{"id":7139,"date":"2010-01-20T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2014-10-05T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:01:53","slug":"a-stranger-buys-my-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-stranger-buys-my-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stranger Buys My Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a day of errands.\u00a0 I went to the bank, the post office, to Office Depot, to The Waterman, to the produce stand for carrots, celery, scallions and mushrooms. On the way home, I went to the new Thai Thai House on Palm Bay Road at Hammock Landing<\/a> for an early lunch.\u00a0 I had their volcano roll, which is a California roll with baked seafood “dynamite”<\/a> on top, and a cup of miso soup. Only one other diner was in there – it was only 11:15am – and so we talked as we ate. He’s down here helping out his grandparents and is job hunting.\u00a0 It was his first Thai food experience. When my dish came, I placed a portion on a separate plate and shared with him so he could taste an extra dish. He was young, maybe 30.\u00a0 I was going to secretly buy his lunch on my way out. He left first and secretly bought mine! And what a cool kid.<\/p>\n

I wrote on Facebook, “What a cool kid, he read my mind.\u00a0 Yeah, read my mind and – typical man – got it backwards.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Patricia L Bell wrote: “Animal totem – cougar hmm maybe a match made in heaven. Enjoy the vision. Good company, good food can’t ask for anything better!”<\/p>\n

David Marchand wrote: “Interesting, you like to describe him as KID, but as you know we are all ageless. WE all knew each other from a spirit plane, before we walk our first steps here on this plane……… Shall we dance???”<\/p>\n

I agree with David, who I know in real life; it is interesting to see in retrospect I referred to him as a kid.\u00a0 I think I have fallen into that habit of referring to anyone who is young enough to be my spawn as a kid.\u00a0 That might seem disrespectful.\u00a0 Kind of like when 20 year olds “ma’am” us or when young restaurant servers call us “honey”.\u00a0 No harm meant, just automatic phrases we’ve heard for years.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to watch that in the future. Not calling someone younger a kid.\u00a0 Not referring to age at all.\u00a0 But I guess in this case, had he been someone my age, I would not have thought to secretly buy his lunch.\u00a0 Hmmm, I wonder why that matters.<\/p>\n

And no, I’m not a cougar!\u00a0 I think he just thought I was a cool old chick.<\/p>\n

Oh heck, there I did it again.<\/p>\n

Andrea<\/p>\n

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