I had dinner last night - fully dressed - with Bunny, Brian and Rose at Claim Jumper in Valencia. The night started with Rose seeing me come into the restaurant and suggesting to Bunny that they ignore me. It didn't last very long as I sat down next to her and said, "Hey." Not a few minutes after I sat down that we were paged to our table. As usual, not knowing how to judge traffic out here still, Brian had yet to arrive. So being unoriginal - this being another one of Rose's suggestions - we told the waitress that our late arriving companion was celebrating his birthday that night and told her that if she did a real good job of helping us celebrate his birthday she would get a good tip.
So Brian arrives, not too late at all, and was warmly greeted to the table by our waitress who proceeded to overtly and playfully flirt with him. This goes on for the whole night and at first Brian had no idea what was going on so he's just unwittingly playing along probably thinking that the people in Valencia are really nice. Then the waitress let slip that it was his birthday. In return, Brian almost - and actually may have, which means she was nice about it - let slip that it wasn't his birthday but saved it by saying that he didn't like to be embarrassed on his birthday and therefore didn't want anyone to know or to celebrate it, which only made our waitress promise that he would be embarrassed.
After we finished our meal, the staff came out and sang and clapped a "special" birthday song for Brian that ended with the words "splish splash".
So let that be a lesson to you. Don't be the last to arrive.
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