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mmmDelicious2000 (9:31:11 AM): omg, did I mention jerry springer dinner theatre?

mmmDelicious2000 (9:32:16 AM): so stephen got this flyer for free dinner at this family style italian place called buca di beppo

mmmDelicious2000 (9:32:20 AM): first, it sounds dirty

agentdelicious (9:32:29 AM): ha! totally.

mmmDelicious2000 (9:32:33 AM): turns out it's supposed to mean "big joe's basement"

mmmDelicious2000 (9:32:45 AM): but the story is fabricated and the decor is tacky

mmmDelicious2000 (9:32:58 AM): like, "hey, this looks I-talian, let's put it here"

mmmDelicious2000 (9:33:25 AM): like 3D pope pictures (they're phone number ends in POPE as well, no joke.... and they use it)

mmmDelicious2000 (9:33:35 AM): and cans of tomatoe sauce as decor

mmmDelicious2000 (9:33:48 AM): so they were giving away dinner because they'd just renovated

mmmDelicious2000 (9:33:51 AM): the basement

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:16 AM): which is where big joe would have wanted it... .had he actually existed in something other than a clever marketing fishtank

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:23 AM): so we're there and it's 97 degrees

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:29 AM): fine. free food.

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:35 AM): me joe and stephen

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:41 AM): ben had something. as usual

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:44 AM): he always does

mmmDelicious2000 (9:34:48 AM): anyway.

mmmDelicious2000 (9:35:10 AM): we find out we're only entitled to certain menu options and a finite number of those menu options

mmmDelicious2000 (9:35:22 AM): so it's free, but you can't just eat as much as you'd like

mmmDelicious2000 (9:35:34 AM): as if pasta really costs $23 per plat

mmmDelicious2000 (9:36:11 AM): so we get wine (not included) after cocktails and we get our really greasy calemari

mmmDelicious2000 (9:36:40 AM): so far the only foul is the decor and the prevalance of douchebags, baby-mama's and b&t

mmmDelicious2000 (9:36:46 AM): then we wait

mmmDelicious2000 (9:36:58 AM): granted we're hanging out and having a good time

mmmDelicious2000 (9:37:14 AM): but then it gets to where we've gone through our bottle of wine and still no entree

mmmDelicious2000 (9:37:19 AM): so then we get our dessert

mmmDelicious2000 (9:37:22 AM): before dinner

mmmDelicious2000 (9:37:30 AM): we send it back, tell them to bring our dinner

mmmDelicious2000 (9:37:45 AM): finally get dinner, not our side... they ran out of fucking green beans

mmmDelicious2000 (9:38:02 AM): so we get salad. on the house. wow, free food with a free meal? what a deal

mmmDelicious2000 (9:38:23 AM): get another bottle of wine, tell them it better be comp'd and wait for dinner

mmmDelicious2000 (9:38:36 AM): get the chicken. eh, fine. nothing bad, just chicken

mmmDelicious2000 (9:38:40 AM): salad's fine

mmmDelicious2000 (9:38:45 AM): so finally we get bread

mmmDelicious2000 (9:38:47 AM): after dinner

mmmDelicious2000 (9:39:05 AM): and now it's like 9:15 and we sat at 7:15 and joe's joe and needs to go

mmmDelicious2000 (9:39:40 AM): and I'm starting to get angry since I have to BART my ass home and won't get there until 10:30 (thank god for the subtle knife to keep me company)

mmmDelicious2000 (9:40:03 AM): so dessert comes, and it goes to the eurotrash/rice queens next to us who sat at 8:15

mmmDelicious2000 (9:40:27 AM): the fat girl b&t table (7:45) starts in on the waitress that it's ours, that we've been here longer than anyone

mmmDelicious2000 (9:40:49 AM): waitress plopps on eurotrash, rice queen has jerry springer moment with fat girl

mmmDelicious2000 (9:40:51 AM): stephen stands up

mmmDelicious2000 (9:41:37 AM): starts getting jiggy, managers, fat girls leave, joe pays check ($52... free wine, free food, just paid for cocktails and first bottle.... not bad), I pay joe, we get the fuck out

mmmDelicious2000 (9:41:41 AM): such was dinner

mmmDelicious2000 (9:41:59 AM): oh, and stephen forgets his cell phone in the dungeon so he has to go back into the studio audience

mmmDelicious2000 (9:42:07 AM): tah dah.