Sweet!.... Tomatoes
BY JENIECE "GIDGET" TORANZO, MESA, ARIZONA- The other night, Tuesday, some of the crew (Nick, Carlos, Mike, M.K. Cyndi, and I) went to Sweet Tomatoes in Phoenix. It's a great place. All you can eat. Can't go wrong with that. Of course, we started our meals out with a gigantic salad. I think they have you start out with that cause you can definitely fill up on that and not be able to eat as much on the good stuff. Just a theory. After the salad, most of us went for the soups. Yeah, you can tell we have a big hearty appetite right now-huh. All the soups ended up being low fat and most of them were tomato based. Sounds yummy huh? Yeah if you have some kind of a tomato fetish I guess.
Anyway, back to the story. M.K. had one of the soups and added Tabasco sauce in it. She had me try it. Boy oh boy was it spicy! That's a spicy soup! I about died! I had to eat a cookie after that to calm it down cause it was a burning in my mouth! Never again will I do that. What was I thinking cause I already know that I can't handle the spicy foods. Yeah kinda goofy huh when I'm part hispanic. Carlos was making fun of me. I was eating my chicken noodle soup, by the way, I don't think the noodles are cooked all the way. Just an FYI. I was eating the broth part of the soup and I was hovering over the bowl when I see Carlos out of the corner of my eye, next to me, rub his hands together. I thought he was making fun of me and I busted out laughing so hard that I almost spit the soup out. But really, he was just asking me for a napkin. I don't know what was up with me that night because another incident happened. I remember at one point, coming back from the soup area and going back to the table, I got all sad and Cyndi knew why and had to put me on the spot. It was because the last time we were at a Sweet Tomatoes, Alec and Jacob were there with us and we were sitting pretty much in the same area as we did last time. Cyndi said," just pretend that we are waiting for them, like usual. They are taking longer to get ready." That kinda helped because it was easy to do. But I was still bummed knowing that they are gone now and off doing their own thing which I am happy and excited for them. I will miss them very much. We were like the three musketeers. Only I'm a girl, not a boy. We can improvise though right? Right. I guess it just sucks because this project is coming to an end soon and the relationships that we have built with everyone will soon fizzle down. I hope to keep in touch with everyone, but that's easier said than done.
After that, Cyndi went and got a new straw and mentioned that the one she had was broken. I could not help it but laugh and I was laughing for about 10 minutes! It was a long time and no one knew why which made it even more funnier. I even started to cry. I eventually spitted out what I was laughing about. It was because before we sat down, I went to get a drink and a straw. I tried to open the straw by tapping it open and ended up breaking it. You know how you can just tell, once you bust it. So I got a new one and left the broken one on my tray. When I sat down, Cyndi grabbed the other straw off my tray (the broken one). I didn't tell her that it was broken. For some reason I thought, well maybe it's not broken and if it is, then she will find out. Well she didn't say anything about it throughout our whole dinner until we were almost done.Then she got up and went to get a new straw and said "that straw was broken. I've been sucking this whole time through a broken straw. This time I got two just in case." I must say, it was the funniest thing to me and no one knew why. I don't even know why it was so funny. I haven't laughed like that to where I start to cry, in a long time. Aww...it felt good. You should try it sometime.:)