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| - You ever go on a mercy date because you just felt so bad for the girl?
I admit to feeling guilty about parking in front of Desert Rays in the morning, because they're right next to my gym. I've taken up my fair share of their premium parking, so one day, while sitting in my car, staring at their lackluster signage, I looked them up on Yelp, and was surprised by their high rating... so I figured I'd give them a go... another day.
Well that day came, and I walked in... to a nearly deserted dining area. There was an old lady in there, but I couldn't see her as the booth backing eclipsed her height.
A super peppy employee, named Julia, emerged from a hole in the wall, and gave me an excited welcome... a welcome you might receive when visiting Iwo Jima, say if you stumbled across someone who's been in hiding since March of '45 and hasn't had much social interaction since then, outside of the occasional one-sided dialog with a flame-thrown corpse.
Choosing my seating, I ordered the Desert Rays Combo with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and buttermilk pancakes.... a good value at $8... but I gotta say, the more Julia lauded my visit, the more uncomfortable I became. Now them there pancakes were kinda weird in taste and consistency... everything else was good, but what I really wanted was to taste the freedom of society, outside of this demure dining area. I paid my bill and Julia rewarded me with an over-sized $5 coupon, which I conveniently tucked into my Costanza wallet and summarily forgot.
I returned 2 days later, because I read good things about their crepes, and this time, I got gruff and stumble, muscular jack, in his compression Under Armour shirt. You better believe I straightened my act up, as I ordered the crepes with fresh strawberries.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a player in the crepe game, nor am I even an armchair quarterback... but serving crepes topped with cold fruit and a heaping mound of fresh made whipped cream sounds MUCH more appealing than what I got... a ball of cold butter and maple syrup... which curiously enough, is also what I got 2 days prior with my weird hotcakes.
The worst part... ABSOLUTE WORST PART... is that I forgot to use my colossal sized coupon... which means I wont be dropping this review until after I've returned one more time to cash in on my discount
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