I took the kids to see Ella Enchanted this evening. They really liked it, so mission accomplished. It was a cute fairy tale, although they recognized bits of Shrek, The Princess Bride, and Cinderella in it. Good to see Eric Idle again, playing the narrator. And Carey Elwes plays sort of the opposite type of character he played in Princess Bride.
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I enjoyed a lovely Italian Beef at Portillo's. While I was sitting there, listening to the guy behind me hacking up a lung, I realized that when I eat in restaurants I always face the door. At first I thought it was some alpha-thing, and then I remembered where it came from.
When I was at UIC, I had a friend named Karen who lived in one of the rougher neighborhoods of Chicago. Sometimes we'd have lunch at one of the restaurants on Taylor Street, and one day I sat with my back to the door. She told me that her boyfriend René (a CTA bus driver) always faced the door "because you never know." Being the naïve suburban kid I was, I asked "'You never know' what?" She looked at me very seriously and said, "Because... you never know."
So for whatever reason, since that day in 1982, I always sit facing the door. 'Cause you never know.
Posted by jtl at April 10, 2004 08:17 PM