Free Food is the new awesome

I like food. And I like it even more when it is free. In my collegiate, non-salaried years I was not above sitting in restaurants and nonchalantly stealing uneaten food off of plates of neighboring tables after the owners had left so that I wouldn't have to actually pay for a meal. I am obviously not the type of person to turn down free food when it comes my way, and this last week seemed to be full of free food opportunities!

First, we said our final goodbyes to Caroline at our favorite Sunset Thai restaurant. We told the waiters that it was Caroline's birthday, because that way they dim the lights in the whole restaurant, play creepy sinatra-esque happy birthday music, and bring this awesome plate of FREE fried bananas and mango icecream for us all to share.



And last week, right after First Thursday Gallery Stroll, some strange guy was standing outside of the galleries with a big sign that said FREE, and he had laid out all these boxes of old, slightly damaged looking food, and was trying to get all the art walkers to take it.

This looks a little bit like garbage, but it was the stuff this guy was trying to pass off as free food.

Still. It WAS free. So michael, grace, george and I got ourselves an angel food cake!

Best of all was this perfectly good vending machine full of knock-off ding dongs that someone had pushed out of a second story window. There was no way Aaron, Jared and I were going to let those plastic wrapped gems go to waste.

If things keep going like this, I may never need to actually buy food again!