Just a Small Salad; I'm on a Diet

I tried out my new glasses last night. Vision through the left eye was almost perfect, sharp and clear no matter how near or far. The right eye saw everything in the distance with a bit of blur around the edges. Put those two together, and my eyes hurt, distances seemed distorted, and I constantly shoved the glasses back up the ridge of my nose hoping to make things clearer.

So while at dinner, I ordered a small chicken caesar salad from Hof's Hut and thought perhaps my glasses were playing tricks on me when the waitress set the salad bowl on the table. Two large tomato wedges, a handful of lettuce and a small grilled chicken breast. The entire salad was smaller than Caesar's dinner salad, only without the shredded carrots, sliced cucumber and most of the lettuce. We both stared at my excuse for a salad with surprise. I removed my glasses, wiped the lenses, but my salad was still just enough to feed a rabbit. A very small rabbit.

I ate it anyway, if only to silence my growling stomach.

But the real shocker was that my tiny meal cost more than Caesar's, and he had salad, a crock of soup and something from the bakery. To make up for it, I ordered a slice of red velvet cake. Can't leave a restaurant on an empty stomach.