I have a nasty and funny Red Lobster story if you got a sec....
My wife and I decided to do lunch at the RL on Wilshire Blvd in L.A., which is cool because they have these little garden booths that face the street for a cool view during the day. Anyway, our fruitcake waiter came over to take our order, and when I looked up at him I immediately noticed the biggest fish hook nosehair you ever fucking saw hanging out of his nose. I mean, the dude had black hair naturally, but he had a huge BLONDE tweaker just dangling outta his schnauz. After he took our order (and completely grossing us out in the process), I tell my wife, "That thing is gonna be in our goddamn food! Just watch!" So, of course, we're fucking dying laughing and shitting our pants at the same time. A few minutes later, he comes back with our drinks, and the hook is still there. A few minutes after that he comes with the ultra-yummy cheesy bread and salads, and the giant hair is still hanging outta his nose. The smell of that bread miraculously brought our appetites back, so we commenced to chowing down. Just about the time we finish our salads, gaffy comes back with our food, and guess what? Yes, the beast is gone.... Needless to say, we freaked out and just sat there looking at each other wondering who was gonna look down at their plate first. The waiter reappears shortly with food for the couple sitting directly behind me and proceeds to serve them. Keep in mind that we're still not touching our food.... After this guy leaves the couple behind me, I hear the man say in a semi-loud tone "OH MY GOD! THERE'S A GIANT HAIR IN MY SHRIMP!!!" My wife and I both gave each other the "Holy Shit!" face and started cracking up. I turned around and told the guy that we were watching that hair the whole time, and knew that it was bound to turn up in someone's food. The couple called the waiter over and told him that there was a hair in their food, and they got up and actually left. Well, after we calmed down a bit, a sense of relief came over us and we went to town on our still kinda warm food. It was damn good, too.
I'm a total seafood junkie. I do a lot of offshore fishing, and there's always fish in the freezer. I eat seafood 4 to 5 times a week. Red Lobster rules, as far as I'm concerned. Long John Silver's is the fuckin' shit. I like high class places too. Maybe I'll do lunch at Legal Seafood downtown D.C. tomorrow.....yum!