Finding Balance: Guilty Splurges

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

My best friend and I used to frequent bowling alleys and restaurants almost everyday after work. We would bring the kids out or go ourselves and have a grand ole time.A

After all, you only live once.

One of our favorite places to go is Olive Garden. Man do we LOVE Olive Garden. It’s breadsticks dipped in alfredo sauce alone, is to die for. Seriously, if you haven’t tried it, I recommend it.

I like to frequent one of their soups along with the breadsticks and my friend absolutely adores chicken alfredo. So we could set there for hours just raking up the bill on ordering alfredo sauce for our endless breadsticks.

One afternoon after we finally had our fill, we decided we needed to tip the server very generously. She was absolutely wonderful and always checked on us. Our bill was $230 with her having a $115 dollar tip. We talked about her getting exactly what our meal was.

She was so thankful and when we left, she had tears rolling down her face as she talked to the other that she worked with. We left and went home happy that for once we were able to tip generously and feel really good about it.

It was a bill well worth it.