Reservations are...

dumb.

I am of course referring to reservations at restaurants and not the place where the government stuck Native Americans in order to put them out of sight and therefore feel less guilty about stealing all their land and polluting the environment.

Kathryn and I tried to go to her favorite restaurant for a nice romantic dinner only to find out that they didn't have anything available because people had reserved all their tables. Well, that's just stupid. Wouldn't you rather have 2 people who are already in the restaurant rather than the potential of 2 people coming later? What if those people cancel? Then you'll probably feel pretty stupid that you didn't serve us instead of telling us that you're just super busy right now and we can't eat there.

We ended up going to a different restaurant that had a table available but still had several tables empty with "Reserved" signs sitting on them. Guess what? At least one of those parties canceled their reservation. I guess they should have given that table to someone who actually showed up instead of saving it for people who might come. But because they cling to the stupid idea of letting people reserve seats that they may not take, they may have lost out on customers. How foolish.

Now, I understand taking reservations for big parties. But if you've got a restaurant with very limited seating, and you do enough business that you feel like taking reservations is necessary, then you probably are popular to the point that you'll fill the restaurant without actually needing the reservations. Whatever happened to the good old days of first come, first served? This country is getting soft.

Stupid Facebook Story of the Week

Someone in my news feed posted (grammar and spelling has been corrected to protect my sanity): I don't get the big deal about Angry Birds. I just beat the whole game in 30 minutes.

Oh really? In 30 minutes, or 1800 seconds, you beat all 243 levels? Ignoring the fact that to actually beat the game, you have to get a 3-star score on every level, that would mean that this person spent an average of only 7.4 seconds on each level. Yeah, I call bullshit on this one.

And, in a segment I'm stealing from Slick, my jam of the week is Bonne Maman Strawberry Preserves. Try some on a fresh croissant. You won't be disappointed.

-Jon