that one day in December, though, so it’s not really hinting about dating…
But anyways… Hmm… If she was your friend, I don’t think she’d do anything with your food…
Hmm… If I trusted my friend enough, and we’re close friends and not just acquaintances, then I wouldn’t mind eating at the restaurant. Other than that, I might be a little worried…
( May 1st, 2006 at 9:45 pm )
Well.. it really depends on how much you trust her then. If she really still holds you rejecting a date with her against you, then she’s no true friend of yours. Hopefully you’ll make a good choice.
I don’t know what to tell you, though..
( May 2nd, 2006 at 3:37 am )
Hmm.. that’s tricky. Well, it’s pretty much up to you.
I think if she actually planned to do that, I mean, spit in your drink, she wouldn’t have mentioned doing that to other people.
( May 2nd, 2006 at 9:11 pm )
Stacee — > I’ve seen the movie Waiting, heh. It makes me wonder about food at diners a lot. I’m sure she’s not trying to poison me. : )
Good thing you’re not her. :p I think she won’t mind me posting this, though I can’t be sure until I taste that water. :p
JeSs — > I doubt it too since she’s not into blogs, though now I’m wondering about it too, heh. I’ll tell her I posted about it if I go tomorrow. :p
JErm — > hee hee, yes, I thought that too. And, I also used to work at food places before.
Thanks for the tip, lol [writes it down]. :p
Valerie — > Yeah, I feel a bit "hmmmm" too, though I feel like hmmm most of the time. I’m still thinking.
Chau — > Yeah, she actually spits. =\ Hmmm, I trust her as not to poison me [I think, :p], but something like that, now that I think about it more, heh, hmmm, not sure.
Chelsea — > She doesn’t hold that too much now, and we’re friends who keep in touch and are on really good terms. Hmmm, reading that comment, I’m thinking of going. :p I’ll update on this soon.
Kxia — > Yeah, really tricky. Hmmm, I guess you’re right too. Maybe, though, she thought about it later. She has, however, stopped mentioning the spit and other things she does, lately and only talks about rude customers, and not what she does anymore [in the last 3 calls, as far as I can remember]. :p lol hmmmm
( December 2nd, 2006 at 12:23 am )
I never go out after hearing that same story from an ex-boyfriend who worked in a food resturant before he ended up at Child Protective Services. Especially when I feel I am hated. I get a lot of guys who dont call me to go out on a date. And since then, dating havnt been the same.
Peace and love
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