"BAAAAAAAPS!"

       Restaurants are a breeding ground for uncomfortable situations. Why, they are practically petri dishes of awkwardness. What else do they expect when they shove 40 or 50 strangers in an open room at uncomfortably small booths and tables, give them a list of potential things they could all eat in front of each other while watching others do the same and expect them to answer questions about the quality of the meals while their mouths are full?

       Yesterday I was at Triple O's with my family. Triple O's is like a mini White Spot with only hamburgers. It is where we go before all day trips, where we go when we don't want to cook, and where we end up when it doesn't work out to go on vacation to California in the summer (if IKEA also falls through). 

       Sometimes you say something embarrassing just as everyone at every table falls silent. Sometimes you have to order awkward menu items. Or sometimes, for no reason at all, you turn to your mom and say BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPS!!! in your loudest outside voice. 

       Oh well. I had a chocolate milkshake so I was OK.

*A bap is a kind of Scottish bun that is very fun to say in an obnoxious childish voice*

*Here is an explanatory flow chart of vacation option hierarchies:

CALIFORNIA!!! (doesn't work out) ---> IKEA... (doesn't work out either) ---> Triple O's.