🚀 go-pugleaf

I stopped at a popular restaurant in Manassas for a late lunch yesterday.
I had a linguine marinara dish, and scraped the last of the platter into
one large forkfull.

Fortunately, I stopped chewing immediately on discovering a large and very
solid object: a dark grey stone, measuring about 3/4" from tip to tip!  I
dropped it back on the plate with a solid "clank" and mentioned it to the
waitress when she returned.  

I'm sure the stone was thoroughly cooked, but this made me feel somewhat
queasy nonetheless.  I guess I should have been happy that the foreign item
wasn't something more malign.

Of course, the manager stopped by and insisted on paying for my meal.  It
became apparent to me that while he was being polite, he thought I had stuck
the stone on the plate (which was, after all, bare) as a way of getting off
cheaply.  It was also apparent that he didn't want to create a scene and 
was agreeing to pay for the meal to avoid one.

I told him that the free meal wasn't my objective and that I wanted him to 
be aware what was getting into his food.  He answered only that he "didn't
care to speculate" how it got in there, and insisted on paying.

The only result for me, besides saving $10, is a queasy feeling and total
mystery as to how a rock got into my meal!

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                                       Scott R. Chilcote
                                       scotty@cais.com