Friday blues

I've been in bed pretty much all day with a migraine. On top of that, I couldn't fall asleep last night until 4 am. I've been having a lot of problems sleeping lately. I can't fall asleep, and then when I finally do I have really vivid dreams that keep me from fully relaxing. I'm sure the caffeine in my migraine medication didn't help, either.

So I didn't leave the house today until after 6 pm, when I went for a walk on Rue Daguerre to get some air. I decided tonight I'd get some takeout sushi, and try one of the many Japanese places on my block. I've been cooking nonstop, and couldn't face the thought of chopping yet another onion in my current state.

After comparing prices at the three relatively similar Japanese places, I picked the cheapest one and went in. While studying the menu, the female owner starting SCREAMING at her kid, who was absolutely hysterical. She was telling him to eat more, and he was saying he couldn't eat any more, and she was just going nuts on him. I found the whole thing so upsetting that I handed the menu back to her husband, and said I couldn't eat there. He looked shocked, as if a mother verbally abusing her child in front of customers (or at all, for that matter) is totally normal, and told me to get out.

I went to the most expensive place after that (the price difference being all of about 1€50 for a menu), where I was greeted with a complimentary cocktail and given the choice between a free soda or free dessert. The fish looks very fresh, if a bit unimaginatively presented, and they gave me a little loyalty card. I'm a total sucker for those things.

So it looks like I definitely made the right choice, but I still feel awful about that little boy. I'm glad I didn't give them my business, but now I'm wondering if the kid will get in trouble for costing them a customer, even though in my mind it was the mother who was the problem, and not the kid.

Meh.