When "one" sounds like "three."

Today I went into the big city to see a movie and have some lunch. When I can, I try to avoid chain places only because I can make my own damn hamburger and it won't cost me $10. But, I have a gift certificate I got from work for Applebee's so I figured I'd save my own cash and go there.

It was a little after one and the place wasn't very busy. The kid in charge of seating people walks over to where I am waiting. He looked like he was a twelve year old stoner. Or, at the least, had taken too much Ritalin this morning. He asks me how many, which you'd think would be obvious because I was the only one standing there at the moment. Still, I could be meeting people there I suppose. Anywho, I answer, "One."

He proceeds to grab 3 menus and three sets of silverware. I was almost going to say something, but I can just see a couple people have walked in the door behind me. Okay, he's multi-tasking and going ahead and grabbing stuff for the next table. Fine.

Nope. We go to the table he's selected and he starts setting down more than one menu. I get his attention and say, "umm...it's only one."

He looks at me, completely surprised and says "I thought you said three." Now, I can fake my way through some French, but I am in no way bilingual. That being said, off the top of my head, I am unaware of any language where "one" sounds like "three." Except maybe the language of "I don't want to be here today and I'm not really paying any attention to you because you aren't a hot 20 year old." Perhaps in that language the words are almost exactly alike.

Lunch was okay. I wouldn't have directly paid what I did for that salad. The service was okay and at least nothing got spilled on me.

Now, the movie. I went and saw The Hangover. The vote is still not quite in on it. There were some very funny parts and I really liked Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis. I also thought the idea of us finding out what happened the same time that the guys do worked to the movie's advantage. I just didn't laugh through the whole movie the same way I did with 40 Year Old Virgin and Superbad. It's a funny, raunchy film--good for adults, but I don't know that I put it up there with my favorites. Speaking of adult films, it was almost refreshing to see trailers for R rated movies since the last few trailers I've seen have been for G Force and other kid's flicks. I'd almost forgotten what an adult trailer looked like. But, I have to admit I'm frightened to see Kyra Sedgewick and Michael C. Hall in a trailer for Gamer, which looks just awful.

I might try to get to Drag Me To Hell this week. It will be fitting since this week both sales engineers are on vacation and it's just us chicks and our boss at work. Sounds a bit like hell to me.