Two times this past weekend I found myself getting mad at someone I didn't know. This is only a big deal because of its rarity. Last Friday while picking up a friend from CA at the Omaha airport, I was told that he'd be right outside the door in a few seconds. I slowly pull up to the curb, put it in park and immediately there is an obese security officer outside my door. I roll down the window and he says I need to drive around until my passenger is outside (up to now, all understandable). I tell him he's only a few seconds away as I just spoke with him, and the "cop" says, "Sure, that's what they all say." I then protest with "What? I just got off the phone with him." and he replies, "I'd like to believe you, really, but..." and then shoos me forward. I take off and immediately pull back over to the curb 2 cars down as Mike has come out of the airport. The whole thing of parking and reparking took less than 30 secs, but I was so mad at the insinuation of being called a liar by an authority figure.

The second time was less offensive, though the more I thought about it, the more negative it seemed. Usually after our weekly ultimate frisbee event we relax with burgers at a local dive (with buy 1, get 1 free deal). This week our new waitress wasn't very good especially in comparison with the past 7-8 weeks of going there. We had 3 bills for the 7 of us. For one bill she gave them $6 more back for change than she should have, but the two people who got this free money didn't tip her, nor did 2 others, any thing at all. This was done primarily at the urging of one guy who seemed to be upset with food, service and was tight for $ (jobless). I protested to the group on deaf ears and, in the end, came back and put some more $ on the table. I was hoping we would still get service for future evenings there as I recall from my days in the restaurant biz of 1) refusing future service to those who didn't tip (or someone doing bad things to the food to those who didn't tip), 2) wait staff getting taxed on each table regardless of how much they were actually tipped. Such that when I have bad service, I mention it to the manager and/or give 5-10% tip as a minimum. Guess it's not a set thing for all, but no tip plus the "stealing" of money that wasn't theirs got me going.

All in all, great and full weekend with Stacie & Mike from CA! Game night on Thurs, swing dancing on Fri, football party on Sat with neighbors and a few other friends (yeah, NE got smoked again) with lots of DDR & ping-pong, saw Holy Family Shrine on Sun, the zoo on Mon (OK, I dropped them off there after visiting with friend who is admin there and gave us a short mini-tour) and lots of good food and drinks throughout.