The Buffet

My friend and I would occasionally leave work at lunch and head across the street to the Chinese food place for their lunchtime buffet.  It was good and cheap.

One particular day (the last one we went to actually), there weren't too many around, and the food was very good - everything was very hot and fresh.   We'd gotten our egg rolls and won tons to start, then were back to fill up our plates.  As we scoffed, more people came in for the buffet.

We polished our plates off, and she looks at me and whispers, "Do you think anyone would notice if I went up again?"

I assured her not, it's a buffet, you're supposed to eat as much as you can.  Besides, most of the people in the restaurant had come in after we'd already eaten one plate of food, so how would they know how many times she'd gone up.

So off she went and loaded her plate up again.  Just as she was finishing loading up, I roared across the restaurant:  "Hey, is that your THIRD plate???"

She turned purple and practically ran across the restaurant and plunked herself on the chair opposite me.  "You bitch," she hissed.

"Sorry, I couldn't resist."

Remember this was the LAST time we went to the buffet.

I do feel bad though, she likely would've gone back for a 4th plate...