They went to restaurants because they hated doing the washing up. They always followed the same rule: they would never order for themselves. At first they would just pick for each other from the menu. Soon they were asking strangers to choose for them. One time they invited another couple to join them at their table and they all ordered for each other and now they sometimes go bowling together at weekends.
They had one favourite restaurant, where the waiters and waitresses knew not to even give them a menu. The chef would be told of their arrival, and he would prepare their secret, special dishes. He had their permission to create whatever he wanted, neither had peanut allergies and both quite liked seafood. Soon the restaurant got rid of the menus completely, every guest followed the same rule, it was the chef who decided what they would eat. Every single plate was returned to the kitchen clean, there was never a single word of complaint.
They always read the same book at the same time. Next to each other on the settee they would turn the pages as one. They had a four poster bed. Once they had a pillow fight, and rose petals fluttered over the bed instead of feathers. When they ran the bath, champagne came from the taps, despite being connected only to a water tank. The plumber was baffled.

Comments
insertponceyfre... | August 16, 2010 - 06:41
I like the way this starts off slightly eccentric, and then gets more and more bizarre as it goes along
russiandoll | August 16, 2010 - 11:30
The last two sentences of this felt a bit disconnected for me but other than that I really liked it and had a lot of imagery building up relating to this very likeable couple.
Great work :)
Cavalcaderl | August 16, 2010 - 21:29
New mcmanaman
Really like this, quite funny.
But it could really happen, don't
you think all getting our own secret
foods. Great.
Julie x
o-bear | August 17, 2010 - 18:45
at first my only thought after reading this was that it was rather strange, senseless, self-indulgent nonsense (especially the last paragraph)... yet after some thought i realized that it's also a vivid and successful unshackling of the subconscious channeled into interesting writing, which i something to be commended, so i decided to commend you.
maggyvaneijk | August 17, 2010 - 21:12
I love the wonderful mix of realism and just plain bizarre. The casual narration is great as well, especially: "They told him to create whatever he wanted, neither had peanut allergies and both quite liked seafood"