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10 February 2012
Valentine's Day Dinner at The Waffle House! People on my FB stream are passing this around to mock it. But I'm on record now as saying: if anyone wants to take me to Waffle House for Valentine's, I'm in!
I'd do it. I think the only time I ever did anything on Valentine's Day was with his oddball I had just started seeing.
Too bad there are no Waffle Houses or White Castles nearby. I may ask someone totally inappropriate out to eat.
Remember what Dan Savage says, kids. And those discount butt plugs at Aldi are not for insertion.
Maybe I should take someone to the truck stop. Free sandwiches and $1.30 for your second chicken fried steak. And they have wifi. Sometimes.
I think my current plans are two tests and secret valentines.
I am so thinking of scaring the crap out a boy right now, though. Which one, which one. So young and so scared. Where are my evil dice? My dice of evil.
Oh, I know. I will take their pictures and post them with stats and let you guys pick.
I just had some more. That gravy is kind of amazing. I can't remember ever getting one before.
Well, one boy down. Upon chatting he seems so... conventional. And so young.
I just feel maternal.
Yeah, I can't do it. No spark, no nothing, crazy power differential. I'm surrounded by children. They may be cute but I just want to smell their heads for that baby scent.
Why do I never go for the pretty ones.
I used to love all you can eat buffets as a kid. I'd take plate after plate of Swedish meatballs, nothing else. My mother thought I was nuts. I couldn't get enough Swedish meatballs. So Ikea is sounding real good about now.
Splunge, I still love all-you-can-eat buffets, especially breakfast buffets! I have fond memories of my parents taking us to the rooftop dining room of the posh hotel for brunch (though my mother tells me that probably only happened a handful of times).
A few years ago, my mom took me as her companion on a group tour of Costa Rica. I was (privately, in my head) a little snobby about the idea of a packaged tour and all its scared-tourist implications, but I rapidly discovered one great luxury of these tours designed for elderly upper-middle-class Americans: lavish breakfast buffets at every single hotel. It was FANTASTIC.
As recently as yesterday, I was searching online for a posh breakfast buffet in the area, hoping to find one that rivals the Sunday brunches I remember from my childhood.