Before you even understand your surroundings, the waiter puts a big dish of weird looking stew at your table._x000D_
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"What is this?", you ask  _x000D_
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"It's free", the waiter answers._x000D_
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"Can I order something else?"_x000D_
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"You can't afford anything here, you better eat this stew"_x000D_
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"Ok.."_x000D_
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You stare at the stew for a few moments. At first it doesn't look like anything, then it looks like something you might eat.._x000D_
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You take a bite. It's .. ok? There's nothing that you can compare it to that comes to mind._x000D_
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You take another bite, it's not as good._x000D_
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Another one, even worse._x000D_
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By the seventh byte you're sure - this dish is awful._x000D_
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You call the waiter._x000D_
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"I'd like to return this stew"

"And get what instead? Nothing else here is free"

"Ok, then I'd like to leave"

"Just finish your stew"

"But I hate it"

"You're barely a quarter of the way through, if you'll stop now you'll never know if it gets better"

"I'm pretty sure the rest of it will be the same or worse"

"You can't prove it won't be better, other people are enjoying it"

"Other people have different tastes, and..", you look around and notice, "they're eating different dishes".

"I can assure you, it's all almost the same, and they hate part of their dishes too"

"I hate all of it. I don't want to get it better, I want to leave"

"Well, I wouldn't recommend it."

"Why?"

"For starters, if you leave you can't go back. No more free dishes or any dishes."

"Fine, I'll leave and won't come back"

"You don't know what our there. Plus there's,, the Chef"

"The Chef?",, 

"He made the dishes, and I heard rumors that if people leave without finishing the meal with a smile, he goes after them and hurts them"

"He does?"

"I can't tell you for sure, but a lot of people say so, and when he hurts you I heard it's real bad"

"So even some of the people smiling here could actually just be scared of the Chef"

"And some are really smiling"

"Ok, I'll take my chance, I'm leaving"

"Well, be careful of the floor. It's really slippery, if you try to leave you might slip, break your leg, and have to finish your meal in pain" 

"You won't let me out even then?" 

"No" 

"Ok fine. What can I do to make the dish better?" 

"You can cook something" 

"Cook? I don't have a kitchen here" 

"Just pretend? We might send you a kitchen later" 

"Anything else? Condiments or sauces?" 

"You can have salt"

"Does it make it better?" 

"Some people don't feel it at all, for some people it makes them better and for others, it just makes everything taste like salt" 

"Fine."

You slowly eat your salty stew, it's more tolerable. You look around you, tables that are full with people with diverse meals, people eating alone but are satisfied, and others, are just like you. Slowly waiting to get out, eating a terrible stew, with no end in sight.