Christmas
Meal
On
11th December it was Christmas meal time for South London and
Surrey, leaving the venue details to Annemarie I wasn’t sure were we
would end up, pie and mash, hot dog stall, fish and chip’s. She phoned
me eight weeks before the meal and gave me a quick verbal on whereabouts
we would be going, then bugged of to the USA for 6 weeks. Of course I
forgot the venue details within 1 millisecond of her telling me, and as
time went on and paid members phoned for restaurant details I was in two
minds whether to send them somewhere nasty, but being as sound as a
pound I waited for her return. Eight weeks later we all meet up at a tai
restaurant in Guildford, being the first one there I was greeted with
half a dozen waiters bowing and directing me to were they would like me
to take my shoes off (which I didn’t bargain on), then onto an open
area with no chairs, yes we were sitting on the deck.
“Drink
sir”, do you do bitter, “Tai beer”, say no more, didn’t know it
was so strong after drinking the first one on an empty stomach. Within
half an hour the crew started to arrive and watching their faces as they
were confronted with no shoes and the no high table element, with a
smile on my face I quickly blamed Annemarie. We all started of by
pulling crackers and blowing up balloons, gently hitting the balloons
around like 5 year olds, after 15 minuets waiting for the first coarse
to arrive everything from the balloons to the contents of the crackers
became a missile for our amusement and everyone blaming everyone to who
was the jackal, As the
first coarse arrived we all settled down and got stuck in, one of the
waiters who looked like he could take your eye out just thinking about
it quickly picked up all the disregarded missiles so we could not re-use
them.
We
were served with loads of different dishes and drinks for the rest of
the night, and bloody tasty they were to, verbal windups filled our
conversations of which I lost a lot of them.
At
the end of the evening some of us started on the Irish coffee’s but at
£3.80 each we thought that we would knock that on the head and not have
a second one. Close on midnight we all decided to leave and go our
separate ways all knowing we had a fantastic time, It was a very
enjoyable night out with people who you haven’t partied with since the
last rally.
On
getting home I received a phone message on my machine, with heavy music
in the background a voice saying that they have all gone of to a night
club and didn’t want me with them, Oh! they do try and wind me
up…….or did they?.
Observation
When in a restaurant of this type, remember as your standing at the
urinal that you
have
no shoes on
Steve
