Strangest Thing Ever Said to Me at a Restaurant

Sheryl, Matt, Steve and I went to dinner at the local diner last Friday. At the end of dinner, the waiter tapped me on the shoulder.

“Can I ask you a question,” he said.

“Sure.”

“Are you brother and sister, or are you married?” he asked, pointing at Sheryl and me.

I was a little caught off guard. “Married,” I said, shaking my head.

“Oh, well that makes sense. When people are together a long time they start looking like each other.”

Poor Sheryl. I figure that I went up in stature, but that poor girl.

You can imagine what happened next. We laughed for the entire ride home. “Christ,” I said, “I’m glad he didn’t ask me if I had a bulldog, because people start to look like their pets after a while.”

That was the strangest thing every said to me at a restaurant.

Posted on January 27, 2008
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  • My Aussie Mate.....lolololol. Wow, that's a big difference. Too funny.
  • Dr. Zibbs, you're right, it could have been worse. We let our son Matt's hair grwo when he was little...and we got that a bit.

    My Aussie Mate...hmmm, I don't know that one. I know it in America, but will have to look up what it means in OZ. I'm laughing already.
  • Your Aussie Mate
    Strangest thing ever said to me at a US restaurant....'park your fanny there'

    Slightly different meaning here in OZ
  • It could have been worse, could have been, "Is that your brother or are the two of you married?" Sadly, as a child (boy child), on 3 different occasions, people came up to me and asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?"
  • Pinky Bear, that is too funny...masquerading as someone else. Go figure. ;-)

    I told Sheryl we should start wearing matching shirts and sweaters...lol. It was really strange...I'm weirded out about it...she let it go. (It's the normal family dynamic, I must admit.)
  • That is strange. It is true, though, you do begin to look like each other. Of course, I have a different problem, people we know are always calling me by my hubby's name and him by mine. Someone asked me how Jimmi was one day and I said, "He is doing OK, I wonder how his partner is doing though, poor sod."
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