You Want 5 Spicy?
Telling someone how spicy you want your food varies. Sometimes you want wings or maybe salsa. These things are easy to say hot or mild and knowing exactly what you will get, but going to a Thai restaurant and not knowing how spicy they can make it may be hazardous to your health.
Waiting for my girlfriend getting takeout from Outback Steak House I noticed a place called Thai Thai Takeout right behind it. I instantly was craving something spicy. I walked in to this takeout restaurant looking around and seeing nothing, but a cash register and a kitchen behind it. No cheap statues or posters hanging on the wall that are supposed to give you the hint you're in another world.
Upon ordering the pepper chicken I was asked that question that I love to hear. "How spicy do you want it?" I wanted as spicy as it could be so I calmly said, "On a scale 1 to 5, 5 being the spiciest, I want 5 spicy." She repeated what I said with excitement, "You want five spicy?"
After getting home to my TV set, I popped open the Togo container and started flushing this soupy food into my mouth. After about 3 bites I felt a concentrated tenderness in my throat. Realizing right then I had forgotten how spicy I ordered it.
After two glasses of milk and some bread the food got tossed in the trash and my ego shuttered below normal. When I thought I had a mouth that could take the heat, 5 spicy came along. Spicy or not the food was nothing more than the standard satisfactory.