Tonight was a first.

We were busy. Especially for a Wednesday in November. Reservations stacked on reservations.

Lots of large parties. People dining out with their families, who did not want to cook tonight.

We sat an 8 top at 5:30. Four adults. Four teenagers. They were very nice. I remember making the reservation for the mother a week or so ago.

They arrived on time. Ordered on time.

Reservation was moving along.

Around 7:15 the server comes up to say that they are on dessert.

Perfect.

Dessert comes and goes.

And this is where it gets special.

They order another bottle of wine.

Pull out a deck of cards.

And settle in for the evening.

They stay for another hour playing cards and drinking wine. Luckily I was able to move things around, so it wasn’t a problem.

But in all this time I’ve never had this happen.

Who goes out to eat, and then plays cards for an hour after dinner?

Except in Las Vegas.

The server later shared that one of the sons pulled out dominoes, but the dad said, oh no. That takes too long!

Thank god it wasn’t monopoly!