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That was not even the funniest incident that happened on that visit to Epcot Center. The even FUNNIER incident began when we were at the show put on at the USA pavillion. It featured those mechanical robots made up to look like real people---Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, etc.. As we were walking out after the show, my father exclaimed about how the actors had really great makeup on to make them look like the characters they were portraying. I replied that those weren't live actors but robots. My father declared that they were actors and a big argument broke out between us. We were ANGRILY yelling at each other about whether they were robots or real people. So I told my father to ask an employee what they were. He did so and was completely AMAZED to discover they were robots. He absolutely couldn't get over it.

Well, a short while later we were on one of the indoor boat rides looking at various exhibits. Just before the end of the boat ride we entered a canal going thru a darkened Mexican restaurant. I turned to my father and said, "If you think those USA exhibit robots were great, these Mexican exhibit robots are even better." My credulous father slapped his bald head and declared, "INCREDIBLE! The AMAZING things that robots can do nowadays!!!" Well, for the rest of the day, neither I nor my mother let on that the people in the darkened Mexican restaurant were indeed real.

And now for the ULTIMATE clincher to this story. It happened years ago and neither my mother nor me EVER told my father the truth. To this day he still believes he saw robots in the Mexican exhibit restaurant. And when he hears that people are visiting Epcot Center, he always urges them to visit the Mexican restaurant exhibit to view the incredibly lifelike robots. Nope, we never did tell my father the truth. It's like a great running joke that goes on and on and on.