I took my girlfriend to a fancy dinner for our anniversary.

said we hadn’t ordered it. He refilled the wineglasses at the table beside us three times and never once came back to ours. When Ava’s water glass sat empty, I finally flagged him down.

He looked at me like I had snapped my fingers.

“Sir, I have other tables.”

“I can see that. We’re one of them.”

Ava whispered, “Noah, please.”

So I stopped.

I stopped because continue reading …