Pretend Mexican Food

I'm back, as promised. What a month it has been! I took a little hiatus because I wanted to spend every spare minute studying for an Arabic test which could lead at some point lead to a job.....well too bad I didn't do so hot on that test. One mistake got me flustered and I fumbled through the rest. I don't know what the bar is, because I don't know how many civilians are willing to go to Iraq...but even in this economy I can only assume that the bar is pretty high, probably higher than I scored. So back to the grind for me! And by grind, I don't mean work because I didn't actually stop working at my stupid restaurant job, but I mean the grind of applying to places desperately hoping that someone wants to give me an interview.

In the meantime, me and Mary hit up a "Mexican" restaurant by the name of Tres Hombres. The quotation marks are because this restaurant claimed to be Mexican food, but it was actually disgusting food. To start, our service was absolutely terrible. We planned on buying a frozen drink because there were a lot of flavors that were appealing, but when we asked our server what "Blue Hawaii" tastes like, this was our conversation:

Server: "Oh you know....nothing really."

Mary: "Ummmm....nothing..?"

Server: "Yeah, it doesn't really have a flavor."

Me: "Ooook. So What about Jungle Juice?" (<--side note...Mary kept calling it "Jungle Fever" instead hahaha silly naive girl)

Server: "Um yeah I mean people don't complain about it."

Mary: "So they like it?"

Server: "Eh, like I said, no complaints."

Me: "Ok well this is pointless, we'll just have waters."

Those drinks were 6 bucks! Stupid girl could easily have sold them to us and upped her ticket price therefore her tip. She was completely unattentive, and really the whole experience of nasty food could have been off-set a bit had she maybe smiled just once. But no. And I'm just going to copy and paste the comment from a picture on Facebook to save time here haha. This was the meal: over-cooked dry seasonless chicken pretending to be fajita meat, microwaved tortillas from Walmart, watery guacamole, crunchy rice, and burnt beans. And Mary's was supposed to be a chicken burrito, but was actually a tortilla that housed the same disgusting chicken and was topped with what we can only describe as bbq sauce. The sides on her plate were identical to mine, down to the grossness. I had planned on buying flan as dessert, but after that whole episode we decided to hit up The Dodo after our movie instead. I never tip less than 20-25%. This girl got 10%. Which is really really saying something coming from me. 

I don't care what you say, I'll never go there again. And to think someone had recommended that place. What a disappointment. Me thinks that someone has never actually tasted real Mexican food before...what a dreary world that person must live in!

Our movie: 

Really cute movie, loved the cast. I just feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I were just a tad more cultured in the humanities department...Most of the humor of the movie came from jokes about artists from the past, and while I understood a lot of those jokes, I definitely need to be more educated in that department. Great movie, but only if you know a thing or 2 about literature and art.