Today I was having lunch with my girlfriend, Miriam, at the deli near work.<\/p>\n
There are two small tables with a few chairs flanking the main entrance. At one table sat a pleasant looking man in his 50s; the other table was empty save for a bottle of Sobe.<\/p>\n
As we placed our lunch on the seeming empty table a woman came outside and said to us, “Excuse me, I was sitting there.” She sat down and was later joined by another woman, neither one of them said a word to each other the entire time.<\/p>\n
OK, OK, no problem. I picked up our things and was looking to sit elsewhere when the man sitting alone said, “You can sit here with me, if you like.”<\/p>\n
And so we did.<\/p>\n
We smiled and laughed and chatted as we ate our meals. The man was very nice and had led an interesting life. His descriptions of Colorado had us mesmerized.<\/p>\n
And when the conversation turned towards, “Where are you from?” the man let us know that he was from Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
“I knew you weren’t from California,” I said. The man smiled and asked me how I could have known that.<\/p>\n
“Because you offered to let us sit at your table.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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