Causing a Scene

"Going up?"

Fitting more than three people in this elevator can be a real challenge. I guess I never really thought about the size of elevators before, but the smallness of this one cannot be ignored.

So for those of you that know me pretty well, you know that I like my diet soda. Well, it's not diet here, it's Coca Cola light. It's similar to Pepsi One, with one calorie. I really like it, I don't think I can go back to diet! Anyway, the point of me telling you that is because yesterday was the first day someone got really upset with me, and it was over Coke light. We went to CarreFour (equivalent of Target, but more like a mini-mall) and I went to get one of these delicious sodas from a pizza shop. I asked her for a regular (for Marc) and a light. So she rings me up for it, I pay for it, and they only bring me the coke light. So I tell her I want a regular one too, she rings it up on the register and then brings me another coke light. I'm trying to explain to her that I want regular, the blue can, but they keep saying they don't have it. Then someone else comes over and explains to me that the blue can is Pepsi Max, and it's more like diet with no calories, no sugar, etc. So, then I ask for the fountain one because I can see that it's there (and I know it is because Marc got one a couple days ago), but they keep insisting that they don't have it. So, finally, I'm like, "then I don't want it". The woman at the register starts yelling and is probably cursing me out in Romanian. Way to cause a scene Katie, like I don't stick out like a sore thumb in the first place. So I just walk away and pretend like nothing happened. Slick.

I ate authentic Romanian food for the first time last night and it was pretty good. I had sausages and fries. They put like a grated cheese on their fries (not melted) and it's awesome. I tried Marya's carne musaka which is kind of like a meat and potato pie and that was pretty good too. We also did a shot of some kind of bottom shelf Romanian liquor that they give to you before your meal. Let's just say it's definitely bottom shelf. Ew. Oh, and I won't give you full details, but let's just say the female waitstaff were very friendly.

Gotta get to work, but first an update on the dogs...one full-tilt charged Marya this morning on our way to the subway. It looked like he was about to tackle her, but he stopped and just kind of sniffed. A little scary. We've named the dog behind our apartment Cujo, he's ok in the morning on our way to work but walking back home is a crap shoot. Last night we started to take the longer, more well lit path to avoid him, but I think Marc is a little upset :)