wait, tuesday is moe's day!

there are certain things which easily become habit. in the past couple months, the habit has been d'egg on wednesday lunch for meatloaf day! ed, tom, joe, brad (before the job with the wonky hours), occasionally juz and i would head down to norfolk's favorite diner. we'd discuss everrything from football (american) to football (soccer) to shoes (to make me feel better) to our plan b's. juz would even tell me when i was not up to fashion par. i got my meatloaf with sides of collards and fries and a big old glass of sweet tea; it was soooo good.

then, it became neccessary for key members of the group to implement plan b, and wednesday arrived almost a week later. there was no way d'egg would happen without the presence of the cheddar man and the aussie (breadhouse was also feeling under the weather). i guess i should have seen this change coming when the collards sucked last week. and we didn't get rolls. and the refills were low. but anyway.

it became necessary for hollywood and i to drown our sorrows in the flour tortilla-y goodness of moe's. let's be clear. we go to moe's a lot. ever since amateur poker began (and even since it ended) tuesday has been moe's day. yesterday was no exception.

but, desperate times and all that. now, this was not the first time there has been moe's two times in a week. usually it's a covert operation involving avoiding the pipsqueak weasel, and never saying the word "burrito" out loud (thank goodness for ichat). however, it was most certainly the first time there's been moe's two days in a row! believe me, this did not go unnoticed by our new friend ruby, the manager of moe's.

ruby often talks to us on tuesday nights. last night, in fact, she noticed we were sitting near the front, rather than at our usual back table. yes, i explained all the back tables were taken. today, she saw hollywood and me right when we walked in the door.

two days in a row?? she asked.

shhh! it's a secret! we replied.

we chatted her up a bit while waiting to pay. what are you guys up to? - just escaped the office for some lunch. the cashier rang us up (my turn to get lunch)... and out of no where- ruby starts pushing the magic manager button on the register... and gives us a burrito for free! i called it the "damn, you eat here so much you should have a burrito savings account" discount. every time she walked by hollywood and me as we ate she'd say shh! sometimes it takes so little to make my day.

and then...i found $5.