Uh, this was my story. We absolutely did not treat this man "horrendously." The blue cheese he demanded a full soup bowl of was fairly expensive, high quality stuff. People should pay for what they are receiving. It wasn't dressing, either, but actual blue cheese. He was most happy when his steak was deep friend. When…

What did you charge her for it??? It's giving me acid reflux just thinking about it! Ugh!

I would ask them if I could leave it behind the counter or in the manager's office. You're not being unreasonable.

We served him his steak the way he ordered it. That doesn't mean we don't get to mock him mercilessly once he's left. There is no code of silence among restaurant workers.

HA! No, it was always a bottle of red wine poured over ice.

Eh, brisket is brisket. It doesn't matter if it's Waygu or not, it's gonna be tough and chewy if you don't cook the shit out of it. It's pretty common in the competitive bbq circuit to use Waygu for brisket entries.

You realize it was blue cheese the cheese and not blue cheese the dressing, right? (This was my contribution.) Also, this was a fairly upscale steakhouse chain. Think special night out for your average middle class working person, regular haunt for richy rich society matrons. The blue cheese we used was good quality,…

I submitted the cheese story. He was an ok tipper. 15% if you didn't piss him off, 12% if you did. Re: the dining companion: I don't know if they were dates, but doubt that they were. They were always women, but older, and they had the air of eating with one of those people in your life who you don't particularly care…

Thanks. He went to undergrad at the same school as me, went to the same church as my mom for a while, and friends of friends know him and his family. I have this six degrees of separation thing going on and I can't help but wonder how it happened. I'm so glad they brought him back and gave him a good chance at…

How did the doctor in quarantine in Atlanta get Ebola? Everyone says he was wearing protective covering all the time but he got it anyway. Does anyone know what happened? Did his suit rip or something?

Oh my god I dated a guy for a while who was always begging to watch me pee! And he didn't want to just see me pee while standing there or whatever. He wanted to, like, get down in front of me and, like, watch the pee come out. Freak.

Except for the puppets, I don't understand how any of those other things are remotely sexual. People are SO strange!

I also tried the "be patient and tolerant" thing and it just didn't work for me, either. Fantasizing about slapping someone during dinner really made me LOL. There are still people like this in my life. There are some people I just want to slap and be like GROW UP, you know?

My sister and her ex (who the whole family LOVED) were like that. He wanted to live in a major city, she was happy in a small college town. He's a meat eater, she's a vegan. She's into intense Yoga and running, he rarely works out. He loves to drink beer, she's almost never does. She wanted kids, he was adamant to…

Me either! I'm a trained chef and I love to cook and try new restaurants and I just couldn't handle being with someone who didn't feel the same way. I know a couple of "foodies" (I hate that word and we really need to come up with something else) who married non-foodies and they seem happy, but I wouldn't have been.

Nice. I much prefer cover ups to removal. It's going to look great when it's colored.

If they are very big, he may want to talk to a good artist about getting them covered rather than removed. My sister had a couple of big tattoos on her arms and decided she wanted them removed. It's not as easy as it sounds. Lots of sessions, lots of pain, very expensive. After dozens of sessions, the tats are still…

This is how I would like to dress in my imagination, but could never ever pull off. I've tried. All those blousy button down shirts don't work very well with boobs or larger upper arms. Plus, the loose baggy pants paired with the loose baggy shirt make me look like a round ball. You have to be tall and willowy to pull…

I love the idea of a cooking column. I am a trained chef (not in the industry anymore for reasons that are covered pretty extensively in Kitchenette) and I am always looking for an outlet to post recipes, give advice, etc. I don't do molecular gastronomy or any of that crazy intimidating shit - just good, solid, home…

But... those come in "flavors." Like "fruit." I don't know, Jan... that's livin' on the edge...