Buying dinner for the lady across the street

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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While I’m gone to Cincinnati for Thanksgiving, the lady across the street is going to feed my fish and make sure the cats don’t do something stupid like knock over their water bowl. Let me rephrase that. Make sure that while the cats are doing stupid stuff they don’t knock over their water bowl and end up without water for 4 days.

Anyway, I told her I’d buy her dinner when I got back. … Now I’m thinking that the Weight Watchers and Lean Cuisine dinners aren’t appropriate. She’s not overweight, but still. Now for me the Hungry-Man salisbury steak with mashed potatoes & gravy, corn, roll and desert sounds pretty appealling. But it just doesn’t seem to be fancy enough for repaying a favor.

What do you think I should do?

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if you don’t want to take her to a restaurant, try restaurant take out. any ideas on her fav. food or restaurant?

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If you’re trying to impress the lady next door or just pay her back for helping you out, regardless what the TV says frozen food isn’t the way to go.

Take her out, and don’t make it fast food. Doesn’t have to necessarily be fancy or anything, but “nice.”

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Well, you could really freak her out and bring her to the Christmas Dopefest!

Yes, I’d say that frozen meals, even Stouffers, are probably not the way to go. Maybe Luby’s? You could go really wild and crazy and take her to El Fenix!

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Why do I have this sudden urge to kick Lord Jim out of his kitchen and cook real food for him?

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So, y’all are thinking that duct taping a TV dinner to her front door is probably not a good idea. … Am I getting this right?

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Frozen food is definitely out of the question. I think you should take her to a nice restaurant. Nothing fancy, but something that definitely shows you appreciate her helping you out. I’m thinking mexican or possibly seafood.

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You can’t duct tape a TV dinner to her door. You live in Texas. What if it defrosted before she got home? You might give her food poisoning which is no way to say thank you. Maybe if you lived in Canada you could get away with it…

Try something that won’t go bad. Like hard candy or a couple of potatoes.

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I was just thinking (scary, I know). You could always grill a couple of steaks, throw in a couple of baked potatoes, and buy a salad at the market. That would work for me.

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How are you going to tape a salad to the door?

I guess you could put it in a bag.

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No, no. The salad is to leave a little trail so the neighbor will find her way to the real food inside Jim’s house.

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Grace, you’ll follow a trail of salad to my door? … It’s going to take a lot of salad but it’s worth it.

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No. If you lay a trail of salad for me to follow, I’ll be following the trail of dead animals on the highway to your house.

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Yeah, true, poor bunnies.

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Sounds like maybe you should forget the lady across the street and focus a bit more on the lady in Frisco…

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The lady in Frisco is one of my best buddies. She’ll follow me anywhere I ask her to without even leaving a trail of salad.

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Go wild, Lord Jim! Go completely overboard. Spring for a Big Mac and fries! :slight_smile:

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You are telling me that the Hungry man XXL dinners arent good enough for this woman ? Is she the Queen of England? I would serve Hungryman XXL dinners to the president if he came over. Those are top of the line. If she is too high and Mighty for Swansons and stouffers, I say, leave her alone.

I hope you know that I was just kidding, but 90 of my meals are frozen dinners :slight_smile:

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Yeah, and then help her file a lawsuit against McDonald’s to show you REALLY care!

:smiley:

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Flowerchild, you are kinda going against the tide here. Frozen dinners have gotten a pretty negative review. … As much as I thought it was a good idea, I was getting pretty convinced that it wasn’t the way to go.

John, Big Mac and Fries? Are you sure?