Sadistic Parents Like Fried Shrimp

... thus leading their kids to Clark's Fish Camp.

Otherwise known as a permanent scar in child memory. I think this post warrants it's own blog category, "Another Bad Decision":





But the seafood was good! Alright. Not that good. We just really thought the girls would get a kick out of all the zoo hand-me-downs. (I'm not even kidding. Our taxidermied dinner guests were given to this classy restaurateur by the local zoo.) And despite our attempts to clarify "once alive" from "not alive anymore", they both sat motionless, waiting for a large cat to jump into their basket of popcorn shrimp. Little was eaten that night.

I felt awful:
(Caught by the bartender and some regulars making the universal cat-claw gesture to the camera. This is me embarrassed.)

The upside? I got my picture taken for the first time in... ever. Apparently, ladies, if you want the mister to point the camera in your direction, it helps to be surrounded by stuffed wildlife.

6 comments:

Lisa Page Rosenberg said...

Thanks. I might have to be a vegetarian now.

dera frances white said...

i have a love/hate relationship with clark's. takes tacky and kitsch to an all new (unintentional) level. neither surf nor turf are good here, but we still go every time we visit his mom in jax. this was the first/last time with kids though.

Erin said...

it's good to see your face.

janet l moran said...

Sounds like a good threat to use in the future - "Straighten up or I'll send you to Clarks!"
I love seeing pictures of you! You look especially good on a trampoline

Madeline said...

Oh. my. Is that really a restaurant?! I thought the one I went to on one of my last vacations was bad, but at that one you just had the pleasure of hundreds of dead deer staring at you from every crack and cranny around. Lions take taxidermy decor to a whole new level.

Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom said...

Hahahaha that's hilarious and awful and awesome... love the cat-claw photo!