No lunch

[ladyofastolat]

Grump! This is the second week in a row that I have to dance between 12 and 2, which takes me out the house from 11.30 to 2.30, or so. Who arranges these things? Don't they believe in lunch? Yes, we often dance outside pubs and cafés and places that serve food, but you can't eat a sit-down lunch when you've got to get up every few minutes to do a 5 minute dance, and it's a bit cheeky to take sandwiches when you're on the premises of a pub that serves food. I know that some people are lucky enough to be flexible about meal times. Pellinor (and my Mum) can forget to eat lunch, and don't even notice. However I (like my Dad) get icy cold, dizzy and utterly pathetic if lunch is delayed. I can just about wait until 1, although I might have to wrap up warm to last that long. Any later than that, and I dissolve into a heap of sobbing uselessness.

So I'm going to have to eat lunch at 11, which will of course just set up problems later, since I'll then have to eat dinner early, too. Grr!

Besides, as we discovered last week, the audiences don't really turn up until 2-ish, anyway. Last week, we danced by the exit of a huge, touristy car park in a tourist honeypot, just outside a touristy café and a touristy gift shop. Barely a soul there at 12. Three coach-loads of tourists and a few hundred cars by 2, just as we were finishing. Grump!

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I'd happily never visit said pub again, quite apart from any possible sandwich-related misdemeanours they may or may not be planning to commit. However, the dance side that has invited us to dance with them today virtually lives there. I don't think we've ever danced with them in any other location!

I really should learn to be more pushy (in a polite, good way) when it comes to being a customer. I do that stereotypical English "oh, I couldn't possibly complain or be an imposition" thing. A few weeks ago, I asked in an ice cream place if their chocolate chip cookie ice cream contained nuts. They made such a performance about finding out - a second staff member kept wandering up to make pointed comments about the amount of effort the first one was being put to. I ended up feeling awful... but, really, I was in the right, and they were in the wrong, and exhibiting bad customer service. But knowing that and believing that is a very different thing.

[purplecat]

It seems to me there are a whole load of issues here which might be solved in a number of ways (long term) - e.g., requesting the inviting side to make sure that there are sandwiches available (I'm sure the pub would be happy to create some just for the Morris team for a reasonable sum of money to which you could all contribute). I mean I'm assuming the pub would make more money, not just from you, but also from Pellinor et al, if you could all easily and quickly access some food while you danced and I bet they'd be fairly willing to bring out a big plate of sandwiches for you all at 12.30 or something if properly warned in advance and remunerated.

For today though, it does sound surreptitious home sandwiches are the way to go.

I assume you will not be returning to said ice cream place...

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

When a dance side is hosting a weekend, with lots of visiting sides, they do tend to arrange for a buffet lunch to be laid on, but it doesn't seem to happen when it's only local sides. As it turns out, there were 6 groups there, so I would have had plenty of time to order - though then I'd have worried about being up and dancing when they came out with my order and were shouting my number (Pellinor was at Springfest, so wouldn't have been there to claim it.) Oh well... I took surreptitious sandwiches, and nobody complained.

I definitely won't be returning to said ice cream place, especially since they were very over priced. A week later, in a different place, we paid less for an amazingly generous double scoop, than this place had charged us for a small single scoop.