What a strange evening.
We took advantage of the 6 course meal. The first four dishes were amazing. They came out quickly and were quite tasty. We had totally overlooked the fact that our waiter never smiled and had no personality. We were having a great time.
The meal started with some fresh baked bread. The bread was great, even better when dipped into the fourth course, the hummus. Naturally when the waiter came over to clear the hummus we told him to leave it. There was plenty of bread and hummus left for dipping.
We were having a very nice time, laughing and enjoying the belly dancing. Then we started to notice that the food stopped coming. It had been 20 minutes since the waiter stopped by. We joked: "maybe we should have let him take the hummus!".
10 more minutes passed as we tried to get the waiter's attention. We finally decided to chug our waters so the water boy would come over. "He could get us our waiter," we thought...
We had now been waiting 40 minutes for the chicken to come. The water boy came over almost immediatly as we finished chugging. We asked if he knew if our chicken was ever coming...He told us he'd go find out.
Shortly thereafter the waiter came over and said "oh, are you done with this?" referring to the hummus. We really would have continued to dip, but feared we would never see the chicken if we did. We let it go and a few moments later we got our bland chicken.
The moral of the story: DON'T KEEP THE HUMMUS!