⛥𝕬𝖒𝖕𝖍𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖙⛦

So Jakkie and I were playing PlateUp. Small restaurant, steak menu. Jakkie cooks and I wait tables. We get four back-to-back orders for well-done steak, Jakkie quips "enjoy your shoe leather, sir."

I start asking for "another shoe leather" whenever someone orders well-done.

We add a new menu item: au jus, red wine steak sauce. "Shoe leather with au ju" is far too many syllables to call out as an order. It quickly morphs into "well done with sauce", and then "shoe with sauce", and finally "wet boot".

We rename the restaurant to "Wet Boot." We have limited space, but we begin building around the theme. Automatic well-done steaks. Pre-made au jus in the freezer. Finally, a display stand, to make this our official daily special.

Day 14, two days before franchising, Jakkie says "what if we make the special be a dry rare steak? Those are easier to make." But I counter: "we've won this game before. What matters more? Winning? Or Wet Boot?"

We got halfway through day 14. Dirty dishes everywhere, steak in the sink, and suddenly we get a bunch of orders for medium steak, which our assembly line is unfit to produce. We go down.

But we go down as Wet Boot, stupid grins on our faces.