Wednesday Wisdom

As you know, I am at the beach with my dear friend of 53 years, Silvija.

We are staying at a lovely timeshare at the sea side.

It is just past midnight now so officially it her 64th birthday today.

I hope that I can add to her happiness.... two of her children, a granddaughter and her sister will join us for lunch.... we will have a good time..... I need to get to sleep so I won't be tired on her special day when we wake up in the morning... but I wanted to share some Wednesday Wisdom with you first.

This is it....

Choose the right when a choice is placed before you.

I have heard this advice from my mom and at church since I was a little girl.

I have always tried to follow that advice.... and I am surely glad we did today.

We wanted to go out for a nice meal at a restaurant overlooking the water at the beach.

We went to this place called Fisherman's at the pier.

The restaurant spans both sides of the pier.

Can you tell much difference from the left and right sides?
Neither could we....but we picked the right side.

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We looked at the menu in the window of the left side and found that most of the meals started at about $15.00. That seemed about right since is a nice place over the water. We decided to go in. We wanted to eat outside where we could see and hear the waves and feel and smell the ocean breeze. We saw a table in a perfect spot on the right side and hurried in and asked the waitress if we could sit there.


After we sat down we got a menu.....
They said it was happy hour....
Guess what the price for a big....lovely....delicious dinner was...
Did you guess???? No you are not right...
It was $3.00!!!
Yes... that is correct....$3.00.
We could not believe it. We asked why we did not see that on the menu we had looked at on the left side of the restaurant. The waitress explained that the right side had a bar and served food and drinks at this low price during happy hour.... but the left side of the restaurant did not.
We do not drink alcohol but we ordered our sodas and had a wonderful $3.00 meal.
I was taking Sil out for an early birthday dinner.
The total bill came to $12.00....$15.00 with the tip...for both of us.
Am I a generous friend and a big spender or what!!!
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But my mom's and my church's teaching proved once again to be valuable advice.

Choose the right when a choice is placed before you!
Have a great day.
Love, Lura