unsuccessful Father's Day

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Yesterday was HOT (over 106F!) and miserable, and the power went out in our whole neighborhood just as I was about to cook the special dinner I had planned for Father's Day. . We ended up going to a Home Town Buffet which I had never gone to before, and I wish I had found a different option... this place was FILTHY. Shockingly filthy. I'm talking about puddles of brown water standing on the tiles near the beverage area, ice cream from the soft serve machine piled up on the floor where it has run out of the nozzles, more puddles of dirty water near the kitchen entrance, salad dressings mixed together and smeared over the counter in the salad bar, soggy ice cream cones smashed into a pond of sundae syrups at the dessert counter. Then there was the lack of food... I understand that customers eat food, and sometimes there's a little wait before the trays get restocked, but we were waiting for half an hour for many of those trays to get refilled... and the majority of the trays were empty. We had to wait 15 minutes for plates too! There were no plates at all, and people were just wandering around from station to station, looking for any plate whatsoever. I'm not even going to tell you about the restroom. Let's just say that the sign stating that they like to keep their restrooms clean and stocked was seriously ironic. When we got home, the power was back on, but it was time for the kids to go to bed. Not at all the Father's Day I had hoped to celebrate with our family.