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06 October 2006

MeCha Dream! I had a dream my company was starting an outdoor restaurant near Union Square, and occhiblu was going to be our hostess.→[More:]It wasn't even like we were going to hire her- it was discussed as though she already worked with us and was gonna be great the running this restaurant we were opening. Very strange (maybe suggested by that thread on customer service, occhi?).

I also had a separate dream where Dustin Diamond was going to give me a ride to school, but I couldn't find my math book.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 09:15 | 19 comments

I also had a separate dream where Dustin Diamond was going to give me a ride to school, but I couldn't find my math book.

Considering Dustin's recent escapades, Freud would have a field day.

*ducks*

posted by jonmc 06 October | 09:36

Can I get a table for two Saturday night, say 8:30? Near the waterfall...?

posted by Pips 06 October | 10:00

I'm pretty sure the restaurant was on a traffic island on 5th Avenue, right near Union Square.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 October | 10:08

And pips, you'll have to talk to occhiblu about that :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 October | 10:09

*slips occhiblu a twenty*

Try the pumpkin bisque with fra gras...

posted by Pips 06 October | 10:18

Hee. Does "fra gras" make it fat friars? Cuz that sounds good.

*takes the twenty regardless of the answer*

posted by occhiblu 06 October | 11:21

Also, when I was little, I always used to pretend that I was a restaurant hostess. Or receptionist in a doctor's office. (Ahhh, feminism.)

I liked taking down people's names and making them wait, I guess.

posted by occhiblu 06 October | 11:22

I think that makes sense. Not to say these were occhiblu's perceptions in particular, but to a kid, hostesses and receptionists have a kind of tangible power that, say, lawyers and stock brokers don't seem to have.

I recently rode an elevator in a library, and there was a kid in there pretending to be the elevator operator, announcing each floor and asking people for their destinations. I wanted to say, Dude, you seem smart, raise the bar. But then I remembered doing very similar things myself. Elevator operators have a discernible function in the world, something that it's easy for a little boy to imagine himself doing.

posted by bingo 06 October | 12:06

I'd still like to be an elevator operator. Going up and down all day couldn't be any more boring than what I do now. Plus they'd prolly give me a spiffy uniform.

posted by jonmc 06 October | 12:08

I agree with what you're saying, bingo, but it seems like "doctor" and "chef" probably are fairly tangible. :-)

I thinked I just liked lining up my stuffed animals and making them wait while I organized their schedules and then crossed their names off the list. Oh, the power!

posted by occhiblu 06 October | 12:50

you were their plüschenführer.

posted by jonmc 06 October | 12:54

Did they serve raspberry ginger ale?

posted by terrapin 06 October | 12:55

RASPBERRY GINGER ALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had one last night, it made me sooooooooo happy.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 October | 13:06

:)

Someone nice send you some, huh?

posted by terrapin 06 October | 13:09

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 October | 13:15

When I was a kid, there was an elevator operator in Ogilvy's (department store) who got to wear a kilt to work every day.

The same store hired a piper to walk the floors at the end of the day to announce closing time.

posted by tangerine 06 October | 14:44

When I was a kid, there was an elevator operator in Ogilvy's (department store) who got to wear a kilt to work every day.

Did he have to wear anything underneath? If not, are they hiring?

posted by jonmc 06 October | 14:47

I agree with what you're saying, bingo, but it seems like "doctor" and "chef" probably are fairly tangible.

Indeed...my dad is a doctor, and to young me, it was clear that being a doctor meant getting up in the middle of the night or leaving family outings suddenly to go to work. And my parents' friends were always so surprised when they asked me if I was going to be a doctor like my daddy, and I said no way.

posted by bingo 07 October | 11:08

Heh. I had the same view of doctors, though that was from watching The Cosby Show. I at one point told my mother that I would never date a doctor because they were never home. :-)

posted by occhiblu 07 October | 16:17

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