Waitress: Do you want your eggs scrambled, over easy, well done, or over medium?.
Sue: Over medium.
Waitress: One egg or two?
Sue: Two.
Waitress: Do you want pancakes or toast?
Sue: Toast
Waitress: White, wheat, rye, or sourdough?
Sue is ripping her napkin to shreds. “Wheat.”
Waitress: Coffee, orange juice, milk or tea?
From under the table, Sue yells, “COFFEE!!!”
“She’s gone now. You can come out,” I say.
Sue could just say, “Two eggs over medium with wheat toast and coffee.” Simple. However, there is the, “Would you like to try our special? It includes two eggs, bacon, sausage, or ham with hash browns, fries, or fresh fruit with two pancakes for $6.99?” to get past first.
Sue and I went to breakfast this morning. This time, Sue had the Philly cheese steak with fries. Sue eats dinner in the morning. I had a spinach omelet There was a little old lady seated next to us. She was having two poached eggs and hash brown potatoes and pancakes. I like to see what people around me are eating. I want to know if they got something better than what I got. She had smiling eyes and she asked if we would please pass the pepper. Later I helped her get the top off the syrup bottle. We didn’t chat with her because she wasn’t actually at our table. Sue and I talked about where we would like to spend the holidays this year. I said I wanted to go to Europe. Sue wants to go back to the Islands again. We’ll probably just end up going on a cruise. That part isn’t true. What we really talked about was what we were going to buy at Pet Smart.
I had a bad dream at work the other night. I dreamed that it was dark in our office and everyone was sleeping in their chairs. I was walking around taking down names to put on my spreadsheet and someone took my clipboard away from me and told me to go sit down and go back to sleep. Someone else told me to stop being such a suck-up. Then I woke up and everyone really was asleep. And my clipboard was missing.
But that’s neither here nor there. What’s really on my mind right now are options. I read that too many options can cause stress. It can also cause you to make bad choices. You could end up with wheat toast when you really wanted rye.
