Choices - thoughts from Tom

Choice is good. Yes?" Too much choice is bad. Yes? or No? or Don't
Know? or even Maybe?

So six guys trying to decide on the menu and then getting barraged in
a Paxman like quizzitorial can delay matters somewhat. Right, big
time..

The server ( as they are termed - and they get an 18%, yes 18% tip)
pose a question and and a further question to every decision you have
painfully arrived at after a full ten minutes of agony perusing the
enticing, mouthwatering, fullsome menu.

Lets take a typical scenario:

"I will take the Seafood pasta, please" (Phew, relieved that I arrived
at a decision)

"O.K, is that fettuchini, tortellini or ravioli?"

"Oh, um, pause, scratch head, "Fettuchini, please" (Not sure just what
fettutini is, but I simply cannot ask!)

"O.K, is that marinara, or garlic and white wine"

"Oh, Eh,  Um "garlic and white wine"

"O.K, is that 6 oz or 14 oz"

"Eh, oh God, um, "14 oz"

"O.K, what do you want with that, Soup or Salad"

"Oh, so what is the soup?"

"Its tomato basil OR french onion"

(Thinking this is too tough) " I'll go with Salad"

"O.K, so what dressing do you want - 1,000 Islands, Blue Cheese, French, Ceasar.

(Will this inquisition ever end?) "Eh,, Ceasar"

"No problem - who is next?"

These sort of choices proliferate. So go into Subway for a simple
sandwich and breads come as Wheat, Italian, Sourdough, Pitta, Seeded.
The fillings and the fixings then bewilder. Ad nauseum.

So ordering for the whole group started off by taking an age. Now we
are wise. We mentally assess all the options and ,in stacatto fashion,
blurt out the full set of decisons before the server has a moment o go
through the permutaions. ( Of course she can't understand our accents
and still goes thru them).

Or else we simple order the same as each other. Group Think rules O.K.
Tuna Subways are very poular these days. Of course everyone has
followed MY choice. O.K?