Mother’s day is coming up and now that I am once again working in the food service industry I am remembering the busyness that happens. Today, answering the phone at my place of employment, I was asked many times about making reservations for lunch on Sunday.  When I communicated that we were not open for lunch, the conversation quickly ended.  I want to know why Mother’s day is lunch or brunch?  Why, when showing mothers appreciation is it delegated to midday?  Having no way of discovering a real answer I thought I could come up with some of my own…

You appreciate her, but you appreciate her making you supper more.

You want to spend time with her, but only a lunch-ish amount not a whole evening.

Lunch/brunch is more economical (I really meant cheaper, but I was trying to be diplomatic)

Less potential for alcohol to be involved (kind of, sort of, most likely…maybe)

Your mother’s alter ego comes out after dark and is best left behind closed doors.

Everyone knows nothing says ‘Appreciation’ like taking your mother out to lunch, packed in with hundreds of others who take their mothers out annually.  So instead of actually spending quality time together, you are stressed about getting to the restaurant on time, shoehorned together with a bunch of other people who have drunk the same kool-aid as you, unable to converse because of the roar of multiple quiet conversations, and then spat out on the other side having occupied the same space, unconnected.   Hmm, maybe this needs a re-think.