How to give an old lady a heart attack.

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Posted by Greg | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 23-05-2006

Danyelle was telling me how she and Chris went to eat at Maggiano’s over the weekend, and it reminded me of a little story I thought I would share. One morning when Jackie and I lived in Calibre Springs Apartments in Atlanta I was out walking Scooter and came across a woman’s wallet in the parking lot. I picked it up and looked inside to get a name and address. Right away I knew the face of the lady on her driver’s license, but the address was not of any apartment around. The office was not open, so I could not turn it in. I decided to wait until lunch to go by there. When I came back from lunch luck would have it that the lady was out looking for her wallet. I walked up to her and said “are you looking for this?” I was a little cautious when approaching her, I was afraid she would think I stole it or something and would come out swinging (I know, I’m weird). Anyway she was so thrilled to see her wallet; she insisted that she repay me. I insisted that she do no such thing and it was no problem. She kept on and on and really wanted to give me some money, and then she moved on to getting me a gift card for some place to eat. She kept asking me “where did I like to eat?” I do not like being put on the spot, and my mind went blank, I could not for the life of me think of a restaurant I liked to eat at, so I try to think of any inexpensive places to eat around Atlanta. So without realizing it I said the 1st place that came into my head “MAGGIANO’S!” immediately I saw her gulp and stumble and go pale in the face, and in my head I’m like “no! no! Chili’s I mean Chili’s!!” but it was too late. She regrouped took a deep breath and said she would get me some beer, and walked off. I went from feeling like a hero for finding her wallet to a zero in 10 seconds flat. So to this day whenever I see of hear about Maggiano’s I think about that poor little old lady and how she thought I was trying to rip her off by asking for a big fancy full sit down meal for finding her wallet. I never saw any beer or the lady again, and by the way if you don’t know by now Maggiano’s is Not Cheap! Plus if you see a wallet on the ground, run away from it. (No don’t do that, I’m kidding.)

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