just paid $7.20 for pasta salad, crab soup, and a soda - ask me anything

[Bertha Venation]

I'll start:

1. Are you an idiot who can't control her spending?

Yes.

2. Do you work at a place with a hideously-overpriced in-house cafe, and where, no matter where you go, you will spend $10 a day for lunch if you don't brown-bag it?

Yes.

3. Why then don't you take your lunch to work?

See question one.

[gator_in_Ontario]

1. Are you in Canada?

hee hee

[Bertha Venation]

5. I wish.

:bounce:

[sasquatch]

2. Have you tried crystal meth?

I swear you'll never have to worry about eating for a long time:silly:

[Bertha Venation]

6. no, but I've tried crystal lite

:puke:

[GOPisEvil]

3. I spent $6.95 + tax and tip for a pile of gyro meat, rice, hummus, salad

and pita. :9

Lunch is my one treat for the day. Breakfast and lunch are usually home-cooked or at least home-prepared (even if it's opening a package.)

[hlthe2b]

8. mmmmm, yum, GOPisEVIL. I LOVE middle-eastern fair...

I like to spend on lunch, too. Dinner for me can easily be a salad or even hot cereal on cold winter nights.... Just not so important anymore (and, I find I'm losing weight as a result).

[Bertha Venation]

10. That's the kind of lunch I miss.

Back home I could drive to anywhere in a 10-mile radius and get any kind of good, cheap lunch, and get back with time to spare. One of the things I miss about So. Cali.

Here I have to pay $180 a month to park my car two blocks from the office. I refuse to drive in this town if I can avoid it, so if I want a decent lunch, I have to walk to Georgetown -- but it'll cost $20. I can spend $10 in the cafe downstairs or the cafeteria across the street, or go cheap & eat hot dogs. I don't mind eating hot dogs but they are soooo bad for me; I have no business eating those.

So I should bring my lunch. I am too damned lazy to pack it.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Too bad I'm in a food coma right now, though.

Stuffed!

[afraid_of_the_dark]

20. Oooh... gyros and hummus...

Two things I love, and haven't had in a really long time. You're making me hungry!

[Burma Jones]

4. Are you in Bawlmer or DeeCee, Hon?

[Bertha Venation]

11. DC, Hon.

;)

[Burma Jones]

16. Then that's 'bout right (n/t)

[Raven]

7. It must have had gold in it!

My mother used to say that about expensive eats. :hi:

[Bertha Venation]

15. If she was talking about blue crabs, your mom was right.

Mmm.... Chesapeake Bay blue crabs . . . yummy.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

9. Three questions: 1) What part of Washington, DC do you work in;

2) why is your lunch so cheap; and

3) Do you have one of those little FreedomPay key-tag thingies that ovrdraws when you least expect it? and

4) Aren't you lucky if you answered "No" to Question 3.

On edit: typoes. Here, typisttypisttypist....

[Bertha Venation]

13. three answers

1. Foggy Bottom/Georgetown

2. Cheap? It's too damned much for my budget.

3. Nope.

4. I guess so . . . ? :)

[belle]

12. That seems fairly cheep to me--but then i spend way too much on food

and am in NYC. well, also, i'm thinking "hey, crab soup--that sounds gourmet! Seafood! not cheap!" maybe if you'd said "minestrone" i would've had more sticker shock. or maybe i just really want some crab soup...

[Bertha Venation]

17. I hereby retract my lunch bitch, because I just tasted the crab soup and

I think I'm coming.

Oh. My. God.

This soup was made by Dom, the lovelorn chef of my country song ("Why Do I Have To Be Married and Why Do You Have To Be Gay?").

[GOPisEvil]

18. I'll have what she's having.

</When Harry Met Sally>

[Bertha Venation]

19. heh heh...

I figured someone would make some such reference.

Did you know the woman who spoke that line is Billy Crystal's mom? jes' a li'l trivia there fer ya....