Restaurant at the Park

The service was extremely slow. It took us forever to get our drinks, and they tried to give us the wrong drinks too, except for me since I didn’t get one. I only wanted French fries and even that took forever. Leah’s food had a bug or two on it, but she ate a couple bites anyway. I don’t think they even remembered to give Xiaoxia her food, but I could be wrong. At first they gave Emerson an old bowl of rice from another table. He realized it was old right away and freak out, and they gave him a new one. My fries came eventually.

I paid my full R10. Then I left because I knew the others would probably pitch a fight and it’d go poorly. They caught up with me. Eventually the park police caught up with us too, as did the owner of the restaurant. She was pointing her finger and glaring at me, implying that I did something wrong, which was silly because I was the only one that paid full price or anything even close. All the others only paid R2, even though the whole bill was R55. I don’t know how the hell they expected to get away with that. Leah spoke to them in Spanish, which is basically Portuguese, but they pretended not to understand. They ended up just paying the rest. I paid nothing because I already paid in full.

One of the officers kept trying to get us to go under the park bridge just for shade, but no one ever did. I asked some passersby if they spoke English and none of them wanted to help. I think they thought we were in trouble for something much more serious than not paying for food that had bugs on it.

We took the bus back. I sat near Xiaoxia again. They went shopping when we got back to the terminal, and I went back to the ship, and got on for the last time.