Necessary Words

     Hello to all my friends, fans, and readers here at AD.  I was sitting here thinking about something my wife and I started doing about 10 years ago.  We had moved to Arkansas five years earlier, and our favorite thing to eat was mexican food.  We found this little mexican restaurant, and being from California we were accustomed to good mexican food.  So we tried this restaurant, and we both agreed that it was the best food we had ever eaten.  I asked the waiter if the manager was in.  The waiter was limited on his english, but he finally understood.  He had a look on his face as though there was something wrong, and said he would go get him.  When the manager came to the table he said, hello, my name is Alex, is there something wrong sir?  I said, no, there is nothing wrong, I just wanted to let you know this is the best mexican food we have ever eaten, and the waiter is doing an excellent job.  Alex replied, I am not use to this, most people who want to speak to the manager only have complaints.  Thank you very much.  You know, this made me feel good.  Most of the time now, we get our food to go, but, I will call the restaurtant if the food was extremely good to let them know how good it was.  I will call them too, if something is not right or the food was not good, but that doesn't happen very often.
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                                                               Daniel L Keith