I was having breakfast at one of our local restaurants the other day. The breakfast was absolutely delicious, but the coffee was cold!
I called the waitress and told her that the coffee was cold and could I possible have a cup of hot coffee. The waitress stared at me for a few minutes and said, “You want a hot cup of coffee?” I said, “Yes, I would like a cup of hot coffee.” She stared at me again and then said, “I’ll see what I can do.”
She called the head waiter and told him that I wanted a cup of hot coffee. The head waiter stared at the waitress for about a minute and said he would see what he could do.
So the head waiter called the owner of the restaurant and told him that there was a customer who wanted a cup of hot coffee.
Well, the owner hesitated for a minute and then told the head waiter to give the customer a cup of hot coffee. So the head waiter called the waitress and told her to give me a cup of hot coffee.
Well, the waitress came over to my table and stared at me for a moment and said that she was going to get me a cup of hot coffee. So after waiting for almost 20 minutes more, she finally brought me a cup of hot coffee.
Incidentally, while waiting for the hot coffee, my eggs got cold. So I called the waitress back to my table again and told her that while waiting for my cup of hot coffee, my eggs got cold! Consequently, I asked if I could get some more eggs that were hot. She stared at me again and said, “I’ll see what I can do.” I said, “Never mind, because if I have to wait for hot eggs, my coffee will get cold!”
So, I asked for my check, went to another restaurant and had breakfast. The breakfast was delicious, but the coffee was cold.
Remember when my brother “Baby” used to own the Sport Center on Front Street in Berwick? He loved to cook and use to do a lot of cooking there with Mrs. Noelie Landry, who was his helper and she was quite adept at cooking Creole cuisine.
“Baby” especially loved fried frog legs. One of my brother’s trapping buddies used to bring him frogs in a burlap sack and “Blue Steel,” a black man who used to work for my brother, always took care of them and took them out of the sack and prepared them for cooking.
The trapper wanted to get a few laughs so one day he brought in a sack that had two huge snakes in it – creepy, crawly water moccasins. He told “Blue Steel” to reach in the sack and get some frogs. “Blue Steel” reached in the sack and came up with a large moccasin wrapped around his arm.
Did you see the space ship that went up with John Glenn? Well, that’s the way “Blue Steel” went up in the air – straight up, about 10 feet! He started running while still in the air, and when he hit the ground, a good 20 feet from where he started, he took off, leaving a trail of smoke!
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