bread and butter

And if the news about the car weren't exciting enough, when our server brought our bread and butter at CPK this evening, there was an even number of slices on the plate. My observations in the past had led me to a hypothesis that restaurant policy is to provide only (n×2)-1 slices where n = the number of people at the table, meaning that you're always a slice short of a fair distribution. But tonight we both got two full slices.

And more than two pats of butter per slice, when the usual distribution usually is about a 1:1 ratio. It just doesn't get any better than this.

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