NEW YORK FOR THREE MORE DAYS

Tuesday we decided to go to daily Mass at The Church of St. Agnes. It's more of a neighborhood church than St. Patrick's. There were about 20 people there for the 12:40 Mass.

Beautiful Altar.

 We decided go to TKTS a little later than usual. I had several good reasons for this.

1. Monday was a long day.
2. We have tickets from Monday's show so we can "Fast Pass" to the head of the line.
3. Historically, Box Office managers don't always send their best tickets first. TKTS opens at 2 or 3 for evening shows. Many times the really good seats don't get there until 5 or even 5:30.

So the three of us walked across town around 5 o'clock. GIANT MISTAKE !  I guess I'd never done this during Spring Break. They only had 3 seats together for two shows, neither of which excited us. The ones we wanted to see bad enough to sit separately only had obstructed view seats.

Well, if no theater tonight, we'll have dinner instead. There is a new Junior's on Broadway just 4 blocks north of the old one. It was jammed. 20 minute wait. The food was as good as always.

Carol had the Bacon Cheeseburger with Fries and Onion Rings.

I had a Pastrami on Rye.

Andrew had the 20 oz Sirloin. Carol and I were looking forward to the leftovers to have Steak and Eggs for breakfast. Didn't happen. He didn't like the veggies, but the rest of the plate was clean when he was done.

Carol and I each took half of ours back to the unit.

The service was terrible. Which is unusual for Junior's.  The food came fairly quickly but our waitress never checked on us again. We saw her but she was always running and spent a lot of her time at the far end of the restaurant. She appeared to have a station that covered half the floor. We overheard people complaining all around us. When we finally got our waitress to bring our bill I asked who was responsible for scheduling tables because it looked like hers were scattered all over the place. She said that most of the staff was new by Junior's standards. And they were jammed because of  Spring Break. And two people had called in sick. They were covering as best they could.
Many of  you know that my son, Adam is a restaurant manager. After watching and talking with him I said that if I had his job, after 30 days the only question would be, were all the homicides I was accused of customers, staff or a combination. Our waitress and the manager we saw getting yelled at kept their cool the whole time and just kept going.

We headed back to the East Side early with plans to do things differently tomorrow.