Something new I discovered

Something I forgot to mention about our Tombstone trip.

I guess because we are a family of six, we are now considered a "group" at restaurants. Who knew having one more child would end up costing us so much more money this early in the game.

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At least that's the way it happened at the restaurant we went to in Tombstone. It seems they counted the baby as a real food eating human body as well.

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And what do restaurants typically do with groups of six or more? They shrewdly add an automatic 20% tip. Now normally, I wouldn't mind but this time, it was a little ridiculous. First of all, our "six" was a seven month old baby. And all he ate were some Cheerios which most of those ended up on the floor. So technically, we were a group of five. And the other reason is that the service was horrifically slow. It took us an hour and a half to get in and out of the place! Now moms with little kids know that you can't go anywhere unless you know you'll be done within 30, 45 minutes, TOPS. Otherwise, chaos in sues. So, imagine what it was like entertaining four kids for an hour and a half. I mean, there comes a point when the novelty of the boys/girls bathroom wears off.

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I think what was the kicker was when we asked when the apple crisp that we ordered twenty minutes before would be out and she said, "Oh! I just put it in the microwave. It should be out in a few minutes."

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Restaurant? Apple crisp? Microwave? 7.99? 20% tip?

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Then only to discover that the "apple crisp" was the same concoction I've made at home using yellow cake mix and peaches/apples/cherries.

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So the service we received to justify the automatic 20% tip was the pleasure of being gawked at ( yet again ) by old people, wasting an hour and a half of our already shortened time there, a really bad apple crisp, a majorly slow waitress, and saved us the need to figure out what 20% of the bill would be.