...man, it's been a minute since I heard that. I should probably look that up....
Well, that just happened.
Where was I? That's right.
So... Our office throws quarterly "Lunch & Learn" in which we provide the campus with an interesting guest speaker and a free lunch (as long as their within the first 30 people to sign up). Sweet deal! Who doesn't love a free lunch. And now I am in charge of-- well, basically everything except for choosing the presenter. I coordinate dates, reserve the space, coordinate the web stuffs, answer questions and-- order the food. I hate this. I hate this so much.
You see, I am a *sigh* people pleaser. I just want everyone to be happy. If I could send everyone the menu and have them choose specifically I would. I would be SO much happier doing that. But, that's not practical for how our system is set up. And that's where my personality is at war within itself. I want to make people very happy-- but I also want to be practical. Those two don't go hand in hand very well. And it ends up with me being very conflicted and very unhappy. (did you see that? I underlined it. EMPHASIS!).
Anywho. So I ordered a selection of deli sandwiches and also 5 chicken caesar salads. Looking over our past records this is the first time in three years that this office has offered anything other than sandwiches. I went with the chicken caesar for two reasons. I'm sure you don't really care my thought process but I'm going to tell you anyways because this is my blog post. So there. Reason Number 1. The chicken on these salads come in large chunks. There for if you don't want to eat chicken you can easily move the pieces to the side and still have a decent sized salad and will be full at the end of lunch. Reason 2. The croûtons are also easy to remove so if you're looking for a gluten free option- well, there you have it. Is it perfect? No. But I figured that it would be the most adaptable for crazy diets. I feel as though I can say that because I'm one of those "choose to participate gluten free" wackos.
Well, can you guess what happened yet? All the people trickle in to be WOW'd by our presenter (one of the cool kids who works at TaxSlayer- do you know them? Check them out!!) and then the dreaded question... "is there any vegetarian?" I did my best to explain that we did have a chicken caesar salad option but apparently that was not good enough. This was continued between her and her friend about how could it POSSIBLY be that there is not vegetarian option? Fucking amazed. Mind blown. Really? Reeeeaalllly? You choose to have a specific diet and are surprised when you don't have any option to eat. She went to a seat and sat glaring while everyone else ate. My husband then explained that she may have been so morally opposed to killing animals for consumption that she could not bring herself to eat anything that had been touched by dead flesh. AAAAaaaaahhhhh. Morals. Welp. Guess you're just going to be hungry then!!
I'm really not mad at her. I'm really upset with the fact that I couldn't help her. I know that I can't make everyone happy. But I want to. I don't want people to not each lunch because I didn't consider that maybe people don't want to eat food touched by meat. Outwardly I'm pissed and annoyed but really I'm just disappointed.
On a slightly different note- today I was considering being a language arts teacher or a fitness instructor.
Have a good night!!
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