Cutlery

Who don't they give you cutlery at some restaurants until after you've ordered. The people behind me at Grind (our favourite - most wonderful - brekkie spot in Norton Street, Leichhardt) may have provided part of the answer this morning. "Go and tell them that we want breakfast" mother said to young child, and then started chanting sotto voce "we want breakfast; we want breakfast". Obviously it would have been more compelling if they had been banging on the table with cutlery at the time - as has been seen in a movie or two, usually sent in prisons - and on the TV series Super Nanny. Thank heavens they didn't have any!