Hostess With The Mostest
Categories: LifeI walked into the restaurant for a nice quiet lunch with an interesting book. The hostess smiled and asked “Smoking or non-smoking?”
“Non-smoking,” I answered
She said, “I know you always say that, but I still ask you every time, don’t I.”
I’d only been in that restaurant twice before, and the last time was at least a month ago. Either she mistook me for someone else, or she has one hell of a memory. She walked me through the dining room to a good booth.
As I was sliding into the seat, the hostess apparently noticed my paperback book, and asked, “So what are you reading this week?”
I held the book face so she could see it: Panzer Commander [an autobiography of a WWII German Wehrmacht officer].
“Oh,” she said, “a war movie.”
I was slightly confused — a war movie?
“Ah, yeah,” I said. I wasn’t sure whether to comment on the obviously incorrect term. (I’m not good at the chit chat.)
She continued, “I like smut movies, myself.” She smiled, turned, and left me with that.
Both my eyebrows were raised as I watched her walk away. What the hell did that mean? I thought. So . . . many . . . things . . . weird.
Between the remembering me, to calling a book a movie, to mentioning smut — someone tell me what the heck happened.
Bullgrit
i would swear i have read this before….are you cheating?
For the sake of my marriage, please explain that you mean cheating at writing posts. No, this isn’t a repeat — you’re thinking of the April 10th, 2009 post. Similar, but different.
Apparently I have this affect on restaurant chicks. :-D
its the crossover between the fictional thoughts of entertainment, when now a day there are so many books popping up that were written long before the movie but they put a new cover on it and everyone associates it with a movie. Not to mention a lot of the “smut” she likes is due to the fact that novels by Nora Roberts for instance are being turned into series and television movies, etc. As for how she remembers you, that’s either a confusion with someone else or she thinks you are cute
OMG it is really sad that I just typed all that…trust me I’m a horror flick girl not a trashy romance chic
we all know you are not cheating on cowgrit….i’m sure she knows what i’m talkng about….she is pretty smart you know, she went to college a lot longer than you did….