Watch What You Put in Your Mouth

[mrdreamjeans]

If anyone's been following my journal, you'll remember that in Appleton, WI, I nearly broke a tooth on a chili-covered rock. It resulted in a visit to a dentist in that fair town; the dentist had to file down a rough edge created by the rock in my chili. During my break for Christmas, one of the owners tried to get out of paying the $183 bill; but there were witnesses, so she was shamed into paying.

I didn't write about it, but in Spokane I was eating breakfast in the hotel, a simple serving of bacon and scrambled eggs and found a long white hair in the eggs. Since the waitress had long white hair in a pony tail, she was embarrassed and comped my meal. She also made a remark about how it couldn't be my hair since there wasn't that much hair on my head. (Not an endearing remark:)

Yesterday, in a Thai restaurant around the corner from the theater, I was having a quick dinner before my benefit rehearsal with our Associate Conductor Elaine. I was making my way through a tasty serving of Yellow Curry Chicken when I noticed something glinting on my plate. Buried in the curry, was a two-inch piece of wire, corkscrewed on one end. If I had eaten it, I would have sliced the inside of my mouth open. Elaine's mouth dropped in shock. I held it up and showed it to the owner who was horrified. They did the right thing, apologizing profusely. My meal was free plus they threw in a dessert of fried bananas and coconut ice cream, but I'm beginning to wonder what things I've eaten that I missed:)

Damn! I guess the moral of the story is, "Watch what you put in your mouth!

ps... The Brown Twins gave me their business card in the lobby of our hotel last night and posed for a picture with me:)