The Kitchen Table Family Restaurant!

 Seldom do my family and I get to see each other just for fun. Errands, Holidays, Birthdays; those are the times I see my family. Scheduled and time restrained. But, today was not such a day. It was a lovely, bright and sunny Sunday afternoon that I spent with my mother and my two nieces: Lilli and Ariana.   

Around 1pm today my mother, with my nieces tagging along, came to pick me up. We decided we were hungry and went to the best new little Mom and Pop place- The Kitchen Table Family Restaurant, on the corner of Amherst Street and Elmwood Ave, in Buffalo, NY. Let me just say, this place is fantastic. Every time I have the money to eat out, I come here. Everything is homemade and delectable. They started out just serving hamburgers, hotdogs and fries (and let me say something about these fries: They are, by far, the best homemade French fries I’ve ever had in my life!), but it has much progressed into a plethora different menu items. All sorts of sandwiches; tuna, turkey melt and club, fried fish sandwiches, though I’ve yet to try them all, I have no doubt they are as delicious as every other item I have ordered. Their fish fry, served on Friday’s and Saturday’s, is the best thing (other than their homemade potato salad and fries) on the menu. The Kitchen Table now serves breakfast all day long! How many other places do you know, other than chain restaurants, which do breakfast from 7am till 9pm?! I don’t believe I am doing this place justice with writing this. I think everyone should come try it out. It’s a little hidden treasure. Did I mention the ice cream and slushies they serve all year long? No more will you be let down when your favorite ice cream parlor closes for the winter!

 I think, even though the food is the best I’ve had in a while in the Buffalo area, the owner and his employees take the cake.  If you even need a smile to brighten your day, just come down to Elmwood and Amherst and walk in The Kitchen Table! Quick to a joke, a friendly demeanor and just all over good people who work here are sure to brighten your days.

Maybe you’re thinking, what’s the catch? Well, there is none. The prices are the cheapest you will find in Buffalo and surrounding areas. The final word is that you need to check this place out! I am actually sitting in The Kitchen Table as I write this, drinking coffee and an AMP (I’m a caffeine junky, I know) and using their fast and FREE WiFi!

 As this place is new, and not many people know of it yet, the turn-over is still rather slow for how wonderful it is. I hope, my readers, that you take a little trip to The Kitchen Table Family Restaurant! Trust me, it’s worth the drive. Lucky for me, it’s right across the street from my apartment. 

Confrontation

The human mind is often so complex we are unaware of how we react the way we do: in one such instance, the anger that comes from being confronted by a fault of one’s own. This has often occurred in my life, directly affecting me. I will calmly tell a person that they have hurt my feelings by an action of their own, and be rebuffed with an immense amount of anger and resentment.

Why is it that when you confront someone on their wrong –doings that they must point out all of your own faults and mistakes.  It doesn’t seem quite far to me that when I am being calm with someone (or, in cases, someone is being calm with me- for I am not devoid of fault in this) they rebuttal with accusations and harsh words, often yelling that can be accompanied by profanity. I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or one of any profession of the sort- but I have studied much psychology, in college and on my own. I am uncertain if this behavior is sociological or psychological. It seems to me to be a bit of both.

Most people have experienced this behavior on one end or the other of their life- Which leads me to believe it is a social pattern. However, when you think on the psyche, this behavior is a model of repression, projection and guilt.

Sociologically, this may be a repeat pattern, from person to person- from friends, families and neighbors. If the group of people you are surrounded by act in a certain way, you are most definitely apt to respond in kind. The only way the pattern can be broken is if one person or more persons choose to negate from the set path. That goes for any social pattern.

The person being confronted is often left floundering for an excuse for their poor behavior, wanting to blame everything – everyone- but themselves.  That leads to the person projecting their feelings of guilt onto the person confronting them. As humans, we are highly emotional and tend to overreact on the smallest matters. Such is the nature of our existence.  It takes a trained mind to remain rational when you have done something you know to be wrong but don’t want to admit to it. We tend to fight it with every fiber of our being, like a survival instinct. 

What I want to go is how we solve the problem of being overly emotional. I know it is natural to have emotions, but how to keep them under control if when pointing out (kindly) the fault in people only makes them more irate? 

-Ashley Lang