 Diane and Carla have a bet about who can make the most tips in one evening, the tips a measure of who is the better waitress. Even giving her a $10 head start, Carla is $9 ahead with 1 minute to go, however a last minute $20 tip puts Diane over the edge. Diane is elated, but Carla is crushed by the defeat and mopes around for weeks, the only thing she tells Diane that will get her over the funk is Diane admitting she cheated. Although she didn t, Diane does admit to such just to put Carla in a better mood. However, Carla now won t let Diane off the hook for the fact that "she cheated". Regardless, they may be losing one of if not their best customer, namely Norm. Norm, who just landed a new job, had to take a physical for such, and the x-ray showed a spot on his chest. He questions his mortality and what little he s accomplished in his life. Later, he luckily finds out that the spot was just an error. He breathes a big sigh of relief but still does question what he s accomplished in his life. He now wants to stop and smell the roses. Ultimately, he decides to quit his new job and live his fantasy life: to sail to Bora Bora on a cargo ship and live in a hut on the beach for the rest of his and Vera s lives. To everyone s amazement, he actually goes through with it. After he s gone for a few weeks, letters from Norm coming pouring into the bar about how great a time he s having living his dream life. But lo and behold, as Sam is sitting in his office one afternoon, Norm comes wandering out from the office s back room. Apparently, he chickened out: he never even got on the boat, gave a series of letters to a sailor to mail on his behalf from Bora Bora, and has been living in Sam s office for the past week. He is apprehensive about going back to face everyone in the bar since he made such a big deal about living this dream life. Sam does talk him into going out and facing everyone, but just as he is about ready to go out, they overhear Cliff and the gang talk about how great a man Norm is for living his life to the fullest in Bora Bora. They all express how much they admire him for doing this, never having respected him before. But then they find out that he is hiding in the office. They are all mad at him and he refuses to come out. Diane finally is the voice of reason and says to him, "Everyone has had a dream they let slip away". One by one, they all tell him of their life dream that they let slip away. It isn t until it s Cliff s turn that Norm finally decides to come out, only because Cliff s dream was that much more humiliating. What are best friends for?!