anchovies

three steps that will perk you up when you're down
1. walk into an ethnic restaurant
2. order something you've never had before, which shouldn't be too hard considering the number of various cultures and hence their cuisines here in chicago
3. look closely at the server when s/he brings your check and sees what you've done to the food, how you try to fish our a teeny tiny octopus from a bowl of soup, fyi: bowl of soup full of reeking tofu which you don't know how to eat - do you mix it with rice and use chopsticks or do you use a spoon or do you drink it out of the bowl?
anyways, the point is, the way the lady looked at me was hilarious, and she had to be polite and not burst out laughing into my face, which I have to admit did yesterday seeing a guy putting sour cream over gołąbki and mielone