Notes in the key of C

    If you’re from the Islands, chances are you like Chinese cuisine. (See, I was gonna say Chinese food, but doesn’t “cuisine” add an exotic, tantalizing twist to it?) Anywayyyyyyyy…..as I was saying, being an Island boy myself, that kind of food rates right at or near the top of my choices of going-out-to-eat or getting-takeout food.

     So, it’s lunch time and I swear there’s no place to eat near where our office is.  I jump in the Jeep, head downtown (about a ten minute drive) and pass by the “Fortune Chef”. Ahhhhhhh! Visions of delicious sweet and sour pork, kung pao chicken and “governor’s shrimp” are dancing in my head.

After all, “Fortune Chef” (then located on the other side of town) used to be one of the best places to go.  So, I thought, “what the hell, it’s gotta be good!”  I hit the drive-thru. First rule broken!  That rule is, if it’s lunch time and there’s few or no cars in the parking lot, keep on going. But my hunger blurred my sense of reason and I ordered the broccoli and chicken.  Back at the office, I sat in the breakroom, my broccoli and chicken and a nice, cold can of Coke in front of me, ready to do some damage.  Okay, they must have misunderstood me.  I said broccoli and chicken. What I was looking at was rice and broccoli. Hey, how come some of the broccoli is green and crunchy and some of it is brown and limp?  And WHERE’S THE CHICKEN? I searched underneath the rice………NO chicken. I flipped through the multi-colored broccoli. There’s one! And by the time I’d swallowed as much as I could before I lost my appetite, I had found two or three more small pieces. Hey, the rice was pretty good.  And I didn’t even have to pay for the headache, churning stomach and the irrestible urge to deposit what I DID eat immediately afterwards in the nearest bathroom.  Suffice to say I won’t be eating there again.

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