Let's get lunch, or maybe not...

So I'm going to interrupt my memories series blurbs to share my very frustrating story. Today Shane and I went to Applebee's for lunch. We got there and they were pretty buys, but we were seated right away and were told our food would be there in time for us to get back to work. We got our drinks, ordered and waited. Everyone around us, some who got there after us, received their food, ate, and paid before we had still seen our plates. Finally about thirty five minutes later the waitress comes around, sees that Shane and I are a little irritated and says I promise guys it's almost done. By this time it was too late. Shane and I had to leave to get back to work on time. I told her it didn't matter, we had to leave and that she was going to have to cancel our order and that we also needed our check so that we could pay for our drinks. She felt so bad that our food never arrived that she told us not to worry about paying for our drinks. Shane and I said thank you and got up and left. We feel really bad because we know the waitress is going to have to pay for those drinks and those meals if she couldn't' get them canceled in time, but we really had to go. So Shane and I spent our entire lunch smelling everyone else's yummy food, while not getting to enjoy any of our own. I was a little crabby about it for the rest of the day. but luckily for us the waitress was really nice about it and did seem genuinely sorry so this bad experience won't keep us from going back.