July 31, 2010 / Sant Andres

On BFFs…

I had an unusual but fun last night. Sans any speck of creativity, I will narrate it. Here goes.

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As mentioned in my preceding post, I left the office very late then. And true to what I said there about starting to be anti-social, I declined to a couple of invites to spend the night out with some friends.

(Though those groups of friends most probably won’t get the chance to read this, I’d like to apologize for taking rain checks for quite some time now without good reason)

Instead, I had (very late) dinner at Italianni’s in Boni High with GraceD, one of my very good friends, my closest actually, in the office. We’ve been trying to hang out more lately since she’s leaving in a few days for New York and we probably won’t see each other for a long long time.

(I’ll talk about her and her transferring to the Big Apple on a separate post, before she actually leaves. Well, I hope so)

We ordered chicken salad, crab-meat pasta and four-cheese pizza. I definitely enjoyed the salad and pasta. But the third was a totally different story. You see, I have a taste for quatro formaggi pizza. But I was certainly not a fan of the resto’s said pizza. Theirs was very bitter tasting. It took me a bite to know for sure that I’m never going to enjoy it. I thought to myself, what an unlucky order. I was kinda sulking because (1) I wasn’t able to enjoy my four-cheese pizza, and (2) that’s 500 put to waste (hey! 500 pesos is 500 pesos). Good thing, GraceD shared this sentiment which lead us to deciding not to eat the pizza nor take it out altogether.

After finishing the salad and pasta, I asked for the bill glumly. The waiter might have noticed me sulking over the pizza (or the lack of it!) as he gave us the tab. And we confirmed our dissatisfaction as we instantly opposed the second he brought up the idea of taking it out. And boy was I so glad of the next things he said. Basically, he asked me to avail their resto group’s membership/loyalty card for practically nothing (it’s Php 1500 actually, but other than the discount you get for your next purchase to their restos, you also get a gift certificate of the same amount), plus throwing in the pizza for free! I said yes without any reservations. The thought of not paying for the most disappointing pizza (so far) had me hooked. Now you get how much their four-cheese let me down. So, we only paid for the pasta and salad and the card, which as said, was virtually for free. And, weird it may be, that made me real happy then.

So, it became a very good night after all.

And still, we chose to not take out the friggin’ pizza.