Your what tastes like what?

"My fish tastes fishy.”

I blankly stared at the woman who was sending her trout back to the kitchen because it tasted like fish.

“No fucking shit, Sherlock.” I thought but I didn’t say. I’m not going to lie….my normal poker face was in ultimate FAIL mode. I felt myself becoming dumber just by holding eye contact with her. Where on planet earth do these people come from and who allows them out in public?

“Ma’am, it’s fish. What were you expecting it to taste like?” I politely asked with my wide, unforgiving eyes.

“It’s just got that fishy fish taste. I can’t eat that. It’s just…..” She pauses as she smacks her tongue on the roof of her mouth and points to it. “You know. I just can’t eat that.”

I feel like my soul cried a little that day. I thought, “Pretty please—just think about what you’re saying out loud…. where people can hear you. If you don’t like the taste of fish, then don’t order fish. Stay home and slave away in the kitchen until your inner genius brings fish that tastes like chicken to life. Then I hope you make millions of fucking dollars and live off royalties for the next ten years so that you never have to step foot in my place of business again”.

Just a thought of the day: People die of starvation every single day! This country has so much food that we have endless diets, diet pills and gymnasiums to try and counteract the plethora of food we enjoy. So for half of a second, be thankful for your rice that tastes like rice, or whatever you ordered because we are lucky to have it.