Moi: Do you have a minute? I have two questions for you.
Whitecastle: Just questions, no comment this time?
Moi: Huh? No, just two questions.
Whitecastle: No smart remarks? No wise cracks?
Moi: Oh. No. I don't know what you're talking about. I work very hard and never make smart comments... Why are you laughing? Could you please stop laughing? I have real questions!
Walking back from Stop & Shop today, lunch in hand, I see one of our fellows in the hallway. We don't really know each other and exchange curt greetings. But a few seconds after we pass each other, I hear him stop, turn around, and exclaim, "Wait, were those Jamaican meat pies?" By then, we had walked too far apart for me to respond. But it was my favorite moment of the day. And they sure were Jamaican meat pies. Patties are my lunch of choice when I'm too lazy to bring anything and too cheap to buy real food. It's unfortunate that the Stop & Shop kind falls quite short of others I've tasted, but hey, at least they try. (I think the problem is that they make their own instead of ship them sketchily up from Jamaica the way Ada's does.)
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