On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:08:48 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>For the longest time (during the meal) I was just hoping that I
>was wrong and maybe imagining things. I didn't want to spoil my
>daughters special birthday meal either. Only at the very end did
>I realize that I was right and waitress did assume I was some old
>guy dating a young girl.
>
>You or someone here was right though....I should have announced
>the dad and daughter birthday thing right as we sat down. That's
>hindsight though. I never imagined that anyone would think the
>wrong scenario. Oh well.
>
>PS - my daughter did miss all that behind the scene nonsense.

Of course she missed it. It happened in your head.

>She DID have a nice steak dinner and that was my only concern.

Oh, stop it. Now I have tears in my eyes.