Bargains make me smile

I went to lunch to Olive Garden with a friend on Saturday. It was 4:10. We quickly found out that the lunch menu ended at 4. Well, shoot. Being the cheap skates we were, we meticulously looked through the dinner menu for the best deal. We settled on ordering soup. One bowl was $5.65. You may be thinking, "What a rip!" but indeed it was not. The soup is bottomless and it also comes with bread sticks (which are of course MY favorite part of Olive Garden). So endless soup and endless bread sticks. Pretty good deal. Then to make a good thing spectacular, the waiter got our order wrong. She brought us a huge bowl of salad. And once a waiter sets something on your table, there's no going back. So we got to eat it at no charge. The cherry on the cake was that the waiter gave us, not two but six mints Andes mints to 'cleanse our palet.' *contented sigh* A good meal, especially a good meal for a bargain always makes me happy.