A Small Fire

I must say, it is still bothering me that I didn't get to spend Jeff's 30th birthday with him. I know to him it is just another day. My birthday is to me as well. But, I would have rather been there with him to celebrate. Even if our celebration was simply dinner, dessert, and time together.

Last year, that is pretty much what it was. Dinner and dessert with friends, and just time together. Dinner was the interesting part. Meeting with our friends who are always late, Jeff and I essentially made a bet of how late they would actually be. Ten minutes, fifteen minutes, these were our guessing. A few minutes before the fifteen marker, we got a message that they would be another ten minutes. Oh well, we had enough time to make an educated decision on the delicious menu.

Here, we were at one of our favorite Italian restaurants, part of the reason we decided to spend Jeff's birthday there. When our good company arrived, we had a delicious meal. Our meal certainly proved our fandom of this place.

The enjoyment and pleasure ended with the dinner. As we were walking out of the restaurant, we were wholly planning on eating there again, soon. We began to slightly panic as we saw a stack of paper menus hanging over a lit candle. They were just starting to go up in flames. The thought struck that maybe we wouldn't be able to return as the restaurant was going to burn down. 

Rather than just standing and watching, as I was, Jeff took action. He blew out the candle and grabbed the paper, blowing it out quickly. He put out the fire! He saved the restaurant! I felt he deserved some sort of hero status for his quick actions.

I was sure he was going to get it, along with free meals for life when the hostess came over to see what was going on. She would be so pleased with Jeff, right? Wrong. As we explained what had just happened, she basically looked at us as if we had been trying to start the fire, not put it out. Come on, lady. Really? Do we look like the type of people who would do that?

Absolutely not! Maybe it's good we weren't together for Jeff's birthday. Last year was arson, who knows what this year could have brought!