intransitive verb:
1. To raise trivial or frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
2. To raise trivial objections to.
3. A trivial or frivolous objection.
Cavil comes from Latin cavillari, “to jeer, to quibble,” from cavilla, “scoffing.”
This might be me cavilling….
Our little island is known for a few things, greenery in the form of trees and bills, but lots of good restaurants….not so much. We’re even on an island and have NO actual seafood place.
So I should have expected this. I was tired, he had been working, and we ordered take-out last night. Pizza and chopped salad.
The pizza was OK. Kinda cold and stiff. Not great, but not BAD, per se.
The salad, however, was NOT CHOPPED. WHY put a salad on the menu with the name “chopped salad” and then have pieces of lettuce big enough for making wraps? Big enough to cover my Kid’s head?!
We wondered if it was a typo, and they meant to say “unchopped salad.”
People, chop the frickin’ lettuce. Is this so hard?
And what, besides lettuce was included in the salad, you ask. Wellllll, not much. A few walnuts and a few small, flat squares of cheese and salami. That’s it. No other veggies, no diced items of any kind. For $7, wouldn’t you expect a little more for a chopped salad? I’m picturing olives, salami, cheese, peppers, maybe even, oh gosh, celery or cucumbers or sumthang crazy like that.
At this rate, I’ll be COOKING dinner every night when the alternative is just so SAD. We’ll have taco Monday, taco Tuesday, taco Thursday with a day of leftover tacos tossed in.
Which, finally, brings me to the ongoing debate of this household: tip or not tip for take-out??
If you know me, you know I’m cheap, so guess where I come out on it? How about you?
Do you tip or not tip?
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in 1983, I’d had a similar birthing experience at Seattle’s Swedish Hospital. Although the machine that went “PING!” must have been on mute. 
