I’m not a fan of Applebees, or places like it. See, in my mind, these places aren’t restaurants - they’re glorified bars that also serve food. Their primary goal isn’t to serve you dinner, it’s to get you to buy higher margin drinks and appetizers. And I don’t get into the whole flair thing.
Lunch today was at a small local restaurant. It was pretty crowded - mostly men. A lot of Cummins engineers (you can tell by the shirts they wear), some factory workers, and a couple of high school students.
In walks a group of four more Cummins engineers, one of which is a tall, skinny, well-dressed attractive woman.
At this point, I notice that a lot of people in there are casually glancing at her every chance they get. I start people watching all of the other folks in there, and I see that most of the men will sneak a peek to take a look at her every 10-15 seconds.
Now, she has to know this is going on, right? Is it just something that women put up with? I’m sure she’s used to being in a position where she’s surrounded by lots of men (innuendos aside, I can’t think of a more appropriate way to phrase that). It was an interesting observation, to say the least. The ‘casual’ observations were very blatant in many cases. I’m quite certain that if there weren’t societal implications against it, some of the guys probably would have gone over and started sniffing her like canines do.
Anyway, definitely made my lunch more interesting.
Shortly after we moved in I realized that our electrical service was only 100 Amp service.
Last night, Caleb and I had the following conversation:
Me: [Male co-worker] has decided to go to the hacking class with me on Thursday.
Caleb: Are you riding with him?
Me: Huh? Sure am. …uh…what are you talking about?…oh, yeah.
A few hours later…
Me: It’s OK if I ride with [male co-worker] ’cause he’s gay!
One lesson I have learned from my grandparents is that travel is very important.