Ture Story:

Myself and the ramrod of the outfit packed a camp into the Weminuche wilderness area for a elk hunt with a few friends. The trailhead was north of Bayfeild, up toward Valiceto Lake. Pass by a small country store and a restaurant on the way in, kinda rustic and quant.

Camp packed in and squared away. It would be a few days to kill before our guests would arrive, so I got to thinkin’… Hell, if Ronnie and I leave before day light we could ride the thirty miles from camp to the trailhead, jump in the truck and beat it up the road to that little bistro and have us a steak before she closed up for the evening.

Get to restaurant about sundown, parking lot kinda full, but what the hay. I pull the pickup around back behind all those fancy foreign cars and park on the gravel. As we entered from a side door in a little gift shop or something, I could see straight into the dinning room.

I says to Ron, “There’s a table for two right there,” so, we have us a seat jest like we owned the place…Just about that time this waiter sashayed by our table, slowed down jest long enough to give us the evil eye. I take me one of those ‘look arounds’ and there’s one of them matordees’ wearin’ a hammer tailed coat of sorts giving us that same look. At first, I thought maybe they didn't like the looks of my engraved 44 Special.

Must have been a whole room full of folks awaitin’ on that one table, cause they sure nuff got in a hurry to get us feed and outta there. The young man that finally got up the nerve to take our order (we been in the hills ‘bout a week and just came as we were) was extra polite, he ask how we want our meal prepared and even smiled when I told him, “Burnt on the outside and raw in the middle.”

To say a couple of ol’ cowboys were out of their element would be an understatement.
And we got that lesson for only fifty bucks apiece.

BTW one heck of a good meal.

Su Amigo,
Dave

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"IN GOD WE TRUST"

It shouldn't matter what you looked like- your money is as green as anyone else's.

Glad the steaks were good!

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Lost it all in a boat accident

The wife and I was driving around the other day and she was getting hungry. She saw some fancy high falootin eatery and says something like, "I bet we couldn't afford to even eat there." To which I responded something like, "The food ain't no better than anywhere else, but the atmosphere must be from another planet."

Yah but they took your money anyway, didn’t they. Sir, glad that you know the right way to have a piece of beef cooked.

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Always Stay Strong!

Maybe I'm just kinda anti-social, but I always feel out of place in a fancy eatery. But they do seem to accept my money without fail. My wife told me one time that people could just look at me and tell that I'm a hick. Thanks alot honey. that was about 30 Yrs. ago. I don't think she still believes that, does she?
Piece,
gordon

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better have that checked

...I go to eat. Not to show off to the whoever-whatevers are in there. I don't like to eat at a place where you have to wear a jacket and tie, get a reservation in advance, and so on.

Years ago, I supervised a place that had a fancy eatery inside...one of the hang-outs for "society". I looked at their menu...I wondered if you could go in there for an estimate on a dinner roll! Portions were small and had names that you could figure out if you ate it or go to the doctor and be treated for it. Had a dress code, too. Two scoops of orange sherbet served in a small crystal ashtray (well, that's what it looked like) was $30 back then(early 90's). I asked the property manager of the building about this. She stuck her nose in the air and explained "You don't come here for the food, you come here to be seen with the proper people."

Never ate there...never would...wouldn't recommend it...and if you saw the kitchen...well, YOU WOULDN'T EITHER! (squeek squeek!)

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The Last Standing Knight

I know people that are serious about food. Each ingredient has a pedigree and they go on and on about how this restaurant cooks this and that does that... It's all I can do not to mention what all that food looks like a day later....

I don't have many friends.......

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I used to be disgusted..