We had a member who recently resigned from the club who had a staggering ability to glean more than anyone else from the club, but pay the least for it!
Most people have heard of the saying, "How do rich people stay rich? by holding on to every penny!"
We will call him Mr. Berry. He was a tall and robust gentleman who would require a lot of calories to maintain his size. In order to garner this number of calories while spending next to nothing; he had to get creative. He would come in to the club several days a week for lunch and sit at the joiners table; where business men & women would come if they didn't have a lunch date.
We have a popular fruit plate on the menu which comes with several options of accompaniments like sorbet, chicken or tuna salad and cottage cheese etc. You may be thinking, not many calories possible here... but just wait and see what determination and cunning can get you.
Upon sitting down he would first ask for a plate of lemon wedges and make a bee line for the sugar caddy. It had also better be full, otherwise by his second refill of water he would have you running for more. That was his lemonade set for lunch... no money spent yet!
Next was time to ask for an over sized basket of popcorn, and keep it comin'... still nothing spent!
But none of these warm up freebies could prepare you for his big plans for lunch.
He would then order one of the famous club fruit plates, but with his exceptional twist. "I'll take half the fruit in a container to go", knowing we would give him an overall larger portion of fruit. It would look weak and non club-like on the plate otherwise.
Next he would have tuna salad with it, BUT, "I'll take half of it to go... and can you put it between a piece of bread; what ever bread you have hanging around!"
Again he would get a larger scoop of tuna salad and he now had a tuna sandwich to eat later! Last was his sorbet. "Raspberry please, but I don't want it on the fruit plate; I will take it for dessert."
Normally when it was scooped for the fruit plate it would be a small single scoop in a ramekin, but he learned that if it was called into the kitchen as dessert it was delivered as two large scoops of sorbet.
Before we presented him with his "to go" platter he would ask us to stuff as much popcorn into the to go box as we could crush.
Overall for lunch he enjoyed a free drink and about $15 worth of popcorn (if he was at the movie theatre.) He would have a full fruit plate with tuna salad and raspberry sorbet for dessert. Then in the middle of the afternoon when his blood sugar would dip a little, he could have it all over again, at no extra charge!
Why would he be allowed to do this, you may ask? Well the member is always right and... That is the country club life!
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