Archive for August 15th, 2006
Swarm of WASPs
Last Sunday, Cindy and I found ourselves in the middle of a swarm of WASPs. We had decided to have brunch at a little place in town that serves up some pretty tasty food, but when we showed up at 10:00 AM, the place was closed. Curse those dirty, lyin’ fuckers and their crappy-ass lyin’ piece-o-shit website!
We wanted to try someplace new, so I suggested Anne Stuart’s Food-a-teria (not the real name) because we had heard from a bunch of people over the years that the food was really good, blah blah blah. It didn’t open until 11:00 AM, so we killed 45 minutes at Border’s, and arrived back at the food-a-teria at 11:15 AM.
The place had been open for only 15 minutes and already the line was long. Two minutes after we arrived, the line grew another 10 feet to the doors. We looked up and down the line, and even peeked over the little wall at the dining area. We thought, Wow! The food here must be really good to attract all these people.
Wait a second! What’s wrong with this picture? Look up and down the line, over the wall.
All these…white…people.
Can that be right? Look around again. Yep, that’s right. The only ethnic faces are line servers and wait staff. Okay, that’s kind of creepy.
And something else was creepy. Cindy and I were the youngest couple there, and the only young couple without kids. The others were just old folks. And everyone looked like they had just come from church. I say “looked like” because I’ve never been to a church that let out early enough so you could drive across town and be in line at 11:00 AM when the doors to your favorite Sunday eatery opened.
We got way too much food, and couldn’t eat most of it. But I can say that, yes, the food is good.
As we were eating, Cindy looked around the room and at the long line of people, and noted the constant stream of new arrivals.
“Don’t you feel odd being here?” she asked.
“Why? Because I’m the only young guy in the room not wearing an Izod shirt? And we’re probably the only people that didn’t come here directly from church? Or that everyone is white white?”
“Yeah.”
“I think if this place only served mayonnaise, these people would be okay with it.”
“Just look around.”
“I can’t, I’ll go snow blind.”
