When did kids with crayons at your restaurant blow everybody's minds?

I once drew a very detailed, by crayon standards anyway, diagram of a sea cucumber when I was a wee lead,

and I watched the busboy just crumple my masterpiece up with all the other garbage and toss it away.

My niece was always quite the drama queen. About nine years ago, we were eating at a restaurant,

and I saw her drawing a lovely landscape. It was adorable watching her draw a sun, wearing sunglasses,

grass, flowers, and a tombstone. Concerned, I asked what she was drawing. She said,

It's me. We waited so long here that I died. She's an even

more dramatic teenager now. God help me. I work as a waiter in Harvester. An eight to 10 year old

boy simply wrote, Mum is a butthole on one of our drawing pads. This one kid, about five or six,

drew a very detailed picture of two people doing the deed. His parents didn't even acknowledge it. They drew an animal with two heads

directly onto the table. I asked them what it was supposed to be, and apparently it was their

pet dog. Parents offered no explanation on why their pet had two heads or why they let their

kid draw on the table in the first place. So I showed the kid how he could use a wet wipe as an

eraser. When I was in college, my much older sister invited me to dinner at this Italian restaurant

with her husband and friends. I knew nobody. I was a nerdy college student and my sister worked as a dentist,

and my brother-in-law was a banker. I had no conversation connections to them or their friends.

After sitting awkwardly quiet for several minutes, I noticed crayons on the table. I picked them up

and coloured a random rainbow design on the butcher paper tablecloth. None of the other dinner

guests acknowledged my drawing. I just doodled and doodled as they discussed the adult world.

Soon, the waiter came over to refresh our drinks. He noticed my rainbow doodle and immediately started

to fawn over my design. Now this is a fabulous piece of art. We are going to display this

masterpiece on the big fridge in our kitchen. We are going to display this masterpiece on the

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