My cousin, Lynn, and her family have been in Florida for Spring Break. DSs 3 and 4 and I went over to Orlando to join them for a little Disney fun. I have a couple of blogs about this, but HAD to start with this story:
On Friday night we went over to Downtown Disney. Lynn's oldest daughter wanted to eat at the Rainforest Cafe. Now I have eaten there several times (and tried to eat there MORE than I have actually gone in). You see, if you've never been there, the lines are horrific. They are often two or more hours wait....and people do it. So, Lynn's dh went to put our names in when we arrived at 7:00pm. In my head, I am thinking: "There's NO way we are going to get a seat before 9:30 or 10:00." And I told Lynn that we would eat somewhere else if that would reduce the wait-time.
SOOO....
Lynn's dh comes back and confirms what I thought...he told us that we could sit down around 9:35. It seemed like these words were no more out of his mouth when a man wearing a Rainforest Cafe uniform appeared in the darkness. He said, "How long did they tell you?" So we told him, 9:35. He said, "Oh, that's awful. How many of you in your party?" We said "eight". I think at one point we asked him if he could make the magic happen. He paused and said, "Wait right here, I am going to go see if I can get you a table. My name's Fabio." Quite frankly, I was wondering where the heck he came from and why us.
Well, Fabio came back and said, "I've got your table ready...go wait over by the TV inside. The only deal is, if you are asked how long you waited, you need to say a couple of hours." We dutifully rounded everyone up and went over by the TV.
I pictured the Rainforest Cafe workers staring at us through the TV where we were standing and saying, "Ha, ha we have some live ones here! They actually believe we are going to give them a table two hours BEFORE we told them and with all these other customers standing around."
That didn't happen. Fabio returned and escorted us to our table for eight. He took our two hour wait ticket and told us to enjoy our meal. I never saw him again.
I don't get it. We were wondering if he is paid to find people with young children and "squeeze" them in....
Whatever it was, it was a blessing. We were fed and out the door BEFORE 9:35!
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I wondered too if he was looking for parties where the kids out-numbered the adults! It seemed the other parties sitting near us were in that situation, and I did see him seat one other family that had four kids and two adutls. It was a blessing and I was having the same thought....a candid camera moment!
oops! sorry about the typos...where's Dan?
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