Friday, October 17, 2014

Dinner should not look back at you

I had a craving for Thai food and a coupon for a free on demand movie rental, so I figured we'd have a date night.
I went to grub hub and found a Thai food place that delivered, it was a little expensive but we needed a date night so I figured I'd splurge.
Looking at the menu I see shrimp rolls the description read "Deep fried shrimp wrapped with rangoon wrapper."
Sounded pretty yummy to me so I added it to my order. A few minutes later grubhub called to tell me they were out of the sticky mango rice I had ordered and asked if I wanted to replace it with anything and for a split second I thought about adding another order of the shrimp rolls but decided on a refund instead.
When the order arrived I was in the other room. As I walked to the kitchen to get a soda husband was setting out the food.

"I'm gonna laugh when you see the shrimp you ordered"

"why? Is it gross looking"? I asked

"No, not gross" he responded with a little laugh

For some reason I didn't pay much attention and dug into my Phad See Ew Noodles, ignoring the greasy paper bag next to me.

A few minutes later I open the paper bag and almost stick my hand in, but happened to look first and see 6 pairs of eyes looking back at me. One of the feeler thingies touched my hand before I could yank it back in horror.
For a second I thought they were still alive and going to come at me seeking revenge for ordering them deep fried.

I cried a little.

The shrimp roll description was a fucking lie! It should have read  "Entire fucking shrimp curled up in a Rangoon wrapper blanket"

Hours later I can still see the image of their beady little eyes peaking out from the bag.

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