Sometimes two dollars is just two dollars Your Daily Lex Lauren and Sierra are in tech week for the production of the music man that they are both in Which meant that last night I had a daddy Liam day date night something so I Picked him up from his Speech therapy lesson and was like, do you want to go out to dinner with me?

He’s like, yes where I was like Well, there’s the Italian slash pizza place.

That’s right here.

He’s like, I don’t want to do that.

So we eventually landed on friendlies We haven’t gone to friendlies in years.

I loved friendlies growing up.

I Partially love friendlies now, but it always just feels dirtier there that I wanted to Grosser and we decided to go and we get there and Liam’s, you know, my kids are all now of an age where even if their kids menu eligible They don’t want to offer.

They don’t want to order off the kids menu.

Some of that is super Reasonable it’s because you know, they want to make sure they get a portion that’s filling for them And some of it is also just like it’s more grown-up to order from the grown-up menu fine, whatever But he’s not finding something.

He’s super excited about there’s they have a fancy grilled cheese super melt That’s like too many cheeses, but they say right underneath it.

You can also get a regular grilled cheese That’s what he should have gotten also mozzarella sticks and mac and cheese bites and other crap that you can eat and pretend it’s a meal But he’s like what about this and he points to the fish image egg sandwich now I loved the fish image egg sandwich growing up and It’s you know a white fish and cheese sandwich It comes with tartar sauce, but you very wisely say no tartar sauce Since of course tartar sauce is disgusting and it comes with fries great meal So he decides he’s gonna order that it arrives and We also got mac and cheese bites as an appetizer to share But so when he’s diving into the fish image egg sandwich, he’s like, oh, it’s a white fish like I think I think this sandwich was cod.

I think in the past like Halibut or haddock or some some other white fish Liam knows he doesn’t like no, I guess but it’s it’s not the one you don’t like it’s different which it was true I wasn’t like playing games.

This was not the way if you just like say oh, I Thought it might be different and I’m like different how like thought it’d be salmon.

He’s like, I don’t know I just thought it might be not white fish.

I was like, oh, well, you could have asked me I don’t have happily told you it’s a white fish, but it’s not the one that you say, you know It makes you want to throw up.

So good.

So he tries it and he hates it He’s like it tastes like pickles and tomatoes now There are no pickles or tomatoes in that sandwich and I like this fish sandwich But I know what he means there are certain foods that I don’t like that.

Give me flavor blasts of other flavors that I don’t like and Sometimes it is pickles or tomatoes and I knew even what he meant from this fish what made it taste that way so he agreed he was getting half the sandwich and I would remove the fish from the second half of the sandwich and he would Eat like what was effectively a crappy grilled cheese but he hated that fish sandwich and I felt bad because like I Should have not recommended it or encourage you to get it Even though I liked it as a kid like you don’t like white fish and we’ll just accept that But he you know did his best and then when it was time for dessert.

He’s like Let’s let’s get ice cream which makes sense.

We’re at friendlies which is known for its ice cream and the menu now Unlike what I was growing up is required by law to show calorie counts And one of the desserts that I see at the Reese’s peanut butter cup sundae is a thousand calories or the bigger even better Reese’s pieces sundae is 1,400 calories or something like that And I’m like boy, I don’t think you’re gonna get any room inside here because these these are ridiculous calorie counts and it’s like well What’s the most calories you think I could have for dessert?

Honestly all of this is ridiculous, but I guess why don’t we cap it at 750 and he’s like boom What about this cookies and cream sundae that I really want that is 750 calories and I’m gonna get without the hot fudge sauce Which will mean even less Now here’s the thing Liam is Pretty tall, but roughly the width of a number two pencil and I’m like, yeah fine get the sundae But you don’t have to eat at all I got a scoop of ice cream in a cone just the cone alone felt decadent to me friendlies decadent, but take it and I got I got Hunk a chunk of peanut butter fudge, which was amazing by the way, incredible flavor.

So he gets it eats the whole thing I don’t mind too and Now I want the bill and the waiter has been extremely attentive all meal He’s coming to us and he’s like do you want refills when our drinks are still half full?

Do you guys will look at a dessert menu while we’re still eating?

So now he won’t come back and I’ve always been very polite But he won’t come and I’m flirting with all the waitstaff to try to get somebody to come over and finally something Oh, did you want your waiter?

And I’m like, yeah, I’m not twisting my body around at this bizarre painful angle for fun I’m trying to get somebody’s attention.

So they send the waiter over there’s a sign on the door of the restaurant that they take the route 9 shopper card one of those discount cards that schools and other things sells a fundraiser and Liam knows I love when stores take that card and I also had an ongoing Delightful gag while we were in Paris.

We’re at every store.

I said, hey do you think the store takes this card here?

Which surprisingly they did not take in Paris The discount at friendlies is 10% off seven days a week 10% off The guy brings me my bill and I’m annoyed because I want to be home already and he has taken 5% off It’s a $2 difference If it hadn’t taken forever, I probably said hey, I thought there’s a 10% discount and ask the question Maybe they’ve changed their policy and have an opinion of their website Maybe he made a mistake But I was so annoyed and wanted to leave because we’ve really been waiting a long time to get this bill that I just paid Because $2 wasn’t worth it to me to stay there any longer than I had to the end.

Happy Tuesday everybody Lex