The Most Fun Restaurant Ever. Ever.
So, I like my friends. We all go way back and can recount the good times while looking forward to new, even better ones. Great friends. Great times. But I do have one complaint. We never seem to have THAT good of a time at the Olive Garden.
Am I missing something? I’ve watched the commercials – people are practically shitting themselves because they’re laughing so hard and having such a good time. And here’s the thing, it’s always really early in the meal – like when the waiter/waitress is taking the order. Now, I understand, you work your way through a few bottles of Merlot and you all start getting a little loose. But at this point, all they’ve had is the complimentary water.
Even worse, this is the place of the never-ending pasta bowl. It may be me, but when I get super stuffed and full, the last thing I want to do is bust up laughing over some lame observation about alfredo sauce. I just want to lie on a couch, unbutton my pants and wait out the extreme discomfort.
So is Olive Garden really that fun or should they consider toning it down a bit? I’ve only been a couple times and each one I think was one of those meals where I had gotten sun burned earlier in the day and it was starting to get really red at dinner time. So that feeling mixed with the air conditioning made the whole thing uncomfortable. This could be why I don’t see it as being that fun of a place.
I guess I just hate knowing that I’m not living up to the experience the Olive Garden is promising me – you know, that I should be having the most super fucking fun and awesome restaurant experience this side of Applebee’s.
I’m with you, but I think Fridays commercials are even worse. Everyone’s always having even more fun, and marveling at the gourmet onion rings or whatever someone is bringing them. Not to mention there’s some fat low budget chef who looks like the dude from smashmouth telling you he personally came up with the $4 entrees you are getting. And giving you advice on how to pick up chicks at the other table. Cuz fridays is apparently full of attractive single people eating with their same sex friends, waiting for an impromptu double date to start.
If you disagree I’ll be a dick and point out your misspelling of complimentary.
My favorite Olive Garden commercial:
Dad: I love our family tradition of passing our plates around the table.
Daughter: When did that become a family tradition?
Dad: When you ordered that!
[laughter all around]
Really? I don’t know about other families, but that would not go over well with any of my 5 brothers or sisters. If I even attempted to reach over to take a bite off of their plate, I would lose an arm. That’s a guarantee.
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