The Year of the Dragon

I went with my roomates this afternoon to get Chinese food from the food hut in the middle of Broliums grocery store's produce section. Odd I know, but nevertheless true. As I was eating the burnt rice coated with pepper, I was reminded of a favorite experience I had some time ago.

We were headed to a church in Syracuse to play some volleyball. We picked up a friend that had moved from England. We met him at his place where he showed us his massive inscence collection and a tipi he had built out of poles in his yard. He went to go change into some "active wear" before the game. He came back out in some pink capris and asked if that was appropriate active wear. It was good enough so we went on our way. We stopped at Wegman's to hit up their massive chinese buffet bar. It was priced by the pound so we all sparingly choose what to fill our white plastic containers with. Except our English friend, he just started filling his tray with everything there was. He went to weigh his carton and print out the price tag when it rang up to over 40 bucks! We all laughed as friends probably shouldn't but do, and he decided to bite the bullet. He then realized he hadn't even brought his wallet. He reacted quickly, he walked over to the trash and casually dropped his carton in. A nearby employee saw this all happen and came over to confront him about it. He asked "Did you just throw away a full carton of food?" "Umm, no." As we were leaving, our foreign friend was feeling pretty guilty. He remarked he couldn't believed he'd flat out lied to that guy. He then vowed to return one day and to buy a 40 dollar toaster, then after paying for it to put it back on the shelf. It was a day to remember indeed.