"Oh No You Dih-int!!!" Part II

OK, so after my experience with the rude delivery guy, I gave Mr. Chen’s another chance (and another, and another….). Well, last night was one of those nights: we didn’t feel like cooking, LOST was coming on soon, and we were just craving vegetable steamed dumplings and the best ever Hot & Sour soup. The Chef had to run down to the store to get some ingredients for an amazing tart recipe he’s submitting in a contest (more on that soon), and the food arrived from Mr. Chen’s while he was gone. I handed the young delivery guy the 2 twenties that C had left for me, asking for $10 back (which was leaving him almost $4 in tip). He gave me a wide-eyed look. I was thinking, “You’ve got to be kidding me! That’s a good tip!” but then I saw him silently fingering the corner of one of the twenties. Turns out it had a torn off corner; I hadn’t even noticed, as it was really just about 2 centimeters missing from the bill. Seriously, his expression was implying that I was trying to pull a fast one over on him. “You have another?” he finally asked. “No,” I said calmly, “That’s the only cash I have, but it is fine…you can still use it.” Again, he looked at me like I am a total loon, so I said, “Really, it is still usable, it’s just the tip of the corner that’s missing. You can use it even if a lot more than that were missing.” He just stood there, so I started getting annoyed, “You can’t be serious?!” I asked. “I’ll call my boyfriend and see when he’ll be home, but I don’t think he has another twenty, anyway.” I ran around looking for my cell and dialed C’s number, but he didn’t answer. I went back to the door and said, “I can’t get in touch with him, and I have no other money, so….” I started to hand the bag o' food back to him. Finally he said, “It’s OK, but I will have to come back if I can’t take it.” I was like, “Yeah, I guess I won’t be seeing you then, since there won’t be a problem.”

OK, am I just looking for shit to piss me off, or is that just a little odd?? I recognize that the guy is from China, but he’s been delivering for Mr. Chen’s for a while and he has to have come across torn and/or ripped money in his past--probably in China, too. I’m considering only ordering from them when I have money in my account to pay by Visa, or maybe I will give up on them altogether for the place up the street that has much better dumplings (but not the vegetarian hot & sour soup that Chen's has).

OK, that's all I got. Pray for something interesting to happen in the entertainment world so I have something to blog about tomorrow.

xoxo,
MPL