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January 17, 2005
my favorite waiter
d. and i have been eating at the same thai restaurant for years. we have our on times and our off times but we always go back.
for a while there was this waiter. he was different from anyone else they had working there. he was sure of himself. he was intelligent. he was one of the best waiters i've ever seen working. i can't imagine anything causing him to become visibly distressed or flustered in front of a patron.
i liked him, though, because he was very, very cute, and would always bring me two vegetarian spring rolls, with sauce, instead of soup and one meat spring roll. he would hook me up. i love spring rolls. i loved that he did this. no one else there would do that.
and then he was gone. the food got worse. the lady who runs the place looked sick, although she was still always there, every day. the few times we ate there then, the place was dead. no one there. those were the dark days of the thai restaurant.
it's better now. the lady looks good again and she smiles her little mona lisa smile. they have a buffet that kicks ass. i can have all the spring rolls i want. the room almost gets full at lunch. and one day, years after he left, he was back, our favorite waiter.
was there a glimmer of recognition? hard to tell. he's still the best waiter ever, even with a buffet. d. said, "you should chat him up." but he seemed down today. and the lady wasn't there. after we walked out i said, i think he's their son maybe. d. agreed. and i said, i wonder if their family was affected by the tsunami. and d. said that it probably was.
Posted by lisa at January 17, 2005 09:30 PM | TrackBack
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