Wednesday, August 01, 2007

BREAKING NEWS: Mexican Restaurant has $3.99 taco special, cockroaches

So Monday I'm driving around to my various meetings and I'm starting to get hungry. I didn't have a lot of time so I was trying to find something I could do quick. The part of Vegas I was driving around in has miles & miles of strip malls, all southwestern/mexican style buildings with tan stucco. People drive pretty fast & crazy here so it was difficult to identify a suitable lunch spot in time to actually stop there. The road had three lanes each way with a median divider, and when I saw a Subway on the other side I went to the next light to turn around but lo and behold I saw a little Mexican taqueria that caught my eye. I though to myself, self, you should eat there. I rolled up to the joint and walked in the door. Now I was was wearing my black suit & was a bit out of place as it was part grocery store, part taqueria. The other clientèle were members of the "green team" on break from their various landscaping projects. For some reason they couldn't tell that I was down with the brizzzown. I decided on the taco special, al pastor, and grabbed a spanish language paper to read while I waited. When my (Styrofoam) plate was ready I picked it up from the counter. I placed it on the newspaper (the paper covered most of the little table) and started to arrange my salsas when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. A little cockroach jumped out from under one of my tacos, or maybe from under the plate, onto the table. I knocked it onto the floor, squished it, and was immediately faced with a dilemma. Do I ask for another plate? I didn't have time for that. Do I leave it & roll? I was hungry so that wasn't an option. I decided to pretend that the roach was only interested in the one taco it was underneath & ate the other two, along with the beans & rice. I was somewhat uneasy eating the "clean" tacos but dealt with enough to get all of it down.

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