Missouri In July…

(My family and I are waiting to be seated at a restaurant on a July afternoon. This place has both indoor and outdoor seating. The outdoor seating is an open veranda that overlooks the vineyard. The hostess is a young-ish woman, perhaps a senior in high school or a freshman in college. A fifty-ish woman approaches the desk.)

Woman: “Excuse me, we have three for lunch.”

Hostess: “Would you prefer indoor or outdoor seating?”

Woman: *pauses for a moment* “Are there bugs outside?”

Hostess: “Well… it is outside.”

(We didn’t hear the rest over our giggles, but I wished I had given that hostess a high-five.)