Momo Fali's: The Winking Lizard

Friday, February 6, 2009

The Winking Lizard

My husband, the kids and I recently ate dinner at a local tavern called, The Winking Lizard. This restaurant is well-known for its buttery popcorn that you serve up yourself out of a giant popper (which the kids love), and also for its World Beer Tour (which the adults enjoy).

They also have a very large, glass-enclosed area where they house a live lizard. Not some pansy gecko, but a big creature the size of a tree limb. Needless to say, my six year old son was quite interested in it.

But I didn't quite grasp his excitement, because I didn't see it coming when he came back to the table after using the restroom, and loudly announced to our table and to a roomful of patrons, "Hey Dad! I just went to the bathroom and I saw the big lizard!"

Labels: Kids, Shameless Statements, The Places in My Neighborhood

# posted by Momo Fali : 6:50 AM

Comments:

SNAP! And so we come full circle!

I confess when I saw the post title, I was thinking something very much like that. I guess there is still a little boy in me :)

Funny stuff, and now I want a beer...

# posted by

Irish Gumbo : February 6, 2009 at 7:06 AM

Awesome kid! The lizard tank should be like a lobster tank. You pick the one you want and they cook it up for ya!

# posted by

WeaselMomma : February 6, 2009 at 7:41 AM

Hahaha... it always happens in a room full of people, no?

# posted by

OHmommy : February 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM

And Dad just smiled wide and nodded, "That's m'boy." Right?

# posted by

Josi : February 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM

I have one of those. The volume control is set permanently to "too loud" and the appropriateness switch is on the fritz.

Can we hope it gets better with age? Meanwhile, have you got ammo for his teenage years!

# posted by

Ann in NJ : February 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM

Can I ask ?? Do you live in Columbus, Ohio! I used to frequent the Winking Lizard on Bethal Rd in Columbus - wondering if it's the same one.

# posted by

Jamie : February 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM

LMAO!!!!! OMGawd that is just toooooo funny and i so would have died and turned all kindsa red

# posted by

Unknown : February 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM

That's a trip! It's starting already, huh?

# posted by

Mama Dawg : February 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM

I've heard that men's bathrooms are filled with one-eyed lizards. how cool! ;)

# posted by

Anonymous : February 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM

......reason #1357900865311345435642580086 why I love your kid.

I can only hope you'll save that story for his wedding ;)

# posted by

Anonymous : February 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Wait. Worse?

Hey Mom, Dad and I just went to the bathroom and I saw the big lizard!

# posted by

unmitigated me : February 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM

Kind of like my guy exclaiming rather loudly "ouch I smashed my balls" in the middle of a crowded restaurant. GAH!

# posted by

kaila : February 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM

as the cops storm the bathroom...

# posted by

Martin : February 6, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Ahhhhah, woohoo! Classic.

# posted by

Surfer Jay : February 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM

HA HAAAAAAA !!!! Classic moments

# posted by

Speedcat Hollydale : February 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM

They are the gift that keeps on giving.

# posted by

Captain Dumbass : February 6, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Heeee-larious! My son said something like that ("gotta go drop the Brown family off at the pool") when he was 6! He did this at Olive Garden...crikey! Some lovely kid from school gave him that lovely ditty...oy!

# posted by

Dawn Parsons Smith : February 6, 2009 at 5:17 PM

I love that kid!

# posted by

Tara R. : February 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM

And just when I didn't think he could get any cuter!!

# posted by

Anonymous : February 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM

This is so funny it is makin me cry.

# posted by

Aunt Debbi/kurts mom : February 6, 2009 at 11:17 PM

OMG! Hilarious and ironic... I say The SAME Thing when I leave a public restroom. What a coincidence!

# posted by

David Peters : February 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM

If only you'd had a snare and cymbal.

# posted by

Tom : February 7, 2009 at 5:59 PM

Just wait until he blurts it out in High School Algebra class. Location is everything.

# posted by

Anonymous : February 7, 2009 at 11:30 PM

d'oh!

# posted by

Piper of Love : February 7, 2009 at 11:37 PM

LOL! Sweet boy...we lived very very close to the first Winking Lizard. It's a place I know well ;)

# posted by

Miss Lisa : February 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM

I've never read your blog before, but the kid must get that sort of delivery from somewhere. Parental? I think so. I love stuff like that and it NEVER embarrasses me. Kids need a lot of freedom to just spit it out. *cough*
~Mary

# posted by

Anonymous : February 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Good thing it wasn't a large python. There is much more universal understanding of large snake jokes in mens rooms...

# posted by

OhCaptain : February 8, 2009 at 10:26 PM

...and you sit and wonder why you always have to hang out with THESE people...

LOL Poor Momo!

# posted by

laurelei : February 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Oh dear, he would. Too funny.

# posted by

Jaina : February 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM

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