DMZ's and Horror Shows

People ask me if it's hard to write a negative review. I don't think of them as negative or positive, but rather, the story of my dining experience on any given night. If bad or unfavourable things happen, that becomes part of the review--if I only wrote about the good things, well then that would be an ad and not a review, right?
I find it truly difficult to tell the tale not when the restaurant is truly outstanding, and not when it's a horror show, but when it lies somewhere in the middle, the dreaded mediocre zone (DMZ).
I really know I've eaten in a DMZ restaurant when I can't remember thing about the meal two days later. And if I can't remember it, I won't go back. Don't ask me to name any of these DMZ restaurants--I won't be able to recall.
Now the Horror Show dining room, the ones where the experience was so horrific that it's etched permanently in my brain--those I can sink my teeth into. And I will return to those, just to see if anything changes; sadly, it usually hasn't.