The Great Lawson's Chicken Disappearance Saga

Alright...

So Saturday at moms they had 14 people, 8 adults and six kids.

They had already cooked out lunch for everybody.

For diner Mom and Al decided to just feed everybody some Lawson's Fried Chicken.

Now Lawson's is a lil hole in the wall joint over in Indiana.

Bar and grill type place.

The room in the back is for the buffet during the day.

TV's here and there, sports bar themed, dark, place has some miles on it.

Anyway, the place has fantastic fried chicken.

So they ordered 20 pieces, two buckets, mom made some potatoes and some mac and cheese was present and that was going to be dinner for everyone.

The fun starts when Al, John (His son), Alex (His grandson) and I go to pick up the chicken.

It's about15 minutes away.

We all go in and have a seat at a table.

Al orders a beer, so we all do.

We are about finished with the first round and the lady comes back and says it's gonna be another 10 minutes or so on the chicken, well with that being the case everybody else gets another beer. 

Except me :-). 

See I'm a good boy sweetheart, I had a water :-).

Were just sitting, shooting the bull, watchin a lil football, waiting on the chicken.

Lady comes back a lil later and puts it on the counter and tells us it's ready.

Al goes and pays and then comes back to finish his beer.

Just let it sit on the counter you know?

We'll get it here in a second.

Well in a flash Al downs his beer and slammed his glass on the table and looked John in the eye and said, "You need to finish up" and got up and left, without saying a word about where he was going lol.

So Me and Alex and John are sitting there and a few minutes later Alex said "Did he just take the chicken and leave?" Me and John look at the counter and the chicken is gone. The looks on all three of our faces was like: "He freakin left!" Alex said "I can't believe that, an 87 year old man gonna drink us under the table and then leave." So we get up and head to the car in the parking lot thinking Al was leaving. (The bill had been settled with the chicken). We get to the car? Yeah, one problem, no Al lol. We're like "Where in the hell did he go?" So we go back inside and Al's coming out of the bathroom lol. He just looked at us like "What the hell are you three idiots doing coming back in? Where did you all go?" The lady handling our order shows back up with the chicken, "Ya'll leaving? I had your order under the heat lamp." She knew what had happened lol. She looked at us like "You crazy people, get your damn chicken and get out of here already." 

Which is what we promptly did, all of us laughing at what had just transpired, as were the rest of Lawson's patrons lol. 

We laughed all the way home. 

The looks on all of our faces when we collectively thought "HE LEFT!" lol. 

Then the confused look on Al's face when he sees us walking back in :-). 

Then the look on the bartender's face when she was laughing at us.

Priceless lol.

In our defense, there are times when it is very likely that Al would pull something like taking the chicken and leaving lol.

I mean we all three honestly believed thats what he had done, because it's like something he would do on occasion.

Just not this time :-).

Thank goodness. 

And that, is The Great Lawson's Chicken Disappearance Saga.

Love ya Lucy.