being a dumbass
This isn't quite what the question asked, more the opposite. The meal was lovely, it was the customer that was crap, namely, me...

Me and the girlfriend decide to go out for a curry at a wonderful Indian, where the food is always excepional and the service lovely.

As always, we start with poppadoms. As you probably all know, when you have poppadoms they bring out some sauces in a fancy holder that spins round so you can get to each sauce. In this case there were 4 sauces; mango chutney, yogurty stuff, some hot stuff, and a watery brown sauce, which I think had something to do with grapes...

Anyway, the girlfriend and I are chatting and I start to absent-mindedly play with the top of the sauce tray, and find that if I spin the top a bit, the whole thing willspin rather nicely, and if you let go it would keep spinning rather satisfactorally for 10-20 seconds.

After about a minute of doing this, I'm back chatting intently with the girlfriend, but still absently spinning the sauce tray.

It is then I notice a streaking effect out of the corner of my eye and turn to see that the grape like sauce is streaming out of it's tray on to the table making a perfect large brown circle on the table cloth.

I kept it covered with a napkin for most of the meal, but I never forget the slightly shocked, slightly confused look on the waiters face when he took everything away at the end of the meal, and saw the new circle design on his table cloth...
(stubbledchin, Fri 28 Apr 2006, 14:23, Reply)