My wife and I really like to dine out from time to time and we really like trying new places just to see what kind of options there are out there. There was this one place that we went to and we ordered our food like normal, but then the most amazing thing happened, the waitress asked me if I would like super salad. Super salad?! I had never heard of that before. I mean, there is such a thing? Why doesn’t anybody else have this wonderful treat on their menu? I have to wonder, what does it do? Is each salad endowed with a different super power? Do you get to choose a super power? Maybe it just gives you super energy like an energy drink but in salad form. The possibilities are endless. Even though I am not normally a salad person and am more partial to soup, I can’t pass this up, it’s too good to be true. “Absolutely, I would love some” I say to the waitress who is now looking at me wide eyed and now a little nervously (some of my pondering must have been out loud, maybe even in some kind of maniacal take over the world kind of manner), to which she asked “which one?”. Oh happy day, it is a choice. I have never been posed with this kind of choice before so I’ve never really thought about it, the excitement is killing me now. I should have been prepared, but how do you prepare for something like this? “Death-ray gazer vision with noxious gas cloud and explosive bodily function ability!!!” I finally blurted out, hoping to get it right, I mean nobody wants to accidentally get stuck with super drool right? As she was running from the table calling for the manager my wife informed me that she probably meant for me to choose between soup or salad. Oh well, I think she’ll get over it, I got the worst end of the altercation, I didn’t get even one of the powers. I would almost have even settled for the super drool, I could have figured out something to do with it.

It seems like I hear that question all the time since that day, but I handle it much better now. We’re allowed back in that restaurant again, and I stick with the soup, I think more so because of the negative feelings associated with the salad. It wasn’t super after all, what a let down.