If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Gluten
(I am working as a waitress, and a group of two adults and three children sit at a table in my section.)
Me: *speaking to one of the children* “Do you know what you want to drink, sweetheart?”
Child #1: “Lemonade.”
(I repeat the same question to the next child and her response is also “lemonade,” and I write both orders down. I then repeat the question to the next child, and he looks at his mother.)
Child #3: “Mommy, can I have a lemonade?”
Mother: *to the child* “No, you can have water or milk. Which do you want?” *to me* “He has several food allergies; he can have milk or water, but no nuts or gluten… Unless your lemonade is gluten-free!”
Me: “I can assure you, ma’am, that there’s no gluten in our lemonade.”
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