(At a restaurant)

I don’t know what it is with ordering food.  I feel like people’s confidence goes down when they are requesting a meal off of a menu at a restaurant. 

Scene: You sit down with your company and you all look over your menu to decide what you’re going to get.   Then you all snack on bread for a bit and finish up with any small talk that’s been started, before turning the conversation to a more serious matter – what everyone else is getting (to make sure that nobody else has chosen your meal and that yours is a better choice than everyone else’s… right?)  When you are all talking with each other about what you’ve chosen to eat, you have no problem recalling what it is you’re going to get.  At least from my own experiences, that’s what always seems to be the case.

Then the waitress comes over.  She pulls out her tablet, clicks her pen, and asks you what you want.  And it must be that your mind blanks out because you simply cannot remember what wanted to eat, and have to open your menu to recall what it was!  Oh that’s right, Chicken Parmesan.  You really didn’t just lose confidence about what you wanted to eat did you?  Being asked what you want for dinner isn’t some kind of test question; there is no need to have a panic attack.

I’ve noticed this trend a lot.  I myself do it and those that I eat with do it.  Rarely can a person order nowadays, without breaking down and having to crack the menu back open for a friendly reminder to what I would surprisingly consider to be a difficult question: What would you like to eat?

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