Uncynical Wednesdays: Public Service Announcement

If you’re getting ready for a date that you’re excited about, and you’ve already bought everything for your menu of sautéed asparagus with cocktails, an appetizer of artichokes with garlic butter, and an entrée of pan-seared, curry dusted sea scallops on a bed of oven-roasted, vine-ripened tomatoes, and you get a phone call while you’re roasting the tomatoes and you hear:

‘I’ve been in an auto accident. I’m not going to make it.’

Do not default into putting the scallops and artichokes into the fridge, walking to the liquor cabinet and start drinking scotch.


This is important, because ninety minutes later you might get a call saying,

‘Everything’s worked out. Do you still want me to come over?’

Because then you have to: 1) Get the smell of scotch off your breath, 2) Cook dinner while being full-on drunk, 3) Remain functional as you continue with Lillet over grapefruit slices during the pre-meal, still cooking, and then the 2003 Groth sauv blanc with the meal, to say nothing of the after-dinner drinks 4) For the rest of the evening keep telling yourself: ‘stay witty, not drunk; stay witty, not drunk; stay witty, not drunk…’

This has been a Public Service announcement from your friends here at Playing Doctor.