So I took my wife over to IHOP today, because she finally is able to chew again and she had an intense craving for pancakes. After spending 400+ on books for school, I figured "why not?" and took us there. When there, I decided to order their ham and cheese omelet, but I asked if I could also get olives in it, cause I like olives in my omelets and I didn't see them on the list. The server told me it was fine and that it would just cost extra.

When the server brought back out the omelet and I dug into it, I found out that there weren't any olives in it. That's fine, so long as I wasn't going to be charged for them. No big deal. But here's where it got weird. The order came with a side of pancakes and when I finally started into those I noticed lumps in the pancakes. I thought they might be blueberries, even though that didn't make sense, until I bit into one. It was the olives!

The server came back asking how things were and I pointed out the problem. She was as shocked as I was and very apologetic, but then she went back to get me new pancakes. We both could hear her as she was questioning the cooks.

"Did you put olives in the pancakes?"

"Yeah."

"Why? Who puts olives in pancakes?"

I started laughing and couldn't hear the cook's responses, but her own questions were enough to keep me laughing as she tried to find out why they'd done that. Come to find out her manager overheard her and asked her if she was serious. She said yes, and that started a new round of incredulous questions. By now, we're having trouble not laughing. They were very cordial about it and even gave me my meal for free without my asking for it, which was nice, but it was one of those situations you just had to laugh about because it was so ridiculous.



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