Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Phrase you won't see on a fortune cookie


Today is my birthday and tomorrow is Trent's so we decided a celebratory dinner was in order. We let Trent pick the restaurant, knowing full well it would be one of our favorites, Cafe East. A local Chinese buffet, that has soft-serve for dessert(real authenic chinese huh?). Now, Mia is well known here. All the waitresses know her by name and try to get her to speak Mandarin with them. They were astonished one day when she said "Ne-how"(hello) back to one of them.(I didn't tell them she learned that from Dora)
Anyway, we have had some trouble in the past with the amount of care they try to give her. The waitresses would come by and clean her tray, feed her bites of food, glare at me when her mouth needed wiping, etc. We almost decided not to go back there because we couldn't have a decent conversation with all of the "chinese ladies" around, but the food was so good that David devised a plan. We would ask for the table all the way in the front right next to the steam tables. That way the managers would see them all "standing around." His plan has worked for quite a while now. Until tonight.....
The waitress was an older Chinese woman and we remember her well. She was the one who almost sent Zane into a panic attack about 2 years ago. We were all sitting around the table and she was asking us why we wanted another baby? why China? etc. Finally she looked at Zane, smiled, pointed to him and said, "Oh! he could marry her(Mia) and you will have One BIG HAPPY FAMILY" Once we resuscitated Zane we explained to her that would not be happening. She looked a little confused and walked away.
Well tonight, we had "BIG happy family" waiting on us again. She looked at Mia and said "She will be beautiful when grows up" I thought it was a very nice compliment until....she said,"When China girls are all scrunched up as baby they are Ugly, but then get big and will be beautiful" "Your girl was Ugly, but it OK now because she getting big and will be beautiful" Well it took all David had to stay seated. Don't worry he defended her honor very nicely. Not quite sure how much of a tip she got but I bet it wasn't much.
** Please, no posses need to be formed, Mia's dad has this under control**

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