Unpleasant Moments of Wednesday

[kybearfuzz]

Work was okay, but tiring. After work, my buddy Dan texted me and asked if I wanted to grab a drink after work. So after a quick drive home to change clothes, I met Dan at Mainstrasse in Covington. Instead of going to the posh restaurant he recommended, I suggested going to a local German restaurant, Wertheim's, that I recalled as being really good in the past.

The place was empty and the waitress, an older blonde lady, acted put out that she had to show us to a table. When we tried the meals we ordered, something was amiss. The potato pancakes were stale almost like it was leftovers from last night. I ordered the rouladen with potato dumplings. The dumplings were soft and tasteless and the rouladen steak was tough and the inside was bland and mushy. It was awful. After three bites, I just couldn't eat it and pushed it aside. It tasted like something that had been reheated or microwaved from something old. Even Dan's sandwich was mediocre. The server asked me if something was wrong with it and I told her that it just didn't taste good. She offered to get me something else, but I suspected the whole menu was this way. Sadly, I paid for the meal, but I'll never go back. I told Dan that we'll go wherever he wants with no argument next time.

After dinner I drove to get an oil change. I hate doing this because they always try to get me to have other things done. Why can't they just change the damn oil and leave it be? They wanted to change the air filter for $21.99. I begged off and went to KMart and bought the same filter for $4.95 and changed it myself. It took less than 30 seconds to change and they were going to charge me an extra $17 to do it for me. I feel sorry for the grandmothers who go in and feel it is something they can't do. I'm going to look into learning to change my oil myself.

Comments

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

Be absolutely sure that you don't confuse the oil drain plug with the transmission drain. Folks do that more often than you might think.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

cars still have air filters??? who knew? next you are going to tell me they still require oil :P

(I used to always do my own car work but for the last 2 cars I barely even know how to open the hood LOL)

[qbear.livejournal.com]

I used to change my own oil all the time---it was really easy on the older cars. But the problem today is where to put the used oil. I think service stations are required to take it, but you can't just pour it down a catch basin like we used to.

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

Aiyiyi!

Sorry about the rouladen. And the dumplings. That would have offended me to my Slovak core. I would have spoken to the cook.