the steak house and the bottle of A-1

[calvin]

the year was 1978 for those of you to young to remember this was the time of disco and the leisure suits it was mid summer on a Sunday around noon, wife #1 and i had been out and about that morning and decided to stop at Bonanza steak house for lunch , well as our luck would have it church had just let out and all the church folks had gotten there ahead of us
the place was packed !! we did manage to get an empty booth along a wall . our booth was right smack in the middle with 3-4 booths in front and 3-4 booths in back with more tables across a narrow isle on my right
so we sat down and ordered our food , i ordered a sirloin and i don’t recall what wife#1 ordered but we knew it was gonna be a while so we started talking what must have been some interesting gossip or something cause before i knew it, they brought our food , i barely glanced up i just kept on atalkin. i like a little A-1 on my steak so i grabbed the bottle and because it was so crowded i held the bottle about level with my right ear and started shaking it , so there i was a talkin and a shakin, when
wife # 1 got this strange look on her face and screamed STOP !!! …i froze not knowing what was going on , then i saw it… all the way down all the booths in front of me people in their Sunday best dress’s and suits covered with brown dots !!! i looked behind me and the same thing , a rainbow of pastel colored leisure suits covered with brown dots , same thing on my right side. slowly i realized that some prankster had left to top of the A-1 bottle loose and i was the sucker that fell for it !!!
at 1st i felt like craweling under the table and hiding, then i saw the faces of those fellas in all those now polka dot covered leisure suits so my 2nd though was to run , i looked across the room for the exit , but at that moment the exit door looked like it was 3 1/4 miles from where i was sitting , the poor lady in front of me was wearing a white summer dress and hat with a look on her face like please make it stop raining steak sauce !! the manager had seen what happened and came rushing to my rescue he was an old family friend and knew i would never in this world do anything like this , he told everyone to calm down that he knew me and it wasn’t my fault and that Bonanza would pay for all the dry cleaning and soon had everyone calmed down , we finished eating and left knowing that i was lucky to get outa there alive

[glen]

calvin Wow, that beats the loose salt cap or the exploding loose mustard cap LOL

[calvin]

the stories i tell are all 100% true
i’ll be 66 years old this month and like anyone that has lived this long has bound to have had a lot of strange and sometimes funny things happen to them haha

[Departing Contestant]

did the same thing (sorta) smacked a bottle of ketchup and the lid came off and ketchup was all over the guy across from me

[calvin]

at least you didn’t hit 25 or so people like i did… lol

[Ted Frodyma]

calvin Is that why you lost wife #1?

[calvin]

Ted Frodyma haha no , thats a whole nother story !!! i’m on wife # 4 now

[PapaSop]

calvin
LOL! Bonanza, long time ago. Used to go there often back in the day.

[calvin]

yea it was a pretty good place to eat at ( as long as i wasn’t there lol )

[Craig Rice]

calvin A kodak moment LOL

[calvin]

i thought for a while it was going to be my LAST moment

[cdavis]

calvin reminds me of the commercial. Want to get away.

[calvin]

cdavis in a situation like that you have no idea how far away the exit door looks haha

[cdavis]

calvin I’ll bet.