Where's My Fry Fill?

"We have unlimited, endless, bottomless fries and drinks that include soda's, ice tea's and lemonades" 

 If you don't know this yet I bartend at Red Robin. A wonderful, fun burger and brews joint that I do enjoy working at mainly because of my co-workers and great love of food in general. I've been there for three years now and have repeated that sentence probably hundreds of times. I was at a table today doing my spiel like I do at every table and really focused on the words I was saying. I don't know why I was really thinking about the words that were coming out of my mouth this time as opposed to all the other short speeches I have given but for some reason I just had a revelation of sorts while offering this endless opportunity.  

What I found was that what I was saying was crazy. We offer bottomless fries. UNLIMITED. As many as you can handle is how I put it as some sort of joke. No one can eat unlimited fries. I don't know why but I just instantly thought about how easy we have it here in America where we can go into an establishment and drink and eat as much as we possible want. What a privilege. What a way of life. A majority of people around the world struggle to just find clean water or their next meal and here I am 3 fry fills deep to one table asking me for another. 

"Where's my fry fill?" 

"Sorry sir, it takes 5 minutes to cook the fries and I wanted to make sure you had hot ones since the ones I got were cold" 

So I threw them out. What a waste. What impatience. Where's my fry fill? Do you need another fry fill? Can I have some more fries? So ridiculous how we look at food as not being so much a necessity in america but an option. We can go without eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner cause we know if I don't eat now, I will later. There are options. I need food to live sure that's a necessity but it's really my option to eat as little or as much as I want. How lucky. How fortunate. 

Maybe I'm crazy. I just think we need to be more thankful for this option. We waste so much of our energy on being mad at the fact it took a little bit longer to get our food when we go out or get mad that something wasn't hot enough, cold enough, whatever it may be. I am just thankful I have the option to eat whatever I want whenever I want. I'm thankful to be able to give people food who might not appreciate the fact that they are able to get as many fry fills as they want. I'm thankful for thinking this way and being more appreciative for the food I have in my home this very moment. I'm not saying you have the think the way I do but maybe just think about it. 

There are people who don't have food who would be more than happy to have that cold fry fill. Who would be happy to have three glasses of water and not have to ask for their refill. 

These are some of the boys that I absolutely adore from my trip to the Dominican. We put on a school day celebration for all the kids going to attend school that year and their families. We brought them food as well and I waited in line with these three boys squished between a hundred other families waiting to get food. They were hungry; they were thirsty; but they never once complained while waiting in line. 

When we finally got to the font of the buffet line they were very hesitant as to how much food to take and I told them they could take as much as their plate could fit. They took everything and ate everything. They were so happy and so thankful to get some food. I don't know how long it had been since their last meal but I was just thankful to be able to be with them and see them get a good meal. I had a water bottle filled with water and kept giving it to them. I filled it about four times (it was a 32oz water bottle) for them. They wouldn't ask but I kept asking "are you thirsty" and they would say yes and I'd give them water. They needed it more than I did. They were thirsty I was not. They were hungry. I was not. 

I guess hearing myself say "endless fry fills" and "endless drinks" just seems crazy that I am offering that to one person when I want to offer it to those three boys, or that entire town, or even that entire country. This life is too short to complain "where's my fry fill". 

Just be thankful.